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  • #28524
    Anonymous
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    I want to pick the collective genius brain of these forums with a switching/routing question.
    Most of the stuff I make is for my brother, who plays electric cello, bass and mandocello professionally. He wants a box with an buffered FX loop (no problem there) and a single output.
    What I can’t figure out yet is the inputs. He wants 3 inputs, but footswitch-able so only one can be “on” at once. I know I could do 2 inputs with a 4pdt switch but I don’t know what to do with 3. Is there a wiring for multiple 3pdt switches that ground out the other switches
    Open to any ideas. And please feel free to set me straight if I am being obtuse. Thanks!

    #28525
    Barry
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    I had a similar need regarding the instrument switching and after much reading, pricing & debating this is what I ended up doing for many reasons. Namely, the work, time, and materials involved did not stand up to this pro-quality product for the price.

    Note regarding the price. You may find a used model on Reverb?

    Inaudible instrument switching: The whole point of the Lehle 3at1 SGoS instrument switcher is that your audience shouldn’t know you’re switching instruments without seeing you do it. That means no pops, no clicks, no hum while you grab your next instrument. Just leave them all connected to the Lehle 3at1 SGoS, and it’ll take care of the switching silently and reliably. How? Gold-plated relay switches with pop/click suppression – professional grade circuitry for serious performance.

    Mix and match instruments and sources: You may have found the Lehle 3at1 SGoS looking for a solution for your guitars or basses, but it can handle virtually any instrument with ease. Acoustics with piezo pickups, passive or active pickups, and even line-level sources are accommodated by the 3at1 SGoS. And inputs A and B have gain adjustments, so you can balance all connected instruments and sources relative to input C.

    • Silent switching for up to three instruments
    • Versatile inputs handle electric instruments, piezo pickups, and line-level sources
    • Gold-plated relay switching and pop/click suppression provide sonically transparent performance
    • Stereo signal path makes it ideal for stereo effects processors
    • Programmable via MIDI for configurable functionality

    https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LE3AT1

    That said please comment with other suggestions if you have them.

     

    #28529
    Big O
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    I had a somewhat similar need for my home hobbiest rig.  I wanted a speaker cab switcher, but found no PCB project that could accomplish this as the load (speaker impedance) seen by the amp needed to be continuous to protect the amp.  I settled on a Radial Cabbone that I got off Reverb used for slightly more than half of what a new one costs.  Protecting a $1000 tube amp is worth it.

    I actually think I asked about building something similar a few years ago on this forum and got the same advice.  Listen to the experts such as Barry on this forum as they provide good advice.

     

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