Ok, I’ve been semi-steadily working toward figuring these issues out. I’ll try to keep this a succinct as I can.
Here’s what I know for sure:
1. The Quaverato and the Walrus Monument are the only 2 pedals from my 50+ arsenal that react to the rest of my rig this way (the Monument to a slightly lesser degree)
2. Nothing I do at or anywhere before the Quaverato’s input changes anything.
3. The Quaverato and the PXL are being affected by the Quaverato’s interaction with components post-PXL (DI box and/or mixing board)
4. The symptoms have been drastic volume increase or decrease with the Quaverato in the guitar signal path, and switches popping on the PXL (all depending on what’s in the signal path post PXL).
The only way I’ve been able to reduce these symptoms as much as ive been able, and not end up with a suboptimal routing scheme (really don’t want to run the Quaverato after the PXL. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a loop switcher) is as follows:
Guitar-> PXL (lots of random pedals in all its loops)(Quaverato in loop 8)-> off Boss pedal (after the PXL’s output)-> mixer’s Neutrik 1/4″ channel input. I have a “Y” cable splitting the PXL-> Boss buffer signal to a DI box, before the mixer input.
Omission of the Boss buffer, using the parallel inputs of a DI box as a splitter, placement of the Boss buffer at the Quaveratos output (within the same loop)…all resulted in some form or level of issue (volume jump, volume dip, and/or popping switches).
I enlisted the help of the members of diystompboxes.com forum and the general consensus was that the 100k output pot of the Quaverato causes it to have an unusually high output impedance, which was affecting/interacting with downstream components. I’m not sure that explains why the Monument causes/contributes to the same issues (to a slightly less degree) when it’s output pot is 10k.
Until somewhat recently, I have never been much of a pedal guy. I had no idea these circuits were so sensitive to other things within the same signal chain.
I don’t know if the already high output impedance of the Quaverato, connected to the low impedance input of a mixer causes the overall operational impedance to increase almost exponentially? I also don’t understand why using both parallel inputs of a DI box would cause issues such as drastic decrease in volume, drastic treble rolloff, etc.
I wish I had a better understanding of these things so I could pinpoint the exact cause of the problem and relay that info to you so that you might be able to help other folks, should they ever run into the same weirdness I have.
Anyway, thank you so much for trying to help me get it figured out. I have found a good and practical solution that doesnt involve getting rid of my Quaverato, and I guess that’s what really matters.