Can't get my killswitch right...

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candyman

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Well hello!
I have for a couple of days tried to wire up a killswitch in my bass( 2v 1t) but i just can't figure out what to do. And i have tried looking it up, but didn't find a thing... Any help from you clever people on this forum?
( i know it realy is simple, but this is where my stupidity shines through)
Picture of the cavity if it helps:
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Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

Thanks a lot, well help, but does not solve my problem completely as i do not have any pickup selector...
 
Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

duude easiest thing ever. all you have to do is;

1) solder two additional wires to the hot and ground connections of the output jack.
2) the solder the other ends of the wires to the switch such that, they are shorted in one position

when the switch shorts the two wires the signal will be killed!

Note:
from the looks of it, you have DPDT here. so one wire goes to either lug in the middle. the next wire goes to one of the outer lugs on the same side as the other wire you have already soldered.
 
Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

So...like on the diagram above? Or do i take both on the right side of the switch?
 
Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

candyman said:
So...like on the diagram above? Or do i take both on the right side of the switch?
Click to expand...

i personally dont like the wiring in the above diagram. if the switch goes finicky you might endup with intermittent signal.

its more like this with the two wires i mentioned drawn in red and orange;
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Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

Haha yeah thats what i thought but was not sure...thank you guys, especialy for this real simple drawing hahaha, just right for me!
 
Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

Oh, I also wondered, i have another killswitch i want to use on one of my guitars, and want to remove my tone pot, and install a killswitch instead.
How do i do this?
Also this guitar have passive pickup.
 
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Here is a picture(iknow iknow...the soldering is terrible. And battery is misplaced)
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Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

first thing, if this is passive then what is the battery for.

if it is passive, then it's basically the same thing. but again I fancy arcade switches if the guitar is a strat type (like here) so it should be a normally open switch shorting hot and ground.

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Hahaha, woops my bad...active* didn't see over what i wrote did i...ment to write active..its one pickup(emg 89 in the bridge)
 
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damn, i'm really not sure how an active circuit should be killed, never meddled with one in the first place. but my guess, is that all active circuits has a circuit switch thats built into the output jack. when you pull the jack out, the circuit switches off. so it could be used to the same effect as a kill switch.
 
Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

For active output it's a bit more complicated, but not much.

Here's two different drawings I had. Both are about the same:

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The trick is, with active output, you don't want to short the output to ground.
 
Re: Can't get my killswitch right...

Ok so i need to solder the one hot end of input jack to the switch, but where do i send it if there is no ground wire?
 
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