Mini Rec FX Loop Footswitchable?

[soundchaser59]

Can it be made so? Seems like a toggle is basically the same function as a latching stomp switch.

Would it switch the fx loop on and off quietly, no pop? I don't get a pop when I flip the toggle switch back and forth.

 

[elvis]

The switch most likely carries ground or signal or both, and may be a multiple pole switch. You don't want any of that running through a long cable. Better to put a relay inside the amp in parallel with the switching and run a relay driver via the cable.

A much simpler alternative would be to run the FX send and return to a true bypass loop switch so you can drop out all the FX from the loop.

 

[domct203]

I would not be surprised if the FX loop switch is controlling a couple of relays to hard-bypass the entire circuit. It does not seem likely that Randall Smith would pass precious audio signal through a simple switch LOL.

Dom

 

[elvis]

Fair point. If that's the case, the relay driver is already there and wiring it out remotely would be trivial.

 

[soundchaser59]

A much simpler alternative would be to run the FX send and return to a true bypass loop switch so you can drop out all the FX from the loop.

Good idea. Much easier, and just as good if not better, because it wouldn't take the fx loop driver tube out of the circuit.