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From watching the YRGM vid from last nights friends and family show it looks to be a momentary off switch, meaning push to break the chain and release to return. See him hitting it. Cool idea.

Thread about this ages ago, it's a killswitch for the solo.

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love it. I'm going to leak that out onto the other boards and see how many think that's the real deal.

I want to put a kill switch in one of my guitars - store down the road has a cabinet full of different buttons. They're quite deep though and I have no idea of how I'd wire it in.

ha ! The Buckethead button !

It is very simple to wire in a kill/momentary switch. You need a push-button switch that is "normally off"- meaning that at rest it is an open circuit and when you push it, it completes the circuit. Wire the button so that one of the terminals take the "hot" of the jack, and the other is wired to the "common/ground" of the jack. So- when you push the button (thereby closing the circuit) the hot of the jack is shunted to ground, thereby cutting off the signal entirely.

Note" the button doesn't have to actually be directly wired to the jack terminals. I can be wired to wherever the hot of the jack connects. For example, on a Stratocaster, you can wire one side of the button to the center terminal of the volume pot, and the other terminal to the back of the volume pot- which would be a ground connection.

This is the best way because it is totally silent when the button is engaged. If you were to use a "normally ON" button, you would simply wire it in-line with the "hot" wire from the jack. BUT- this would simply interrupt the the circuit by opening the hot to be connected to nothing. The problem with this is that in some cases in will create noise, rather than a completely silent/shunted circuit- like if you unplugged your guitar while the amp is on and the other end of the cable it still plugged into the front of the amp.

If you do a Google search, you will probably find a lot more info. and wiring diagrams for this.

-Joe