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Projects => General Questions => Topic started by: elenore19 on November 10, 2017, 05:47:33 PM

Title: Killswitch pedal, how to remove pop?
Post by: elenore19 on November 10, 2017, 05:47:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Killswitch pedal, how to remove pop?
Post by: m-Kresol on November 10, 2017, 08:43:54 PM
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
Title: Re: Killswitch pedal, how to remove pop?
Post by: elenore19 on November 11, 2017, 04:57:34 AM
Quote from: m-Kresol on November 10, 2017, 08:43:54 PM
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?
Title: Re: Killswitch pedal, how to remove pop?
Post by: m-Kresol on November 11, 2017, 08:01:44 AM
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