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Post by JFrankParnell on Oct 3, 2011 14:55:46 GMT -5
Neck on series with stompbox bridge Override After a bit of playing with my Bridge On Series (BOS), I'd like to try something a little different. I think that Neck On Series (NOS) might give me a different tone (N*M) that might be usable and would only sacrifice B*M, which is near enough to B*N to not be much of a loss. Also, I want to try to do a Bridge Override Footswitch, and I thought that there might be issues with the Bridge On series. Specifically, when in BOS mode, the B would not be directly connected to ground and therefore, the Bridge Override Footswitch wouldnt be getting the ground that it needs. So, apart from moving the Series switch and Phase switch to the Neck, this scheme would need a TRS jack and the Footswitch Disable switch for backwards compatibility with a normal 2 wire cord. The concept for the Bridge Override Footswitch (BOF) is to have a 3 wire TRS cord coming from the guitar: 1. normal output from downstream of the Volume/Tone 2. Bridge only, straight outta the pup 3. ground The BOF would then switch between normal output and Bridge. Also, for fun, I could put a volume and tone for the Bridge (prolly wouldnt get used, but ya never know) and an FX loop that would affect the Bridge only. I'm fairly confident about the wiring except I'm not sure if the V/T on the guitar would affect the Bridge when in BOF mode (and viceversa the V/T on the stompbox affecting the tone of the guitar in normal mode ), and I'm not sure if the NOS switch would affect it. Also, on the stompbox, I'm not sure that it's ok to use the same ground for the guitar signal as the 9v (or less) LED circuit. Could I please get your thoughts on this? PS: the arrows are meant to be the 'ground' symbol.
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Post by ashcatlt on Oct 3, 2011 16:16:28 GMT -5
Fine to share ground.
As for the rest of it, anything selected via the onboard switches in parallel with the Bridge pickup will also come on that "Bridge only" wire. So it won't really override much. The onboard V will load the bridge pickup, but probably won't have much variable action. The T will work pretty much as normal.
I think it's not likely to get what you want as you've described. It's gonna take some "back and forth" to/from the footswitch, which will introduce it's own issues.
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Post by JFrankParnell on Oct 3, 2011 18:10:59 GMT -5
oh yeah...crap.
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