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Home › Forums › Help/Technical Questions › Little Big Muff Footswitch Seems to be broken.
Hello,
The footswitch on my LBM seems to be broken. I made sure it was not the patch cords, amp, or guitar. At first, it started loosing the signal when I would step on the footswitch, or it would crackle in and out. This got progressivly worse. I could manage it by steping on it a couple of times, or by pressing it down part way. Now I have no distortion, and no signal going through. I can sometimes get the clean tone to come through if I hold the pedal in my hand, sort of hold the footswitch almost to the point where it would click, and kind of press the footswitch upward. It’ll stay for a little bit, but then fizzle out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is my go to distortion. I looked through the forums, and could not find anything similar to this. Thanks in advance, have a nice day.
Mister Hill
Kinda sounds like a bad switch, normally its a relatively easy fix with a new replacement 3pdt type switch, but (i’m assuming it the new modern LBM?) these are soldered to a mini circuit board with a soldered ribbon cable to the main circuit board, so the best thing though its more complicated is to replace the switch and ribbon cable with new wires from the circuit board to a new 3pdt, but you need to know where each wire connects to, can’t help much there but it can be figured out with patience and going thru the circuit.
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i had a similar type of problem with my newer LBM, where i had thought the switch quit, thus it only worked in bypass mode. i found that the ribbon cable is made of pretty cheap thin wire and if fiddled with enough (doesn’t take much) it can fail and stop making contact at certain wire/solder points, i had to resplice and resolder the ribbon cable where it connected to the 3pdt miniboard to get the effect to work again. this may be the case for you, that means the 3pdt is fine but the ribbon cable connections have gotten loose making intermittant or no contact…
…but if this is the old style LBM, i assume its using either a dpdt or spdt switch which has stopped working and thus its not true-bypass, i suggest replacing with a 3pdt and true bypass it.