Somewhere between your guitar and everything else, a little of the signal slips away — some top end here, a little life there. The Tiger Buffer quietly keeps it whole.
It follows the unity-gain buffer Jerry Garcia carried inside his Doug Irwin “Tiger” — the quiet reason his tone stayed clear and present through effects, long cable runs, and very long nights. Sit it first in your chain and it simply takes what your guitar gives it and passes it on, untouched. Every night, every note, the same.
Under the hood, this is John Cutler's design — the circuit itself — built with modern low-noise components chosen to hold their spec instead of drifting with age. Where the original ran an LF356, the Tiger Buffer runs a TL061: on our bench it handled pickup transients even more gracefully than the classic chip, and its very low current draw makes it ideally suited to OBEL rigs.
No knobs. No switches. Nothing to set and nothing to remember — just a prowling tiger burned into the wood, three milliamps of draw, and a signal that arrives exactly the way it left.
