stompbox switch question

danw

danw

cheap bastard
Hi folks,

I just bought a used Snarling Dogs bass wah, which turned out to be broken when I got it home. I don't know what else is wrong with it, but it almost certainly has a bad switch, since the effect doesn't seem to turn off. It's a 6-pin switch. Is there any reason to suspect it's something other than the standard DPDT stomp switch? I haven't been able to get any information from the manufacturer, so I was just going to order one of these.
 
should be a standard latching dpdt switch. If there's no led, its true bypass. If there is an led, its probably not true bypass. If its the second one (led), you can get a 3PDT switch and make it true bypass while keeping the led.
 
Thanks guys, precisely the information I was looking for. There's an LED, so I'll probably go ahead and get the 3PDT and do the mod while I'm in there.
 
rory said:
should be a standard latching dpdt switch. If there's no led, its true bypass. If there is an led, its probably not true bypass. If its the second one (led), you can get a 3PDT switch and make it true bypass while keeping the led.
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My Fulltone Deluxe Clyde wah pedal has an LED and is true bypass.
 
Zaphod B said:
My Fulltone Deluxe Clyde wah pedal has an LED and is true bypass.
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with a dpdt? You can do it that way, but its slightly more annoying as you have to add a little circuit in there. I haven't bothered to look up the SD BW, so who knows wtf is going on in there.
 
rory said:
with a dpdt? You can do it that way, but its slightly more annoying as you have to add a little circuit in there. I haven't bothered to look up the SD BW, so who knows wtf is going on in there.
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I passed right over the part where he said the switch has six pins - please forget I said anything. :)
 
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