Killswitch pedal, how to remove pop?

[elenore19]

I've built a couple tiny kill switch pedals where I just have the switch connect the ground of the battery to the output. There's a big pop with how I have it. With this I'm disconnecting the input and output. Would that be creating the pop? Or is there something more I need to do to get the pop out of there?

Thanks for any help.

[m-Kresol]

try a 1M resistor from the output tip to GND (pull-down resistor). the pop usually is the result of DC voltage on the lug or originates from mechanical noise of crappy 3pdt switches

[elenore19]

try a 1M resistor from the output tip to GND (pull-down resistor). the pop usually is the result of DC voltage on the lug or originates from mechanical noise of crappy 3pdt switches

Great, I'll try that out. Thanks!
Are there "tried and true" good switches out there? The switches in these are low-profile 3pdt from BLMS. Are those legit?

[m-Kresol]

blms has generally has good quality switches. is there something else in the chain before and after the kill-switch.
before you do anything else, see if the pop is present without anything else, just guitar-switch-amp. if it doesn't pop anymore the problem is with the pedal before or after the killswitch