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  • November 12, 2009 at 8:36 am #103690
    WatsonWood
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    That sounds really interesting. I will try to see if I can find one of those pedals to check it out. They are hopefully not too expensive (the lovepedals, I mean). Normally the EHX foot switches are not a problem when playing live with the band or even in the studio, however I have had occasion to play live with theatre and modern dance and in these cases, where there are moments of silence, a large clunk echoing through the sound system is not always welcome.
    Many thanks for the info. And I will check out the Cool Cat pedals as well, though Danelectro pedals have never seemed very solidly built to me. Again, many thanks for the input.
    Now, would it be too much to ask EHX to develop a new non-mechanically-noisy foot switch which is technically as up to date as the XO series?

    November 12, 2009 at 10:08 am #103691
    subsquare
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    It’s not so much the click from the footswitch that bothers me. The volume at ‘gig level’ covers this up no problem. It’s the electrical pop which will be heard as those kind of interferance artifacts always seem to come at full volume. As I said in my previous post, it made me cringe to hear such an awful sound rip through my amp at such a volume

    I don’t really want to start replacing switches but I’d be interested enough to take a look.

    If I can’t find an answer to this problem, or it doesn’t ‘soften’, I’ll probably try the resistor method mentioned above and elsewhere.

    November 12, 2009 at 2:41 pm #103694
    electro-melx
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    Many thanks for the info. And I will check out the Cool Cat pedals as well, though Danelectro pedals have never seemed very solidly built to me.

    the ‘food’ series were kind of badly made but the newer cool cats are very well made imo, metal cases, decent jacks, true bypass etc. the switch sits under a plastic cover, so you’d have to take one apart to see the switch. if Danelectro are using them they must be available somewhere because I can’t see them having switches manufactured just for them.

    here’s a couple of rehoused cool cats, it’s defo a different kind of switch, but how much better it would be I don’t know, but worthy of investigation maybe?

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    November 12, 2009 at 8:18 pm #103696
    WatsonWood
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    Absolutely worthy of investigation. And maybe the EH Man knows something about this.

    December 4, 2009 at 4:36 am #104794
    TheFloydGiver
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    I have all true bypass pedals now. thats mostly just for uniformity sake. The only issue I have run into is when I have some TB and some non TB mixed together there can be some weird results sometimes. like volume drops or weird white noise/hum. modern buffer bypass is so good nowadays theres not much reason to choose it over true bypass in general. the only time buffered bypass was bad was in vintage pedals like the original clide wah wahs and stuff with the imfamous “tone suck”. Most of that is in peoples minds anyway. Thats also the way Gilmour made his famous seagul sounds on echoes. So really in the end just exparament and see what you get.

    Actually Gilmour reversed the inputs and the outputs through the wah wah and just fiddled with the tone knob

    December 4, 2009 at 3:53 pm #104813
    diblet
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    are you familiar with cusack pedals? they use a soft-switch and maintain a true bypass

    http://www.cusackmusic.com/

    apparently coming soon he’ll be selling kits to convert your other pedals:
    “The Cusack TBS², replace your old 9pin switch with a Soft Feel Switch, while keeping True Bypass. “

    December 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm #104814
    electro-melx
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    are you familiar with cusack pedals? they use a soft-switch and maintain a true bypass

    http://www.cusackmusic.com/

    apparently coming soon he’ll be selling kits to convert your other pedals:
    “The Cusack TBS², replace your old 9pin switch with a Soft Feel Switch, while keeping True Bypass. “

    those looks really similar to the lovepedal and dano ones above…. must be able to by these somewhere..

    December 4, 2009 at 5:58 pm #104818
    diblet
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    those looks really similar to the lovepedal and dano ones above…. must be able to by these somewhere..

    *disclaimer* i have never picked up a soldering iron with regards to my pedals… i am however very interested in this discussion – it would be really great to change over the switches in my 2880 foot controller (as i use the 2880 with a pair of stereo condensers and an acoustic … would be amazing to be able to use the foot controller and not have the click of the switch in the loop)

    …

    but i opened up my tap-a-whirl, and it looks like its this switch : http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=672

    can’t see how this is everything though to create a true-bypass path – its just a momentary switch, not a mechanical one

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