dead horse: how to make cornish buffer (preceeding treble booster) switchable?

Started by Bandwagonesque, October 28, 2021, 12:32:50 PM

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Bandwagonesque

sorry to beat a dead horse but I have a cornish-inspired treble booster on the breadboard and wanting to add a cornish buffer preceding it for a bit more 'authenticity'. i've built a g2 before per the layout below with the 3pdt switching and I really liked what my buffer did to my bypassed signal. But with this being a treble booster, I would like the ability to shut the buffer on and off so I have the ability to have it totally off when in bypass (true bypass) or buffered bypass with the buffer doing its thing cleaning up my signal a bit. Can anyone tell me how I would need to approach this or if there is a diagram i'm overlooking that I can look over as an example? Will I need a separate switch aside from the main 3pdt stomp switch to do this? thanks a lot for any help folks while I think out loud here a bit.  :)



antonis

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Bandwagonesque

figured as much, this is my achilles heel so i know i'm overlooking this solution. are there any references or schematics I can look over as i've been having a bit of trouble cracking this myself for the last day and a morning. I can get a switch to have the whole treble booster in true bypass with the buffer before it like another effect, but can't get this wired up for the life of me so the buffer is still 'on' when the whole pedal is 'off' but also the ability to shut that buffer off into true bypass while the whole pedal is 'off' as well.

idy

It sounds like you want a toggle that switches the buffer in and out...
and a foot switch that gives you, depending on toggle position
True bypass vs treble booster
or
Buffered bypass vs buffer+booster

Yes or no?

idy

If yes; then you need:

a normal bypass switching set up with the treble booster.

Then, between the input jack and that footswitch, you put your buffer. It also has a bypass switch, a toggle. You can use the same scheme you used for the other bypass, but probably no LED, so 2pdt is fine.