Rewire Something to Always-On?

[J Posega]

I’ve got a Southampton Fifth Gear with a foot switch that’s starting to show signs of age. I never turn this pedal off. Ever. When I do, I get sad. But sometimes the signal crackles when I fire up my board and I have to cycle the switch a couple times to clear it up.

I’m thinking of taking the foot switch out entirely and wiring it so it’s just always on. I could imagine a world in which I rehouse the pedal into a smaller enclosure with trimpots instead of external pots because I also never change my settings, but that’s even more involved.

Thoughts?

 

[sloppy_phil]

It's definitely doable, especially in Portland; you've got TONS of great pedal builders out that way. But I'd also just consider replacing the stomp switch. I've had to update one or two down the years; my old Korg PB tuner, as well as a MXR overdrive, which I had re-housed. Had new stomps put in, and both were back to working like a charm!