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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: DerHoggz on February 20, 2010, 04:24:38 PM

Title: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: DerHoggz on February 20, 2010, 04:24:38 PM
I recently got a 4P4T rotary switch, any ideas of a circuit to use it in?
Title: Re: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: jkokura on February 21, 2010, 12:50:08 AM
That's so funny. Most people start with an IC, or some cool transistors, or perhaps a specific pedal type like a Fuzz or a Modulation pedal.

You start with rotary switches. Cool.

If it were me, I'd use it for a wah, but that's because I have a Wah PCB and no parts. Another option would be the Matchbox from ROG.

Jacob
Title: Re: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: CynicalMan on February 21, 2010, 09:39:01 AM
An attenuator like the Dr. Z Brake Lite?
Title: Re: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: DerHoggz on February 21, 2010, 02:49:16 PM
I don't really have any other parts that warrant something, I just thought this was real cool.

Wahs use a 4P4T?  I've only messed with my guitarist's wah once, a dunlop.

That attenuator doesn't look like anything I'd be interested in, I use a solid state combo that has resonant freq. issues, so I don't really like overdrive with it.
Title: Re: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: Leston Braun on February 21, 2010, 03:23:35 PM
Quote from: DerHoggz on February 21, 2010, 02:49:16 PM
Wahs use a 4P4T?  I've only messed with my guitarist's wah once, a dunlop.

The usual Wah doesn't use a 4P4T, but you could build a "4-in-1-wah" with that switch. I built one with 3P4T, the switch switches Q res, Cf, and input C, and I kinda have 4 different wha's in one.
Title: Re: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: jkokura on February 21, 2010, 05:38:50 PM
Oh yeah - Wah's don't usually use a 4P4T switch - but you can use it to some cap and resistor changes if you want. I was assuming it was rotary...

Jacob
Title: Re: What to do with a 4P4T switch?
Post by: electrosonic on February 22, 2010, 11:03:37 AM
Craig Anderton's Frequency Booster, check out Paul Marossy's version here. (about 2/3 of the way down the page)

http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/MyStompboxes.htm (http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/MyStompboxes.htm)

Andrew.