C.<p>Soft switching fell out of favour after this period, too, because it could cause "tone suck". That's a real description; basically, guitarists complained that when their guitar was routed through the pedal to their amplifier, but the effect was disabled via soft switching, it would sound worse - its tone would <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/suck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suck</span></a> - than when they plugged their instrument directly into the amplifier.</p><p>With well-designed and manufactured effects circuits, and with reasonable <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> in the guitar and the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/amplifier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amplifier</span></a>, this shouldn't be much of an issue, if at all. But there were (and are!) lots of badly-designed or badly-manufactured effects pedals out there, and plenty of guitars and amplifiers with stupidly-designed electronics. So it's entirely possible for tone suck to be a real thing - but as with anything audio-related, you would need a double-blind <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/study" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>study</span></a> to determine how much of the effect was real, and how much of it was purely <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/psychological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychological</span></a>.</p><p>So effects generally went back to "true bypass", with physical "stomp switches".</p><p>There is a bunch of stuff in the schematic that exists only to implement the soft switching. We can strip all of that out, too.</p><p>And if you remove both of those sections, you get this.</p><p>3/x</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/suck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suck</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ToneSuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToneSuck</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bypass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bypass</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TrueBypass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrueBypass</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/StompSwitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StompSwitch</span></a></p>