i think i wired my kill switch wrong...

[Fine Cut]

so i put a kill switch on my OLP today. i wired it inline between the tone pot and input jack. i wired it inline what i presumed to be the hot (white core wire). i left the presumed ground wire (loose surrounding wire) connected. my theory was to just cut the hot signal when the switch was flipped, but i guess i screwed something up because with the switch on, the bass is dead silent. with the switch off, it's obscenely noisy.

what's the proper way to wire an inline kill switch?

[line6man]

You don't want to just disconnect the signal when you mute the bass, because then you get the "open guitar cable buzz".

What you want to do is set up the switch to short out the output to ground when you mute the bass, that way there will be no noise.

[walterw]

right.

wire the bass back to how it was before, then run a wire from ground to one side of the kill switch, and run another wire from the hot at the jack to the other side.

throwing the switch will short hot and ground together, giving instant silence.

[Fine Cut]

ok, great. i actually get that lol

now, i doubt my gun will get hot enough to solder to the back of a pot. would it be just as effective to ground on the control plate, or ground to the negative of the jack itself creating a "short" loop?

[ehque]

Yup, connecting signal and ground is the standard way to mute something. The negative of the jack itself is ground, so connecting to that should be fine.