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Topic: Matchbro true bypass |
Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 6 Nov 2004 6:53 am |
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My batteries crapped out in my older Matchbro at a gig and it made me realize that my overall tone was probably being affected by weak batteries even when the M'Bro wasn't engaged because it isn't true bypass. I couldn't get a clean tone for love or money and I blamed the house amp until I realized it was the Matchbro--my fault for not having fresh batteries.
Does anyone have good knowledge of the wiring of these? I'm wanting to change out the switch to have it operate as true bypass--I don't care if the off position no longer offers buffering circuitry--I've got that covered elsewhere. My issue is that I'm not certain which wires are effect in, effect out, etc. on the slider switch.
This is a two knob (tone, timbre) single black slider switch model. I dig this unit too much to start hacking at it without a roadmap.
Actually here's the question--anyone got a schemo?
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Thomas Bancroft
From:
Matawan, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2004 9:36 am
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Jon,
I think the engineeers at Goodrich owned Duracell Stock. 2 9v batteries to run a Matchbox? It ate them so fast, I don't believe they were ever disconnected. Got a Hilton pedal and forgot about that stuff. Your Matchbro sounded awesome though!Anyway,
check out Keeley's True Bypass Looper. It's about 60 samolians and should do the trick. You could also check out sommatone.com. Jimmy is doing a cap job on an amp for me right now and also does true bypass mods on many types of affects. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 8 Nov 2004 12:29 pm
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Y'know, the looper thing may be the simplest way to go although I have so many pieces of outboard hardware that I'm not real keen on adding to the collection. If I do go this way, my choice would be
http://www.loooper.com/
I have a larger two loop unit he made for me a few years ago and I'd be happy to do more business with him. He has a similar unit to the Keeley mini for significantly less $$.
Thanks for the idea. |
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Chick Donner
From:
North Ridgeville, OH USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2004 1:45 pm
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| All I did was replace the external power jack with a DPDT switch and bypass the signal from in jack to out jack when I don't use the thing. It DOES mean that I have to throw that switch AND the original slide switch to turn the thing on and off, but since I don't flip it on in any kind of hurry, I don't worry about it. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 8 Nov 2004 2:29 pm
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| Chick---I think you've got it. I also don't mind hitting two switches. This way I don't need to figure out anything more about which leads are which. I'll just be messing with the jack wiring. I like it. Thanks. |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 8 Nov 2004 3:12 pm
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I got a techo friend of mine to hard wire my Matchbro to the mains -- so no more battery gobbling problems! works a treat
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Chick Donner
From:
North Ridgeville, OH USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2004 12:29 pm
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| To Jon Light . . . don't forget to connect the red wire(s) together that you take OFF the external power jack when you remove it. |
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