Re: What kind of switch...

I'd recommend using either a rotary switch or a pot with a push-pull switch
that'll replace the tone pot. The latter will allow you to keep the tone
control. If you opt for the method of lifting the gnd on the vol pot, it'll
give you more flexibility in finding a switch, because it requires a
single-pole switch. It will work just fine. You'll just need to keep the
vol up full, otherwise you'll be putting some series resistance in line.


"Max Smith" <mlspost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The DPDT switch might be the ticket - I won't be using this switch on the
fly - I'll either be using the volume pedal (almost always) or (very
rarely) using the on-board volume control (I've decided to go without a
tone control on this guitar) - its just there if I decide to just plug in
and play, like a jam session or trying an amp or the rare case when I
don't have all my gear. So the switch could be set prior to connecting a
signal cable to an amp.

Most of the toggle switches I see for guitar are these tiny, stiff
phase-switch kinda things - I'm going to see if I can locate something a
bit bigger and maybe with some cool factor - maybe some sort of aircraft
or automotive switch.

Thanks,

Max Smith

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let
alone."
- Thoreau

Dave wrote:
I frequently (almost always) use a volume pedal and want the option to
turn off the on-board pots so I am only running through one 250K volume
pot instead of two. I really only want the on-board pot in case I don't
have a volume pedal or it gives up on me at an inopportune moment.

OK. You need to get the pot out of the circuit. One way to do that
requires a DPDT switch. Thing is, unless you get a make-before-break
switch (expensive), you'll get a pop when you switch 'cause for a
fraction of a second you'll have an open circuit when the output jack
(which is the input of the amp) will be floating.

Alternately, with a SPST switch, you could wire things so that you lift
the gnd on the vol pot. In that case, with the vol up full, it'll be out
of the circuit, and you will avoid any extraneous noise.

I know you mentioned removing the tone circuit, but if it's simply the
load of an additional vol pot you're concerned about, why not leave the
tone pot connected?


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