3P3T stomp switch?

antichef

antichef

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I made a routing pedal for my pedal board that's sort of double looper - there are 6 jacks - 3 on each side - and a true bypass 3PDT (nine pin) footswitch, which toggles the signal to go through one loop or the other (and a LED for each loop, to indicate which one is active - but that's only if you supply power - there's no room for a battery). It works great, but I don't use it.

Anyway, it's been driving me nuts that the switch only has two states - one loop or the other loop. I would love it if it had three states - running straight through (with no LED lit) as the third option. I order a 4PDT (12 pin) stomp footswitch, but just realized that that just has 3 rows of 4 pins and functions the same as the 3PDT with an extra set of pins, but still only two states. Rats. I guess that's what the "DT" stands for - "Double Throw" means it can "throw" the signal one way or the other other, in a manner of speaking.

Is there even such thing as a 3P3T stomp switch? Triple Throw, that is? Three states?
 
You've got it.

Triple throw, quad throw etc do exists, but they're usually rotaries or linear multi-point switches.
What you could do is put another DT stomp switch before the existing setup.
It would send the signal to the existing setup or bypass it completely.

OK, so you end up with two things to stomp but that's ok, right?
 
yea, i made something like this before, It was two loops, I had a switch for each loop (dpdt) for "loop on" or "bypass" then I had a routing switch (4pdt) that would let me select "loop1->loop2" or "loop2->loop1" then a master bypass switch (dpdt).
 
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