The Mesa Boogie Clearlink Send Buffer/Line Driver is the ideal tool to avoid sound loss on long cable runs between pedal board and amplifier. With a boost of up to +12 dB, the compact repeater also bridges long cable distances without loss of high-frequency reproduction and dynamics. In addition to the unbalanced jack output for direct connection to the amplifier, a balanced XLR output is also available, which, in conjunction with the optionally available Mesa Boogie Clear Link Receive, allows a particularly low-loss, balanced connection to be established over a cable length of up to 100 meters.
Mesa Boogie make some wonderful products and they are built solidly and sound amazing but often are over priced.
I have had many a boogie product and I always find the connection are the problems. Normal patch cables that would work in any other rig just not with a boogie rig. Give it a push and all is good. I don’t know what it is about their products. It’s like they are built for non standard quarter inch jacks.
So I’ve had exactly the same issue with this buffer. It should have taken 30 secs to stick into a rig but the sound was not working. Checked ever cable of brand new patch cables supplied in this order, cables that were not cheap, and they weren’t the problem. Finally narrowed it down to either needing a twist and squeeze on the input of the buffer or then the output of my boogie Fx loop.
I know they both work. If I use different cables no problem at all, but the cables I want to use don’t make connections. If I use any other brand of device the cables would never be a problem, but stick them on a boogie product and it goes weird.
That’s four boogie products that have had this issue. It’s annoying.
But. They are all built well and once you get a cable that the boogie stuff is happy with, it lasts and sounds great.
This buffer is exactly what I needed to sit hidden in the back of my rack as an always on, impedance corrector so the levels going back into my time domain effects doesn’t drop. The signal remains clean and in coloured which is what I needed. I recommend it for its audio application. Just expect It to fight with cables you know work Just fine.