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How do YOU prevent this? I see a lot of people tape over the switches. I occasionally knock my switches around when I'm playing, I'm curious if anyone has some preventative measures.

Turn the switches over in the plate (so that down is on, rather than up), that way, if you do clout them, you'll only be knocking them on, not off.

I can't fathom how it's possible.... especially the lower ones.

Play properly.

I have to say ive never had a problem with them either.

othomas2 wrote:I can't fathom how it's possible.... especially the lower ones.

Play properly.

Fran wrote:I have to say ive never had a problem with them either.

They're about as easy to hit as a 3-way toggle switch on a Les Paul... which is to say you've really got to be trying hard to hit them... or trying way too hard to be rock-n-roll.

I've never had a problem either. Always wondered why people tape them up. Guess it just depends on your playing style.

i hit top switches all the time..
that is why i tape things down..
having said that, i prefer to not tape them if i can
as i don't hit them live very often
just enough to be a pain in the ass..

i've rotated the switches so that down is off, and on the CP jag that has been helpful, as i no longer hit the Kill switch mid song.

i don't feel like i'm rocking out way to hard.. when i play..

or trying to look like i'm rocking out to hard...

i'll have to re-watch some of the Zero Cool video and find out.

othomas2 wrote:I can't fathom how it's possible.... especially the lower ones.

Play properly.

pretty much have to agree. you can take other measures, i guess, which others have done for years (duct tape, deactivation, complete removal, etc), but it didn't take me long to just slightly rein in my up and down strokes. had to do this for mustangs as well. i just consider it as part of the challenge of playing a different instrument since they're all different in some ways.

You could put some spacers under the switch plate to lower the switches like on the KC Mustang.
I used to hit the switches all the time, and no, I can't be arsed to change my playing style. Not a problem since I got a new plate and have a 3way switch instead.

I have this problem on strats because I play right over the bridge, but the Jag is one of the few guitars that I don't actually hit switches when I play.

SKC Willie wrote:I have this problem on strats because I play right over the bridge, but the Jag is one of the few guitars that I don't actually hit switches when I play.

I love the switches . I never hit them... I tend not to hit the switches on a strat either but I do hit the volume ..Somehow.. Don't ask..

I hate selector switches though.. 3 separate toggles on a strat would make it soooooo much better . And more versatile .

Change the way you strum. Don't go as far down past the high e string to be able to hit them. Won't take long and you'll do it instinctively. I had to do that when I got my first Jazzmaster, as to avoid hitting the toggle switch on the lower bout.

if you strum energetically/clumsily it's easy to turn the switches off. i've done it numerous times onstage, with both the rhythm circuit and the pickup selectors, with embarrassing results. benecol's tip works, but since i only ever use the bridge pickup i just tape them down. i don't see why i should have to change the way i naturally play.

I did the fliperoo trick on my Cyclone II expecting the even more precarious plate placement, when combined with my sloppy playing to cause a kind of tone disco party but I soon realized this was pretty unnecessary. I can only remember having hit the switches acciedentally a few times, which is pretty much par for the course for every guitar I've owned.

It's the people who complain about knocking tele switches that scare me: what are they doing, permanent pick scrapes?

benecol wrote:It's the people who complain about knocking tele switches that scare me: what are they doing, permanent pick scrapes?

Like Sonic youth?

By the way I dug out those CDs you made me and ripped them to my laptop at work, and I have to say not bad. Working on Ayres and teh SY stuff now - will listen to the Burroughs when I'm feeling saucy next.

Sweet jesus, that's like a time capsule: what else did I send you, a 1987 Blue Peter annual?

Magnawolf wrote:How do YOU prevent this? I see a lot of people tape over the switches. I occasionally knock my switches around when I'm playing, I'm curious if anyone has some preventative measures.

If you don't need to move the switches during a gig, do what J Mascis does on his Jazzmasters - put the rubbers (erasers) that you get on the tops of pencils in the open switch holes.

benecol wrote:Sweet jesus, that's like a time capsule: what else did I send you, a 1987 Blue Peter annual?

Just some confetti and an embarrassing note about how much you LUB me.

I THROW MY SHIT AROUND, ROLL AROUND ON THE FLOOR WHEN I PLAY , GET KRUNK, PLAY KRUNK, BUMP INTO SHIT, DROP SHIT, THROW SHIT, FUCKIN PLAY WITH MY ELBOWS


I NEVER HIT SWITCHES.



SERIOUS.