Mute stomp!

[topo73]

Hello this is my first post. I present myself my name is Nicolás, and i'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I´m sorry if my inglish is not perfect but it's not my language.

I´ve been searchin and i can't find to make a mute true by pass stomp.
The only thing that i want the stomp to do is to mute my sound so it would be the first in my pedalboard chain. I want it to have a led that indicates when it is on.

If anyone can help me how to do it it would be great!
Iám a begginer so be patient!

[Jhouse]

I would just roll of my volume on my guitar........but if want a pedal for that,

I would probably build an A/B box and just not connect anything to the second out. You could make one of the outs go to your pedal chain and the other out go to a tuner too. I don't exactly know what you want to use this for (is it supposed to be a killswitch like the thing Buckethead uses?), but it will give you the biggest range of options to use it for.  Give THIS a try.

[Mike Burgundy]

Welcome!
The easiest way, admittedly with less flexibility than an AB box, is to do what I did (it's on my pedalboard) - wire a killswitch grounding your signal. Basically a tiny box with in/output jacks. Tip connections wired together, plus one connection to a switch pole. Switch centre pole to ground, done.
With a DPDT and a power jack (or battery) you can easily add an LED indicator too (don't forget the resistor)
hih

[blooze_man]

Here's a quick schematic..

[Mike Burgundy]

Good one Blooze. Do keep in mind that youre leaving the output (being the *input* of the rest of your signal chain) floating when it's muted. Might pick up some noise that way. I'd connect in and out together, so they're *both* grounded when "mute" is on - just to make sure.

[petemoore]

  Just ground it ?
  Worked out pretty good..a momentary switch on a guitar output jack, connects the tip/sleeve grounding the signal.

[R.G.]

Yep. Just ground it. Input and output jacks connected by a wire, switch ground them when the LED comes on.

It's a simpler form of the mike muter at geofex, or the mute switch on a microphone.

[blooze_man]

I was thinking grounded input as used in pedals. Switch the input and output in my diagram and you have grounded output.

[R.G.]

I was thinking grounded input as used in pedals. Switch the input and output in my diagram and you have grounded output.

No real need to open either one, as a simple shunt to ground works. But you can. Either way.