Apollo tremolo footswitch wiring

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody,

I’m in trouble with my apollo main foot switch.

At first, I’e wired it as specified on the doc, with the wires going straight to the footswitch lugs.
But then I had no bypassed sound.
So I decided to use a standart 3pdt board to make things cleaner, and hopefully easier.
Then, surprise, there is no lug available on the pcb switch for the wire coming from S6

Duh !

Any idea anyone ?

Thanks,

Alex

[Anonymous]

You may have missed the purpose of the “KILL” switch.  It is designed to stop the tremolo action while keeping the very good buffer in the signal path.  Consequently, there is no need for a bypass to use this feature.

The build doc does give two different wiring options the first of which does provide for the use of a 3PDT switch to provide true bypass.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Wilkie, that helps 🙂
Is it normal to get a really noisy sound with the footswitch off?

[Anonymous]

Nope.  Investigate.  You may have another issue that is causing that.  Check all connections, particularly grounds.  Reflow any poor solder joints.  Post good photos including all off-board connections.  We’ll take a look.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for you help, have a nice day !

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