Some more help! Hohoho.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:19 pm

Have you done it yet?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:21 pm

Yeah, it's been five minutes since I asked.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:47 pm

I had a minute away from work.

Should be clear I hope. INPUT and OUTPUT are the normal in/out, guitar in/amp out. Send goes to the input of the pedal to be bypassed and return is the out of the pedal. LED will light when the effect is going to the pedal. If you are using a metal box this is everything, if you are using a plastic box the jack sleeves have to also be wired to the ground point. Holler if something doesn't make sense.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:50 pm

PenPen wrote:if you are using a plastic box the jack sleeves have to also be wired to the ground point.

Or if you are using a metal box and Cliff style jacks as are more common in the UK.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:53 pm

Really? Switchcraft metal jacks are the norm here. Ok, yes, if you are using jacks that are made out of plastic you will also need to wire the sleeves to the ground point. The usual convention for me is to use metal jacks and cases, so the jacks ground through the casing.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:54 pm

Truly awesome, thanks PenPen. I bought a plastic box for now because the metal ones were something like Â£8, and I didn't want to go drilling crazy-ass skewed holes into an Â£8 piece of metal if I didn't know what I was doing, but the plastic box seems pretty sturdy really, so I might end up using it anyway. I got a big lucky bag of resistors too, but the identification was all in german so I'll have to just bugger about and see which ones make the LED hurt my eyes. All I need to do now is order in the LED, jack inputs and footswitch, because Maplins only stock those on the internet store.

If I manage to make a good go of this, I'm gonna be so amazingly chuffed.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:58 pm

NP. Yeah, the only thing you'll have to mentally add to that diagram then is attaching wires to the sleeve lugs and running them all to the same ground point as indicated as GND. Also, make sure you get a 3PDT stomper, it'll have 9 lugs total if you weren't aware of that. If you hit any problems during construction just say so.

euan · Post by **euan** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:59 pm

Yeah, Switchcraft=expensive here. It goes back to the days of Marshall copying the Bassman and all the parts that they had to make different because importing American stuff cost too much. They used the Cliff jacks then and still do I believe.

I kinda like them over the Switchcraft style, you can do a little more with them with all the contacts are closed when there isn't a jack open.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:04 am

One thing: What sort of wire should I use? Can you find it on the Maplin site for me? I'm not even sure where to begin: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Sub_Category.as ... -2&doy=9m3

euan · Post by **euan** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:11 am

I can never remember what the correct gauge is, however if you put it in my hand I'd be able to tell you. I see that Maplin sells the Switchcraft style now too. Back when I used to get stuff from there they never did.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:22 am

That site sucks. I don't know where to look for it, with all of the limey codes and metric and such. What you are after is either 22 or 20 gauge (in that order), solid OR stranded core, doesn't matter.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:41 am

How about this:

euan · Post by **euan** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:57 am

That is resistance wire, you don't want that.

Maybe: http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ITA ... y=9m3#spec

It's stranded wire. 16 strands, should do you ok.

Do you have a Maplin near you? You could just go in and give the wire a feel.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:31 am

euan wrote:That is resistance wire, you don't want that.

Maybe: http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ITA ... y=9m3#spec

It's stranded wire. 16 strands, should do you ok.

Do you have a Maplin near you? You could just go in and give the wire a feel.

Awesome. I'll drop by tomorrow after college.