The Xotic X-Blender pedal works much like the Aux Send/Return on a mixing console, providing you with wet/dry mixing on the fly. And by feeding your effects with your guitar's direct signal, X-Blender also preserves your tone's integrity. When you use X-Blender, you'll experience your guitar's tone as it was meant to be heard, without the nasty artifacts that are often created by a series of effects pedals. Does your stompbox chain suffer from signal deterioration? The guitarists at Sweetwater have found that X-Blender effectively shields you from narrowing dynamic range and multiple filtering, resulting in the ultra-clear signal and phenomenal tone you demand! X-Blender operates in both Series and Parallel modes. Series mode is a simple effects loop, and all of X-Blender's controls are disabled. This mode is true bypass, with no buffering. Parallel mode introduces a buffer into your signal. In this mode, you can use the pedal's