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#2476
Let me try and make this as clear as I can. I wish I could show you in person because that's easier.

There are two ways to do this. You need at least 2 poles, but you can also do it with 3 poles.

As you mentioned, to just switch between two caps, you'd put one cap between 1 and 4, and the other cap between 3 and 6, and lugs 2 and 5 would connect to the spots on the board. Now, if you wanted to add to that setup, and change nothing but including an LED, you would need to add another pole. This last pole, numbered 7, 8, 9 from top to bottom, would have a ground connection on 8, and you can either have one LED for one side or an LED for both sides. Whichever cap you want to have the LED light up for, that's the side you connect the negative end of the LED.

If you want to just use a 2PDT switch, you would have to adjust the way you do the caps. You would leave one pole to the LED, and it would be the same as above, with the GND on lug 5, and the LED on either 4 or 6 depending on which cap you want to light up. But the caps would not attach to two lugs. Instead, you would go from one pad on the PCB to the middle lug (2), then each cap would attach one leg to the switch (lugs 1 and 3, one for each cap), then the other lead of the caps would BOTH attach to the other pad on the PCB. In effect, it's the same thing as above, just using a DPDT switch instead of a 3PDT switch.

Jacob
#2477
Build Reports / Re: A few of my builds, hello!
July 30, 2012, 03:20:13 PM
Super cool to see your progression! You're certainly not into stock builds are you!

Jacob
#2478
Open Discussion / Re: Distortion demos on bass
July 29, 2012, 10:11:55 PM
I liked the Sabertooth best on the first pass.

Jacob
#2479
General Questions / Re: Vox in a Box?
July 28, 2012, 06:45:42 PM
I have had an etched Matchbox and English Channel on my desk, waiting to be built, for nearly two years. I haven't gotten to them. I originally thought I'd build both, pick the one I like the best, than drop it in a box with a Tiny Giant power amp and have a great little 'voxy' practice amp. I'm looking for a good cab to build it into, maybe with a 8 or 10" speaker.

Could be a cool project, I'd probably drop one of my headphone amps in there too for silent practicing, but I'm not sure if it would all work out...

Jacob
#2480
Open Discussion / Re: yo.
July 28, 2012, 01:16:37 AM
Stoked for you Austin! Marriage has it's challenges, and finding the right person is only half the battle. Congrats,

Jacob
#2481
Build Reports / Re: Halber Mensch (Aristocrat)
July 28, 2012, 01:12:36 AM
Just catching this one - Stellar build! Very clean, and very pro looking.

Jacob
#2482
Open Discussion / Re: One year project
July 24, 2012, 10:20:51 PM
Belated congrats! My mrs. and I celebrated 7 years this past spring. We've both grown a lot, and I love her more now than I ever thought I could.

Jacob
#2483
There probably isn't one single location to get better information than Beavis Audio's Tech pages.

http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/Switches/

Jacob
#2485
General Questions / Re: 7 or 10 Band equalizer
July 23, 2012, 02:13:54 PM
I built a BYOC kit a long time ago. Found it noisy, and I really wanted a boost more than an eq.

I suggest looking into a parametric eq more than a graphic type.

Jacob
#2486
Build Reports / Re: Black on Black Muff.
July 23, 2012, 05:43:12 AM
That's stellar. I really like how that one came together.

Jacob
#2487
In that case, a Bias trimmer on the outside might be nice to have.

I couldn't quickly find the thread in which I posted this, but it may be helpful to do some experimenting with the range of the Bias control first. It's not an infinitely good sounding control, and there may be a very, very small window in which the Bias control even sounds good. That's why sometimes it's not a good idea to move the bias trimmer off board.

Try this. Put the pot or trimmer in place, then find the range at which the bias works. For example, maybe the fuzz sounds perfect at 250K bias, and anything between 200K and 300K is useable. In that case, you don't need a 500K pot, because only %20 of it's range is actually useable. Instead, you should use a 100K pot, and use a 200K resistor in series with the pot. Then, your knob's range will be between 200K and 300K resistance, and the knob at '12 o'clock' will sound perfect.

Otherwise, your knob would sound perfect at 12 o'clock, but only be useable between 11 and 1, rather than 7 to 5.

Make sense?

Jacob
#2488
First off, which pedal are you doing this with? Many bias controls shouldn't be adjusted, so which project are you doing this to?

Second, a trimmer is usually a linear (B) taper. Yes, you can use a C, it will give you finer control in the back end, and will come up quicker.

Can't say about using which lugs, because I don't know the project you're working on.

Jacob
#2489
Quote from: mgwhit on July 20, 2012, 08:40:07 PM
...I think Josh is right -- you need to test it....

Fixed. And seconded.

Jacob
#2490
Open Discussion / Re: Tool to hold tiny drill bits
July 20, 2012, 06:10:10 AM
I believe it's called a "mini chuck" or a "pin chuck."

Here's what google turned up as an example: http://www.woodcraft.com/family/2000784/2000784.aspx

Jacob