Bricksnbeatles
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Here's another last-minute one for the PHB. Dead simple, and functionally not very interesting–– It's just two spst momentary switches and an isolated TRS jack. One footswitch shorts the tip to the sleeve, while the other shorts the ring to the sleeve. The purpose of this build is to serve as an auxilary footswitch for my Pigtronix Infinity looper, though this is useable with tons of other stuff (pretty much anything that isn't Boss, since boss stuff requires normally-closed switches). What does this control in the case of the Infinity Looper? The left footswitch toggles reverse playback, and the right is an instant undo switch so you don't have to do the whole double-tap and hold tap-dancing routine. There are also some secondary functions from holding down one switch or the other, including entering overdub state directly from the initial record state, and varispeed pitch-shifting.
Aesthetically is where things get slightly more interesting. I had the idea to make this when I was going through my parts bins, and found a pair of really neat red anodized 22mm industrial waterproof pushbuttons. I had bought them a while back with the intention of using it to control relay bypass in some kind of crazy fuzz pedal (Loosely inspired by the Lehle momentary footswitch, and the idea of having barefoot buttons integrated directly into the switch), but when they arrived they were a decent bit dinged up from being packed together, so I never comitted them to a nice shiny new build. I had drilled up the enclosure and dry-fitted things around a month ago, but then I realized I didn't have (to my knowledge) any more isolated TRS jack on hand anywhere, so I thought the project was a bust. After etching my Little White Lye enclosure, I decided to put this enclosure in the same 'mystery potion' for a while since I had nothing better to do with it:
This one etched much more dramatically– perhaps the somewhat inferior casting quality of the Tayda branded 1590A over the genuine Hammond enclosure of the Little White Lye contributed to the more distinctive patterning reflecting the flow and crystallization of the molten aluminum during the casting process. Due to how dramatic the etch was, I didn't feel the need to enhance it at all with ink this time, and instead I buffed it down with some minwax paste finishing wax. The results speak for themself.
Anyway, I had this one sitting on my workbench for the past 2 weeks or so without having the right jack for it, but today while searching through my parts drawers for my missing bags of 47nF and 150nF capacitors (the only two parts missing for the third build I was hoping to complete for PHB–– I know I have them; my records show that I should have around 33-38 of each of those, just no idea where) I came across a drawer that had the exact model of Neutrik isolated TRS jack I wanted shoved way in the back behind some random Banana plugs that I don't recall ever buying. 3 or 4 minutes with the soldering iron, and this fella was completed at last. I left the wires a bit long so I can swap which footswitch is which function via the screw terminals on the switch if I decide that I prefer having the Undo feature to the left instead of to the right as on the official Infinity Looper footswitch.
