Re: OT: footswitch in "tuner out"

[Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>]

It's realllly easy to instally a momentary switch if anybody else is 
looking 
to make noises like that.  Lots of mods can be made if you can overcome 
the 
"fear factor" of doing something new.

\t



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Walker" <billwalker@baymoon.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 7:28 PM
Subject: RE: OT: footswitch in "tuner out"


>
> Yep that's correct M.    Korg DT-7 and a momentary footswitch, there may 
> be
> other tuners this works with too but the DT-7 has an actual mute jack.
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mech [mailto:mech@m3ch.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:46 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: OT: footswitch in "tuner out"
>
> At 8:30 AM -0700 8/15/09, ditch wrestler wrote:
>>I think it was a while back that somebody said by putting a latched
>>or unlatched footswitch into an effect pedal's 'tuner out' plug
>>would act as a kill switch, muting all that was going through the
>>pedal.
>
> I think I know the trick you're talking about, and you're having
> trouble finding it (I think) 'cause a couple of your details are
> munged.
>
> I believe you're referring to a trick discovered by our own William
> Walker while using one of the Korg tuners.  There are a couple of the
> Korg models that have an input for a pedal to be used as a "Mute"
> switch.  You can attach a unlatched footswitch (like a Roland
> FS-series switch) into this connector and use it as a 'killswitch' to
> create your own gating effects.
>
> I'm sure that if you search back for Bill's posts looking for "Korg
> tuner" you'll probably find the thread you're searching for....
>
> --m.
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