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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:55 am
I read something about Tom Morello's guitar having a "killswitch" and that it has something to do with feedback... anyone have any info on this "killswitch" and what it does?
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:52 am
I remember reading in an interview with him that he just has one pickup always muted, and toggles back and forth between the off and on pickup.
-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Morello#Toggle_Switch
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:28 pm
Don't think he's the only one...
Check out buckethead.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:06 pm
All it does is let him create a stuttering effect on held out notes/chords. He just flips it on and off real fast, or in rythm, or in some other way thats pleasing to the ear. To get a pleasing effect though you have to have alot of sustain, thus a sustainer (actual sustainer, NOT a compression pedal) is always good to have if your going to use a killswitch alot.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:39 pm
Don't know about this kill switch thing... Sounds cool though. Where'd you hear about it? I love his Toggle work though, bullet in the head solo! *Orgasms*
As for AshWufei, I always thought sustain pedals were a waste of money. I remember going to the 2005 london guitar show and there was this bloke showing off a sustain pedal. Yeah it sounded IMMENCE, but I've got a little compresser and you can set it to make it do basically the same thing. And it's a whole lot cheaper than the thing that bloke was selling!
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:12 pm
using a muted pickup is the killswitch technique, but nowdays peiople get killswitches put in. it basiclly kills the signal from the pickups to the guitar's output. in more detail, when it's wired up it sends the signal from the pickups (or pickup selector), to (usually) a swtich (which is the kill switch) and the switch is wired to the output and the ground. when the 'sound' is muted, the signal is sent to the ground when the sound is not muted, the signal is sent to the output jack.
the reason to why it is wired to the ground rather than just not wired (this will also 'mute' the sound) is to cut out the buzzing/humming which will be created due to the signal not going anyway.
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