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I have yet to try my hand at one, but here are some vids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFD4MQsc39Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloQs1RsfRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jrrrYmfqk&feature=related Buckethead playing with his: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oElZrMhvsk8 Jeff http://jeffduke.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> To: "Loopers-Delight" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:55 AM Subject: OT: Kill switch for el guitar - design ideas? > Hi gang, > > Since there are many guitar and audio wiring wizards on this list I'd > like to ask for ideas on kill switch playing. Back in the days it was > a trick that you did with a Les Paul by turning down the neck pickup's > volume knob, hit a chord and work the toggle switch to stutter it. In > recent years Tom Morello has popularized the effect and developed it > into DJ style "scratching" almost made his trademark sound. Now, I'm > thinking about this in terms of musical playability and the best > solution I can imagine would be a touch pad, or button, big enough for > you to "drum on" with the finger tips of your right hand (while > providing "source noise" with your left hand on the fretboard). I have > not seen anyone using such a guitar solutions but since the idea is so > great I bet there are lots of people out there playing with it? Maybe > even on this list? > > Scott Middelton of Cancer Bats has a kill switch in his custom built > guitar, seen as picture 3 here: http://is.gd/thSM. But that solution > is sort of functionality-wise upside down as I see it. It kills the > audio when pressed - I would rather have a kill switch that lets > through audio when pressed. That's the only way to go if you want to > drum it by finger tips. And this rises an issue: Since the default > position would be to block audio you would also need a second button > for enabling the kill switch. Any design ideas for this? > > The only thing I can come up with is a toggle press button to > enable/disable the touch pad. The moment you enable it, the audio is > silenced and you can now open up the signal flow by tapping the touch > pad. In active mode this button works the other way, it disables the > touch pad and puts the audio flow back into normal. You would of > course have to hit the enable button with a musical timing. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > >