Description
Ever notice how stacking certain effects can flatten your tone, thinning out lows or robbing your guitar of its natural punch? The Xotic X-Blender tackles that problem the way pro-audio consoles have for decades: by running an effect on a separate send/return path instead of forcing it to swallow your entire signal.
- Series Mode: Wire an effect between the send and return jacks, flip the switch so the red LED lights and the blue LED stays off, and your pedal sits fully in-line — pure, unbuffered signal path, no active controls in the way.
- Parallel Mode: Same wiring, blend switch engaged. Now the DRY/WET knob takes over, letting you fold your dry guitar signal back in with the effected sound. Great for reviving bass or volume that a modulation or fuzz pedal tends to eat.
Once in blend mode, you also gain a 2-band EQ (Treble/Bass) to shape just the wet signal, a Volume control affecting the combined output, a +6dB Boost switch, and a Phase Invert switch for taming vintage-style wahs or boosters that output an out-of-phase signal.
For pedalboard builders chasing transparency, the X-Blender is less an effect and more a signal-management tool — a way to keep modulation, pitch, or fuzz pedals from muddying your core tone.
- Input impedance: 1M ohm / Output impedance: 1K ohm
- Current draw: 20mA, powered via 9V DC adaptor jack
- 117mm (W) x 93mm (D) x 50mm (H), 0.5kg
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