@PennyRoyal Wow, nice setup! Do you also have a buffered tuner or some other buffer? Did you try putting that in front of everything, so as the first pedal?
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It’s about 10 years of extremely poor impulse control… sounds great though. The switcher has a separate tuner out, and a switchable buffer, which is (hopefully, I’ll check) on.
@PennyRoyal What kind of switcher is it? And did you try swapping the Joyo UD with something similar?
I’ll chuck an SD1 in and see what happens. It’s the fact it behaves as expected in one amp but not the other that throws me, while everything else does what it should, and the split is outside of the switcher. Like the fuzz, which is definitely fussier, does exactly what it should.
The switcher is a bit odd - it’s a Hotone Cybery. It’s a weird little 4-channel thing, only made for a bit, but you can chain a couple of them together to have 8 channels controlled from a relatively small switcher. It’s Bluetooth too, so you can set it all up without grovelling around on the floor.
I tried the SD1, and the same thing happened. Tried switching the buffer, changing cables, all to no avail. I’ve eventually narrowed it down to how the attenuator was working with the Jet City amp. I have no idea why, but when I had everything balanced but the attenuator letting the amp run a bit harder, it just killed the UD/SD. Taking the volume down and pulling the attenuator down brought it back in. Why it only affected the SD or UD, and not the fuzz or Bad Monkey, I have not the faintest. There’s a lot less drive on the Monkey, and a lot, lot more on the fuzz. Anyway, PITA, but solved.