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Re: Kill switch for el guitar - design ideas?



A momentary single-pole dual throw switch will do the job.  Using an IC 
will 
create more problems with noise, plus you need a battery for the chip.

toby
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark francombe" <mark@markfrancombe.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Kill switch for el guitar - design ideas?


> There are alot of ways to do this better... and a few extra options...
> One thing I have seen the guitarist fomr Melt Banana do is have a kill
> switch, where instead of switching to silence, he switched to a
> minidisc... on which he had all kinds of noise. Wanna regular
> killswitch? turn off the minidisk /iPod or whatever... whatabout a
> killswitch loop, so you run the "off" position thru a cheap old pitch
> shift pedal or octave pedal...
>
> Thats options.. but the other issue is the curcuit.. first the best
> method would have to be a touch pad. Now if you used a simple IC as
> the audio switch, you would eliminate the likelyhood of a click as you
> switch, plus the actual switching method could just be you grounding
> the circuit... i think... Im sure I could figure out a possible
> circuit, Plus it could be switchable as far as touch on cut or touch
> off cut. Most guitarists seem to have gotten used to this push off for
> cut, but as Per says, that seems weird. The classic old Les Paul
> (pickup volume down) method, worked fine, cos its was a toggle switch,
> but a button... well Id have to try it...
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> http://hallco.thomasnet.com/category/big-switch?
>>
>> j
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
>> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:41 AM
>> Subject: Re: Kill switch for el guitar - design ideas?
>>
>>
>>>> Scott Middelton of Cancer Bats has a kill switch in his custom built
>>>> guitar, seen as picture 3 here: http://is.gd/thSM. But that solution
>>>> is sort of functionality-wise upside down as I see it. It kills the
>>>> audio when pressed -
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Bob Amstadt <bob@amstadt.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Undoubtedly he uses a normally open switch. All you need to do is used 
>a
>>> normally closed switch in the same circuit that he uses.
>>
>> Ahh... so there are special "normally closed" switches! That I didn't
>> know. But I would still need to add four more switches (since only one
>> finger tip fits on that switch) and add a special "enable/disable
>> switch circuit" switch (since its default mode is to shut off audio).
>>
>> I'm looking for a controller that meets these three criteria:
>> 1) big enough for finger drumming with five finger tips.
>> 2) defalut mode of switch has to be to silence the signal.
>> 3) the shall let through audio for exactly the time being touched.
>>
>> Per
>>
>>
>>
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