Killswitch?

[BigJza]

Anyone tried this mod?

I'm REALLY REALLY not convinced that drilling holes in my axe is a good thing...but I really like the effect A LA Buckethead on "Chinese Democracy" etc.

Anyone done this???

Buckethead Kill Switch RED BLACK SQUARE Killswitch mute - (eBay.ca item 140284724125 end time 25-Dec-08 22:05:58 EST)

 

[vladmaximus]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
nope & maybe not..i think...
thanks bro...

 

[calibud]

Buckethead just took out the neck tone knob and put it there I believe.

 

[matthornet]

kill switch is true to its name.. kills..

 

[lowe]

just do it manually like turning your neck vol down and going back in forth from bridge ro neck. its a little harder but drilling into your guitar?.....hmm

 

[surfer777]

And by a little, you really do mean a LITTLE. Seriously, its not hard at all to turn your neck pickup volume down all the way. Way easier then drilling into your guitar!

 

[wantsa58]

Or just switch to a BFG style wiring set up. Its really simple to do and if you are like me and don't constantly tweak your tone pots you wont miss the missing tone control. The killswitch itself is really easy to wire up for a toggle switch and it looks better than that bucket head button crap IMO. You would have to shield the cavity though because the kill switch can make some odd static sometimes.

I RARELY use such an effect though, and resort to turning my neck pup's volume all the way down so I can get the effect.

 

[ojk007]

FWIW that ebay auction wants $15 (plus $10 shipping) for a 50c switch.

 

[Alligatorbling]

i never got the point of a kill switch, why not just make a stomp box that kills the signal

 

[180gROC]

i never got the point of a kill switch, why not just make a stomp box that kills the signal

It's for tapping rhythms with. You wouldn't be able to tap your foot like that...

 

[tomaburque]

Here's what his guitar looks like with the "killswitchs":

Notice that his LP looks like it has a flat top - hmmm.

I used to do the kill switch thing, probably before Buckethead was born, back in the 70s by pushing the low E string down to the pole piece on the bridge pickup while the polarity was reversed of the pickup with a polarity switch shorting the signal to ground. Works great with feedback.

 

[lowe]

Or just switch to a BFG style wiring set up. Its really simple to do and if you are like me and don't constantly tweak your tone pots you wont miss the missing tone control. The killswitch itself is really easy to wire up for a toggle switch and it looks better than that bucket head button crap IMO. You would have to shield the cavity though because the kill switch can make some odd static sometimes.

I RARELY use such an effect though, and resort to turning my neck pup's volume all the way down so I can get the effect.

how can you not miss the tone control?!

 

[Bowhunterwt]

You can wire one Master Tone and replace the other with a kill switch ~!!!!

 

[River]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
nope & maybe not..i think...
thanks bro...

 

[carydad]

Looks like a cheap radio shack switch, and instead of the BFG style where it stays killed, this looks like a momentary switch which would make it easier to get that machine gun killed sound. Looks horrible to me though. Take a 2k+ guitar and put a 50 cent cheap ass radio shack switch on it...yuck. At least find a nice looking one somewhere. He dont use tone controls I guess. I use them both and often.

 

[The_Sentry]

I've got a guitar I want to put one of these into that has active EMG's in it.

But, damn Radio Shack....all of their push-button switches here locally are Normally Open...and Normally Closed is needed. (Sure, I could wire it out with a setup to where the ground and the signal collide when the button is pressed, but I'm worried about frying the EMG's in the process.)

Sigh...my other option is to get a toggle switch, but that sort of defeats the purpose on a Les Paul since the tone selector can already double as a killswitch in this fashion. Nah, a button would give far more control.

Next step...a major electrical vendor and if they don't have it....fuhgetaboutit. I'll just throw in the 4th tone knob and be done with it!! Grrrr....

 

[Lee]

Tom Morello wires his killswitch on an on-off-on type toggle...so that in one motion of the switch you get the...well...on-off-on. This is a completely different feel than a button killswitch, but twice as fast as using your neck pup volume and your pickup selector.

How much do you actually use the killswitch though? Use the neck pup/selector trick and if that still doesn't do it for you then I guess you have to make some sort of sacrifice be it a tone pot or a hole in your guitar.