Kill Switch

Alfie · #1 12-29-2007, 03:23 PM

I came across this on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=019

I don't really need it, and if I did need it I could easily make it myself. But it is a great big black pedal that says KILL. I have never had GAS for something so inherently dull.

Unrepresented · #2 12-29-2007, 03:39 PM

Why not just stick any true bypass effect in your chain that you're not using and take the battery out of it?

Alfie · #3 12-29-2007, 03:40 PM

That is what I do... but the point is that the thing says KILL on it. I like.

funkalicious101 · #4 12-29-2007, 03:41 PM

or get a true bypass loop, and dont fully loop it. and then write kill on it.

Sean S · #5 12-29-2007, 07:27 PM

heh...I like how it says "True Bypass"

as if there's anything to bypass

SpankyPants · #6 12-29-2007, 07:30 PM

hahaha ^^

I thought this thread was gonna be about bucket head.

Sean S · #7 12-29-2007, 07:32 PM

Actually, I wouldn't mind one of these...it'd be cool to add a momentary kill switch for Tom Morello-esque kill-switching

Bassplayer_479 · #8 12-29-2007, 07:37 PM

Had a look at his other products...
Man there is some useful stuff in there!

Swimming Bird · #9 12-29-2007, 08:16 PM

But a momentary killswitch is gonna be really hard to use if it isn't near your hand -- you won't be able to move your foot fast enough to get a cool Morello or Buckethead sound.

Marcury · #10 12-29-2007, 09:55 PM

That's great!

natasmi · #11 12-30-2007, 05:28 AM

Radioshack, less then a buck.

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Bassplayer_479 · #12 12-30-2007, 07:53 AM

How'd you wire that thing?
Details please...

maxgrant · #13 12-30-2007, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alfie

I came across this on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=019

I don't really need it, and if I did need it I could easily make it myself. But it is a great big black pedal that says KILL. I have never had GAS for something so inherently dull.

Especially when you look at the price. For $57 I could probably buy a dozen metal boxes and switches at Radio Shack, and paint "Kill" on them myself.

natasmi · #14 12-31-2007, 06:33 AM

Easy, pickups positive solders to the kill switch, another positive lead leaves kill switch and solders straight to the tip tab on the output jack. The pickups negative goes straight to the output jacks sleeve tab. It's just like wireing your pickup straight to the jack only with a switch on the hot wire. I've wired 3 of my basses pickup straight to the jack, I'm always checking to make sure my vol/tone knobs are dimed so I came up with this as a solution to the problem. Only on basses that the tone pot is useless on. Like an Epiphone EBO, That thing had a "lack of tone" pot on it with just that neck humbucker.

syciprider · #15 12-31-2007, 09:03 AM

He can update it next year and call it the Killswitch Engage.

Colonel Monk · #16 01-04-2008, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bassplayer_479

How'd you wire that thing?
Details please...

You're not serious are you?

Bassplayer_479 · #17 01-04-2008, 12:57 PM

Umm...my bad for never learning how to wire a kill switch, but apperently it means that I can be mocked?

Colonel Monk · #18 01-21-2008, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bassplayer_479

Umm...my bad for never learning how to wire a kill switch, but apperently it means that I can be mocked?

Sorry, man.

I've never done it either, but it works on the same principal as a flashlight or lamp or any other electrical appliance.

The simplest way would be to wire the switch (has two poles) in line with the signal wire, between the jack and the first connection.

Turn the switch to off, connection is broken, no signal, no sound. Turn it on, you have signal, you have sound.

Not sure about how much "hum" you might hear though - I would experiment with cutting the signal (tip on 1/4" jack) or the ground (usually the "sleeve" on the jack, or outer conductor) to see which makes less noise. You know how your amp hums if you unplug the guitar? That's what I'm talking about.

Monk