Questions about this circuit (MXR Noise gate)

[Xavier]

I'm going to make a perf layout for this, but I have a question. As far as I understand, the diagram shows the use of a momentary switch, so that leads me to ask two questions:

- Can I just jumper that switch and just use the "normal" 3pdt?

- As the circuit is also a buffer ("line driver") it should be always on and that's the reason for the momentary switch?

- If I supress the switch, can I also supress other parts of the circuit?. Looks like the transistor just above the switch is part of the switching circuit?

Thanks in advance for your help, as always

[d95err]

I'm going to make a perf layout for this, but I have a question. As far as I understand, the diagram shows the use of a momentary switch, so that leads me to ask two questions:

- Can I just jumper that switch and just use the "normal" 3pdt?

- As the circuit is also a buffer ("line driver") it should be always on and that's the reason for the momentary switch?

- If I supress the switch, can I also supress other parts of the circuit?. Looks like the transistor just above the switch is part of the switching circuit?

Commercial mass-produced effects generally don't use true bypass, so I assume the original circuit had a latching switch used to turn the effect on or off. You can ignore the momentary switch and use true bypass instead, but then loose the line-driver capabilities of the circuit. Perhaps it's better to use an SPST latching switch instead of true bypass for this circuit.