True bypass Noise Toaster possible?

jay66 · Joined: Dec 31, 2011 Posts: 21 Location: Minnesota

Is there any way to make the noise toaster true bypass with a 3dpdt? Been running a guitar through it. It would be nice to be able to switch it off an bypass it with the rest of my guitar rig.

pico.farad · Joined: Feb 27, 2013 Posts: 16 Location: New Zealand

try this?

http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/StompboxWiring/

jay66 · Joined: Dec 31, 2011 Posts: 21 Location: Minnesota

Tried it today and no go. Wouldn't pass any sound on or off and couldn't shut it off wired that way. May have to build some kind of bypass.

pico.farad · Joined: Feb 27, 2013 Posts: 16 Location: New Zealand

Did you wire the switch wrong? It could be that you rotated all the wiring 90 degrees and it's switching between the wrong things. On the diagram you want to be switching between the bottom horizontal row and the top horizontal row.

When you say you couldn't shut it off, did you mean you couldn't turn the whole thing off or you couldn't stop the sound from the noise toaster? If it's the latter maybe you would need to repurpose the part of the switch with the LED and use it to cut some place on the noise toaster, like the output I guess.
I should probably come clean right now and say I have never built a noise toaster ... Embarassed

jay66 · Joined: Dec 31, 2011 Posts: 21 Location: Minnesota

No I didn't have the switch wired backwards but I'm not positive which is in and which is out on the circuit board on this one I may have had that wrong. It wouldn't pass any sound but the power was on all the time no matter which way I flipped the switch. Yeah the LED and power would have to be repurposed that's why I was thinking maybe a 4 DPDT might be the answer here or a switcher to take it out of the loop.