W-w-w-what would you do? (to plop a foot-switchable toggle into an muff)

[jessenator]

I've been thinking a lot about a modified muff a friend let me borrow a while back, and now struggling to recall where/what, he had switched to have a nice differential in the sound. Output level or tone... probably volume, but I don't have it anymore.

What I'm asking is what would you do if you were to have a switchable element in one? This makes me sound like a massive hypocrite, but I'm thinking of the Kewpie, specifically, and something footswitch-toggled, so I'm not bent over doing it: set and forget/switch. Gain, tone, output, something else in the signal path? Something already in that specific circuit that makes better sense as a foot toogle rather than face-in-the-pedal-board feature?

Thinking then a portrait-orientated 1590BB; better foot real estate than a B or N1, and actually worth the footprint.

 

[Nostradoomus]

Might try the tone wicker route? Never done that on a kewpie, worth a shot. If not wire one of the toggle options to a 3PDT + boost board maybe.

 

[pricklyrobot]

A tone bypass switch will give you a very dramatic change in sound in one switch.

You get all the mids back and a big level boost from not going through the passive filters.

 

[jwin615]

Maybe a knob less or one knob TS style as a boost on the front end? Something stripped down like the love one eternity.
In terms of the Kewpie/muff, a switchable sustain would make the most sense. A high/low gain setting.

 

[jessenator]

Maybe a knob less or one knob TS style as a boost on the front end? Something stripped down like the love one eternity.
In terms of the Kewpie/muff, a switchable sustain would make the most sense. A high/low gain setting.

I did a search and a top result said "burst" and I freaked out thinking I had started that up again inadvertantly

Wonder if an orange squeezer would do it, or if something as simple as an lpb-1 would.

 

[Feral Feline]

I'm thinking stay within the confines of the Kewpie, 'cause you like it.

Find two (vastly [different], if possible) settings you like, then orchestrate a way to incorporate that into a footswitch.

For example, you could add a 4PDT that swaps out the tone pot for another (2 poles) and flips one of the switches (other two poles) — the fly in the ointment of my idea is that both Kewpie's toggles are DPDT... so no LED. While 6PDT switches exist, I've only seen them in toggle form and they are hugely expensive.

SO...
maybe a tone-pot swap and changing the clipping diodes in one of the dirt-stages of the circuit.
OR
Taking out a set of diodes and bypassing the Tone control (Jumbo tonebender style mod)

Have you tried stacking anything with it? As others have suggested a boost or other circuit in front... or behind... you mentioned LPB-1, how 'bout a Mole instead? A footswitchable clean-blend or parallel OD?

 

[derevaun]

I like the “grunt” switch on the ultra stoner. In any case, it’s always better to regret something you have done….