A recent NPD (post to follow in a few days) has brought me back to the world of Big Muffs. I'm usually a Rat guy. Once I took delivery, I dug a post-2008 NYC RI Big Muff out of my closet and had fun mucking around with it. I have a few other models I like better, but sometimes I forget how fun Big Muffs are. It's a Rev C board, by the way.
I'd like to mod mine for a Tone Bypass footswitch. I can solder-by-numbers, but I can't really read a schematic, and I'm kind of a dummy.
I HAVE a DPDT footswitch in my drawer. As I understand it, the key to the Tone Bypass mod is just taking two components in and out of the circuit, but I dunno what the traditional version of this mod would be. Would the following wiring diagram be correct for the DPDT? [I realize since the components are in parallel, I could just join them up at the ends and send them into a SPST or SPDT (like my Rat/Turbo switches), but I happen to have this one, so I'm stretching out.]
[/url]If so, what components apply on the Rev C board? I seem to have read that it was the resistor marked R5 on the board, and possibly the cap marked C8? (the big orange one above R5, its label is obscured in this crappy photo). But I'm not sure if the directions I read were from this board revision.
[/url]So, will that DPDT wiring diagram work for the "traditional" Big Muff Tone Bypass, like the switch on my Tone Wicker BM? And if so, which components need to be lifted?
Then...
Let's say, just for hilarity, that I REALLY wanted to add an LED next to the footswitch. Can anybody hit me up with a switch wiring diagram for that on a 3PDT, and maybe any idiot-proofing details? Unsure as to how powering that LED might play into things. I'm not really very experienced with installing switches, and would prefer to rely on the wisdom of experts, rather than my usual trial and error.
Anyway, thanks a bunch. A foot-switchable tone bypass might fully bring me back to the Muff fold, and one with a sweet-ass colored LED indicator light would impress everyone, right?
