The clicking you hear is a natural, random, and unfortunate byproduct of true bypass switching. Line 6 pedals don’t use true bypass systems – they all have active, buffered bypass systems AFAIK. While such switching gives you the benefit of no switching noise and can prevent minor signal loss, they alter the impedance of your signal – changing the tone of everything that goes through it and after it. It’s a very subtle and hard to notice change in most instances, but sometimes it can be a problem (for example, most fuzz pedals sound quite different when the signal’s impedance changes).

EHX chose to go with true bypass switching on most of their pedals because it’s efficient, simple, and does not alter the signal. I doubt they’d want to go the other route, since some tone “purists” would be thoroughly annoyed by the tonal impact of other types of bypass systems.

Now, as for your problem… “popping” and other switch noise can sometimes be reduced or eliminated by stepping on the switch several times in a row to discharge the capacitors. Capacitors store energy long after the pedal is turned off, and if enough energy is built up, it can result in noise when stepping on the switch. See if that idea helps get rid of it – at least for the recording session.

The MicroPog is actually not true bypass. Surprised you’re hearing a click, but is it really that unworkable? Rock n’Roll is noisy, no?

by pass switch is a very good idea but you should go to the sound engineer he’ll batter assist you !!!