Removing the input and output jacks- newb

[msurdin]

I want to remove the input and output jacks from some of my pedals I am housing in a enclosure with other pedals. These pedals are a seymour duncan pickup booster,and a sovtek green big muff.
Any help would be great. Thanks alot

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

I've been known to saw off the part of the jack that protrudes beyond the PCB edge.
Yes, it's butchery...... I've only done it to my own stuff!
Seriously though, if you are reboxing the Sovtek Big Muff, mine semed to have a very unorthodox footswitch pinout. I don't know if they are all like that.

[msurdin]

I was just plotting ideas late last night and came up with this. Could I unsolder the jacks for the board then ass wires into each hole that the jacks were in then braid all of them together to a longer wire and send that to the bypass switch?

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Well, you can.... but, it isn't easy to desolder jack sockets without wrecking the board.
And, I wouldn't 'braid" or bunch wires up too much, because if you get input and output wires too close together, then you can get feedback happening (by way of capacitance between the wires).

[msurdin]

Is there a better way to do it if I don't wreck the board and the jacks are off? Could I just jump each hole to the neck until all of them are connected to one of them and then just use one wire to go to the switch? Wouldn't this be better then the braiding way?

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Certainly, you can leave the jacks in, you can take them out, you can chop them about, whatever suits, just so long as the wires end up connecting up the way they were in the first place.
All I was saying (from many years of bitter experience) is that:

1. Sometimes it is harder to unsolder jacks than you might think. Using desoldering braid might help. Wiggling each leg around after using the braid, so that the leg isn't touching the pad anymore, is a GOOD THING. Don't use your soldering iron as a crowbar though, use some stainless steel pointy thing (solder won't stick to it).

2. A random bunch of wires tied together can result in feedback, if the circuit is high gain. The Big Muff is high gain.

3. It is easy to desolder a switch & then forget what the connections were. I have done this - with a Sovtek Big Muff, as it happens.

Every generation has to make their own mistakes - but one hopes they are DIFFERENT mistakes Good luck!

[msurdin]

What should I do if all those wires will result in feedback? I want to be able to use wires to connect it to the next pedal.