Muff’n high- and low-pass switches.

[MathU41]

Unless I’m having a derp moment and missing it, I’m needing some clarification for my head.
As illustrated, they seem to be set up as on-off, with a note to test the capacitor on M2.

However, especially with a build geared toward my bass in mind, would there be any actual benefit to using on-off-on switches?
IE, setting M1 as a 100n/off/jumper, and M2 to 1n/off/10n, or similar–or even wider ranges for the bass?

On top of a Buff N Blend, of course.

[Billy]

It specifies on/on DPDT switches and looks like the switch puts a capacitor in parallel with C1 and C2

So switching C1 to10n will allow more highs then adding the 100n in parallel on the switch will give you 110n close to the stock value

Same with C2 adding from 1 to 10n in parallel will roll off more highs

[MathU41]

Thanks for clearing that up.
So essentially there wouldn’t really be any benefit for using an on-off-on to get an extra step.

[MathU41]

Hmm.
And for the tone control bypass mod… Between the tone control and the mid scoop mod, wouldn’t those be able to at least be close to dialing in a flat tone curve? Or at least mitigate the harshest of the circuit’s effect on it?

[brd]

If you are looking to modify the mid scoop, my suggestion for the least extra components is to use the following values in the tone stack

C10 3n3

C11 10n

R18 39K

R20 39K

Then you can use a DPDT on-off-on switch with 2 caps as  shown below to get a mid scoop, flat response or mid boost.

This is borrowed from tagboardeffects for a Hizumitas work alike

You can plug the values into the BMP tone stack calculator on TSC in the web to see the effects. The caps will parallel C10 so you will have effective values of 3.3nf, 8nf and 13.3nf for C10

I hope that helps

[MathU41]

I was just expecting to find a way to make it work better with my bass, and blend into a mix a little better.
Giving me more options is like a voucher for a candy store. 😀

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