Effect Pedal switch types

[offender]

o yea and back to the actual topic, i find the boss type ones betta, for they are easier to push barefoot, BUT, boss type ones are not true bypass from my experience, on my awesome cry baby it has a DPDT switch, under the foot swingy thing that u push down hard to turn it on, every1 should kno wot im talking about, and if u have no battery in the pedel but the DPDT is switched so the effect is off, the original signal still goes thru, with my ibanez and boss however, no battery/power, no signal at all, more proof that, dunlop/mxr make betta pedels lol maybe dunlop make betta wahs, but i'd perfer a boss metal zone over a mxr distortion plus anyday.

Yeah boss pedals definitely for me are good in terms of always being able to be switched barefoot or not - but I find a ton of precision and feedback when switching my marshall. My Marshall pedal also says that it has a true bypass.

I run my two pedals off the mains anyway so im not worried about leaving them switched on.

[gregtarr]

Well, female calves have no udders.
Also, those cows in the picture aren't very good cows. A good cow will look more like an AT/AT.
To look like something, you don't need a mouth or a tail.

Somewhere outside my window, a band has started to play (they aren't very good, and when I say band, there is guitar and there is drums, and maybe they're drunk). The guitarist has quite good tone though. It sounds like a strat through a halfway decent tube amp with a fair bit of overdrive.
The other day, I had a jam with a pianist. It was pretty good, although since I have no amp, she had to play really quietly, and it ended up that I played piano too (there are two pianos in the music room here, one is a baby grand = nice). I'm not all that wonderful, but I just took some scales and improvised some melodies while she did fancy things with chords. I found that I play the piano quite differently to how I play the guitar - on the piano I play way more simply, more melodiously (like a RHCP melody thing) when on the guitar I'm always trying to be too flash.

[gregtarr]

Oh, and on the whole pedal button thing, a Boss pedal is made so that you just kick down on it, and it's turned on (or off). But I can see why the other kind is good. The switch on my Crybaby was set really nicely, I would rock my weight onto my front foot when I wanted to turn it on, and then I got it repaired once, and they changed how I had it set up, so it was really easily switched, and then I got it repaired again, and now they've set it so that you have to jump on it so that it changes.

[Bg]

and now they've set it so that you have to jump on it so that it changes.

easy to set up with a spanner....

[offender]

Well, female calves have no udders.

Is a Calf a cow? (its certainly bovine)
Is a kitten a cat? (its a feline)
Is a child an adult? (its a human)

Thats probably why no one thought that a cow could be without udders.

Also, those cows in the picture aren't very good cows. A good cow will look more like an AT/AT.
To look like something, you don't need a mouth or a tail.

Somewhere outside my window, a band has started to play (they aren't very good, and when I say band, there is guitar and there is drums, and maybe they're drunk). The guitarist has quite good tone though. It sounds like a strat through a halfway decent tube amp with a fair bit of overdrive.
The other day, I had a jam with a pianist. It was pretty good, although since I have no amp, she had to play really quietly, and it ended up that I played piano too (there are two pianos in the music room here, one is a baby grand = nice). I'm not all that wonderful, but I just took some scales and improvised some melodies while she did fancy things with chords. I found that I play the piano quite differently to how I play the guitar - on the piano I play way more simply, more melodiously (like a RHCP melody thing) when on the guitar I'm always trying to be too flash.

Interesting - did you have any amplification at all??? Are there guitar amps in the 'music room' to use? I have not played piano since I took lessons as a kid - when on the guitar I just try not to make mistakes

[Red Fred]

and now they've set it so that you have to jump on it so that it changes.

easy to set up with a spanner....

Really? How?
You have to jump on mine really hard....

[gregtarr]

I know you can change it with a spanner - it was me that set it nicely in the first place. I just don't have a spanner.
What you need to do is take the bottom off, then unscrew the thing which holds the arm (which rotates the wah cog) in place. Then unscrew the thingie underneath the actual pedal (that holds the wah switch in place). Now take all of the guts out. Go to the switch and screw the washer thing that is on the shaft down a bit (so the switch sits a bit higher - just a little bit higher though). Now stick it all back together - and the switch should be a little higher, and therefore you don't have to press down quite so hard to switch it.

Now, the stupid thing about cows. I don't really care if a calf is a cow or not, it was just a rebuttal to a stupid debate (which I started).

There is no guitar amp in the music room. The only amplification I have at the moment is when I press the headstock to some object and the vibrations are transferred into that, and it sounds louder. But there is a guy down the hall a bit with the tiniest amp ever (not one of the battery powered ones, just a really tiny thing), and a Zoom 505, and I can't stand it (especially after my amp - I'm so picky now), or one of the RA's has a Fender 185 something, which is alright, but still - I'm really picky now.

[offender]

Couldnt you do a real el-cheapo job and like blue-tac a thin nut or a wide washer on the top of the switch button?

I would think any combo amp would look tiny after owning a head and cabinet

[gregtarr]

It's not so much the size but the sound - although perhaps I remember it being better than it was - because I wasn't all that happy with it sometimes.

[Mike_Hosking]

those vibrations aro most likely the reverb unit(springs) moving around, if i jump nearby my amp the reverb unit moves and makes some weird noise, and its not even all the way up, wen its all teh way up and ur playing a slowish solo its sounds a lil like echo, esp on the master of puppets harmonizing.

[Red Fred]

I know you can change it with a spanner - it was me that set it nicely in the first place. I just don't have a spanner.
What you need to do is take the bottom off, then unscrew the thing which holds the arm (which rotates the wah cog) in place. Then unscrew the thingie underneath the actual pedal (that holds the wah switch in place). Now take all of the guts out. Go to the switch and screw the washer thing that is on the shaft down a bit (so the switch sits a bit higher - just a little bit higher though). Now stick it all back together - and the switch should be a little higher, and therefore you don't have to press down quite so hard to switch it.

I don't think that is possible with my wah becuase it has been modded for true by pass and had an led put in it.

[Red Fred]

I did everything you said but the washer is already as far down as possible, should i just take it right off?

EDIT: Okay I can't do that because then it's not balanced with the LED.

[Mike_Hosking]

wot sorta wah is it? vox, dunlop, morley?

[Mike_Hosking]

as i look at my dunlop one it would be very easy to raise it, just take out the bolt between the switch and housing and it would be much higher, if u were to take the washer off like u sed it would be a lil higher, wot does the LED have to do with it tho?
my switch is in the perfect place(so it should be after the price i paid for this) so i have no need to change it.

[Red Fred]

It is a dunlop one modded by Paul Crowther. The LED is connected to a little pcb board on the bottom the of the switch so the LED is inline with the switch. You get it?

I might just put more padding where the switch hits the pedal...