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IK Multimedia Z-TONE Buffer Boost - Pickup Selector Guide; Variable Impedance (Z-TONE) Tone Shaping

IK Multimedia Z-TONE Buffer Boost
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2.2 Pick-Up selector
PICK-UP
Z-TONE Buffer Boost works perfectly with both Passive and Active guitar or bass pickups, having independent
circuitry that suits perfectly both topologies. Passive electric guitar pickups exhibit significantly higher output
impedance than the active counterpart, among other significant tone differences, but neither of the two is
“better” or “worse” than the other: indeed they have different behaviors. To properly couple this diversity of
guitar pickups in the most musically pleasing manner, Z-TONE Buffer Boost offers a pickup selector that allows
the artist to select between Active (when using an active pickup) and Passive (when using a passive pickup).
2.3 Variable impedance (Z-TONE™) control
All passive pickups (being them single coil, humbucker, split, etc..) have a certain sound character that is also
determined by the loading impedance. The Z-TONE™ front control allows you to change the input impedance
on the instrument input therefore allowing for a very creative way of shaping the tone of your instruments.
The beauty of this system is that it allows you to discover tonal shades from your instruments that you never
heard before, by shaping the tone right at the source, within the pickups, instead of what is normally done with
post-processing tools of any kind.