I've noticed some footswiches have 2 buttons but use one cable and others just use 1 cable. Is it possible to use a 2button switch on a pedal that would probably only need 1 to switch back and forth with? I dont need an analog one either.
Hi s0me0ne, welcome to the forum. What you are asking may be possible but to give a definitive answer I would need more info. The Boss FS-6 can be used in most cases.
But the DS-2 has only 1 option: mode2 on or off, because normally it would just use a footswitch with 1 button
The reason I ask is because I have a footswitch with 2 buttons and 1 cord and if I could use it on the ds-2 without blowing a fuse or something, im just not sure if it will mess it up so I havent tried it
I have not tried what you are suggesting but I've tried the opposite. By that I mean I have taken my FS-6 into my Roland AC-60 amp jacks that are supposed to use one of these specialty cables (like a PCS 31) that takes the output from two footswitches and combines them into one male connector. On the Ac-60 this single connector into the single jack controls two things - one switch controls the tip of the male connector and the other footswtich controls a voltage part way up the connector. The jack on the amp just looks for hte voltage in these two locations.
I've taken just a straight cord from the footswitch to this specialty jack and, well it does not work properly but it didn't hurt anything.
I'd be surprised if you hurt anything. My guess is that all your footswitch does is put a voltage out at two locations on the male end connector and that plugging this into the DS-2 won't hurt anything its just that one of the footswitches won't work as it controls the voltage output to a different location than your DS-2 is looking for it. Disclaimer - like I said I have not tried this.
If you look closely, it�s connected to a stereo jack, that means that the two switches from the pedal are connected to the two channels of the jack(plus ground)!!..
Foot Switch Types?
Posted - 05/26/2008 : 06:47:30
