Hot box

[AndyG]

Hi I am geting ready to build my hotbox and I want to have a led for the clean channel and one for the lead channel, and also have a bypass switch
Could someone help me out on this?

Thanks
Andy

[axg20202]

You'll be using two switches then. I would use a dual colour LED (3 leads) for the clean/dirty switch (e.g. turns green for clean, red for dirty) - I think it looks nicer than just having a normal single colour LED e.g. to come on for dirty and off for clean, and is certainly neater than using two LEDs (one for clean, one for dirty). You should be able to use a standard 2PDT for this, where each 'side' of the dual colour LED is switched using one pole of the switch, and the clean/dirty is switched using the second pole of the same switch. Then for the second switch just do the usual true bypass with a single-colour LED using a 3PDT.

[bancika]

He'll need 3PDT for both I'm afraid. Hotbox channel switching is basically true bypassing last 3 gain stages (actually 2+CF) so he'll need 2 poles for that and one for LED.

[axg20202]

Fair enough - I'm not familiar with the hotbox. Two 3PDTs it is then.