Distortion+ diode toggle. Is this right...diagram included

[Outlaws]

I think this is right.  It doesn't seem like the diodes are in series, it looks to me they are in parallel.  I am sure someone knows for sure, but in that case, this diagram should be right.

Is it?




All the triangle things are Ground...sorry, I forgot to make them point down on the green PCB.   :oops:

I suppose I could also do this with a SPDT, and hall all the grounds connected together all the time....but for simplicity and for a place to mount them, the DPDT seems like it sould work better.

Also, is it okay to have the wire for my switch span almost the whole pedal?  Thats the best spot to mount it.   :?

[petemoore]

On the modified side of the diagram you have
 Top diodes choice [two parallel diodes to ground, I prefer to call them 'back to back'] clips the + and - halves of the waveform
 Bottom diodes are also back to back
 ---l<---
 --->l---
 I'm pretty sure that's the way you want them wired too.

[Outlaws]

So let me get this straight......


The signal will go up the yellow cable....get affected by the diodes, then go back down the yellow cable (same way it came in) and continue on its merry way?

:?:





Do diodes have a sort of "sucking" characteristic?  Where they "suck out" what they need?  Kind of like taking potshots on the side of the road at passing cars that look just right?

[jayp5150]

So let me get this straight......


The signal will go up the yellow cable....get affected by the diodes, then go back down the yellow cable (same way it came in) and continue on its merry way?

:?:

No, your diagram looks correct (did you correct it after pete's comment?).  the signal will go to the switch (yellow cable) travel through the diodes to the other side of the switch, then out the black cable to ground.  The switch will just direct it to one pair or the other--just the way you had planned.

[Outlaws]

So let me get this straight......


The signal will go up the yellow cable....get affected by the diodes, then go back down the yellow cable (same way it came in) and continue on its merry way?

:?:

No, your diagram looks correct (did you correct it after pete's comment?).  the signal will go to the switch (yellow cable) travel through the diodes to the other side of the switch, then out the black cable to ground.  The switch will just direct it to one pair or the other--just the way you had planned.

I don't think I communicated that point I was trying to make very well.... let me try again.

Pretend there is no switch and it is just the diodes like it is now.

The signal is going from one point to another on the green line....and those diodes are just like magnets (analogy) that are pulling certain things out of the signal.  So the whole signal isn't really passing through the diode.  The diode just yanks out of the signal path what it wants/needs.

?

Is that right?  For this case I mean.

(I didnt' correct anything.  Is there something that needs to be?  I haven't bought anything yet though.  Making sure I know exactly what is going on to maximize what I am doing)

[jayp5150]

Oh, sorry, I was addressing your original question (and, yes, the drawing is correct).

Check out this post for your diode question.  I'm still learning the "how" of things myself.

http://www.diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/viewtopic.php?t=30502&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

edited--corrected link