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There are alot of ways to do this better... and a few extra options... One thing I have seen the guitarist fomr Melt Banana do is have a kill switch, where instead of switching to silence, he switched to a minidisc... on which he had all kinds of noise. Wanna regular killswitch? turn off the minidisk /iPod or whatever... whatabout a killswitch loop, so you run the "off" position thru a cheap old pitch shift pedal or octave pedal... Thats options.. but the other issue is the curcuit.. first the best method would have to be a touch pad. Now if you used a simple IC as the audio switch, you would eliminate the likelyhood of a click as you switch, plus the actual switching method could just be you grounding the circuit... i think... Im sure I could figure out a possible circuit, Plus it could be switchable as far as touch on cut or touch off cut. Most guitarists seem to have gotten used to this push off for cut, but as Per says, that seems weird. The classic old Les Paul (pickup volume down) method, worked fine, cos its was a toggle switch, but a button... well Id have to try it... Mark On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote: > http://hallco.thomasnet.com/category/big-switch? > > j > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:41 AM > Subject: Re: Kill switch for el guitar - design ideas? > > >>> 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 - > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Bob Amstadt <bob@amstadt.com> wrote: > >> Undoubtedly he uses a normally open switch. All you need to do is used a >> normally closed switch in the same circuit that he uses. > > Ahh... so there are special "normally closed" switches! That I didn't > know. But I would still need to add four more switches (since only one > finger tip fits on that switch) and add a special "enable/disable > switch circuit" switch (since its default mode is to shut off audio). > > I'm looking for a controller that meets these three criteria: > 1) big enough for finger drumming with five finger tips. > 2) defalut mode of switch has to be to silence the signal. > 3) the shall let through audio for exactly the time being touched. > > Per > > > -- www.markfrancombe.com http://vimeo.com/user825094 http://uk.youtube.com/user/markfrancombe http://www.myspace.com/markfrancombe http://www.looop.no/shop/catlabel.php?q=Synch%20Non%20Synch