Righty. Some help.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:20 am

I've needed a footswitch for my amp for a while now, but never bothered to actually get one. Can the Behringer AB200 be used for amp-switching? I figured it could, but after looking through the manual briefly, I couldn't find mention of it. I might be going mad, but can anyone else figure it out? I thought at first it was a simple copy of the Boss FS6, but it seems to have many more functions, operating as an AB pedal as well.

http://www.behringer.com/AB200/index.cfm?lang=ENG

http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/products/en/FS-6/index.html

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:23 am

1. What is your amp?

This switch will possibly work, I need to knwo what switch the amp wants though.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:41 am

Peavey Classic, it uses just a twin-button switch for the distortion and reverb.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:01 am

yeah you'll probably be fine, you just set them to momentary and try both polarities and if that doesn't work try latching.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:28 am

Or just make one which will last a lot longer than any plastic Behringer pedal.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:32 am

This is Eric. I don't want him trying to solder out of his mind on idiotpills

inscho · Post by **inscho** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:20 pm

Mike wrote:This is Eric. I don't want him trying to solder out of his mind on idiotpills

Post by **Doog** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:31 pm

Or dooooooo you..

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:12 pm

So what sort of lead do I use, and where do I plug it in? I understand a stereo lead is used for stuff like this, but where do I plug it? There are, like, six jacks.

As for soldering, I'm probably going to attempt my own true bypass effects loop so I can easily switch out the Adrenalinn as well as others.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:16 pm

a TB loop box isn't that far from an amp footswitch box. With those types, you run a stereo cable from the amp, into a box with a stereo jack. From there, you take each "hot" line from the jack and run it to a simple stompswitch, running the other side of the switch to ground.

TB loop = four jacks and a stompswitch.

Amp footswitch = one jack and two switches.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:21 pm

Cool. I'd have been buying the pedal anyway, as it's an AB switch too, which is always useful, but the amp-switching would be a brucey-bonus.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:56 am

are you mental? It's simple.

How many footswitch jacks does your amp have? Two? Then use two mono TRS cables - One? Then use a stereo cable.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:12 am

Mike wrote:are you mental? It's simple.

How many footswitch jacks does your amp have? Two? Then use two mono TRS cables - One? Then use a stereo cable.

I understand that, it has just the one footswitch jack. I was just wondering where on earth I'd plug it on the pedal:

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:30 am

The manual is shit but I think you need a 2 mono TRS to single Stereo TRS cable. Plug the monos into INOUT1 and INOUT2 and the stereo into your amp.

The boss one I had was way easier to understand than that shit.

Post by **dots** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:32 am

ekwatts wrote:
Mike wrote:are you mental? It's simple.

How many footswitch jacks does your amp have? Two? Then use two mono TRS cables - One? Then use a stereo cable.
I understand that, it has just the one footswitch jack. I was just wondering where on earth I'd plug it on the pedal:

you could even try a regular instrument or speaker cable (i doubt it needs to be grounded), and plug it into a1. if all the peavey jack is set to do is switch between two channels, then a mono cable will do (at least it did for my prosonic).

that's what i'd try first, anyway. since you probably already have all of the pieces there that you need (pedal, amp, mono cable) there's no way you could hurt anything by seeing what the pedal did in different outputs going to the footswitch jack.

Post by **dots** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:33 am

Mike wrote:The manual is shit but I think you need a 2 mono TRS to single Stereo TRS cable. Plug the monos into INOUT1 and INOUT2 and the stereo into your amp.

The boss one I had was way easier to understand than that shit.

okay, if the footswitch is supposed to do more than switch channels, then yeah, you'll need a stereo plug going in.

euan · Post by **euan** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:36 am

Looks like you would need a stereo spliter cable. Can be sure at the moment though. What are the functuons of A/B1 and A/B2 and the ins and outs?

Ignore that. I'm still in the process of making my footswitch for my amp, but what I did to find if it was mometary or latching was to get a stereo jack and a 2 core cable and wired it up at one end and left the other bare. I just tried different combos or wires until I found that it was latching and which wire was for the channel switching and which was for reverb.

Post by **dots** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:43 am

okay, now that i've read the manual (mike is right; it's shit) this unit isn't designed for channel switching purposes, but *i think* it still can. use one side to switch between amps (plug guitar into input1, a1 goes to amp1, b2 goes to amp2).

on the other pedal, just run an instrument cable from a2 or b2 to the footswitch jack. these pedals only serve one function which is switching between two outputs.

again, you should have all you need to test the channel switching ability. give it a go.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:54 am

It should work - channel switching on the peaveys is just pulling to ground.

euan · Post by **euan** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:58 am

On a side note, my Laney jumped to channel 2 randomly the other night then cut back to channel 1 a second later. Was a bit worrying considering nothing was plugged in.