Hello.
If anybody could send me in the right direction. I have a friend that has a couple of guitars wired up stereo (neck/bridge pickups) and he uses two combo amps. He asked me if I could build him a stereo dual overdrive pedal.
I'm trying to wrap my head around some type of true bypass wiring for this. Subtracting the use of an LED, could a 4PDT work for this? And if so, could someone explain it to me? I am sure you could do this with sometype of relay circuit, but I am so how looking for a simple yet elegant solution. I've done lots of google searches, but yet I may not have been wording the search criteria very well.
The jist of what I am hearing from my friend and what he would like are two seperate overdrive circuits in the same enclosure, triggered simultaniously with a single stomp switch with stereo in and out.
Any help or advice is appreciated.
-Stevewire
You could do it with a 4PDT and also get LED's, if you used the Millenium Bypass thing. I'm not entirely up on that, Juansolo used it a lot.
IIRC, the Molten Voltage clickless units will allow you to operate more than one relay off of one soft switch.
Check the pdf I've attached, I think this is what you mean. No Led though, would need a 5PDT for that.... I'd imagine this kind of thing would have a lot of possibilities for some very cool sounds! Thinking about delays and modulation in stereo right now!
Paul
one option that makes a 3pdt viable is modding a circuit like The Opto-Tron (http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=5854.0) to switch two circuits.
You can use optical drivers and a 3PDT switch to get stereo bypass and an LED.
Jacob
Thank you guys. Definitely some options here on how to make this work.
Thank you Dutch. Whether I use a 4PDT here or not, I'm bound to use that information at some point.
The optical driver stuff looks interesting. I looked over the schematic for the Opto-Tron. I don't think I am grasping how it works or how I could mod the idea to make it work for this project. Any advice or direction on what I could read or use as a reference to get a better understanding?
I'll PM you. I can give you more info more easily there.
Jacob