On Sunday 18 July 2010 21:57:06 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > A lot of kids wish to have a kill switch for their guitars. > A kill switch is a short circuit, to 'stop' the audio signal. > > I'm not fine with this solution, but the kids argue, that e.g. an > interruption does cause unwanted noise, especially for over drive > sounds. IMO even using opto-electronics won't solve the issue, because > the noise of the transistor overdrive effect still would be hearable, > while for a short circuit there is silence. > > Has anybody an idea to solve this without a short circuit? > > I'm really not a fan of short circuits. Note, it's not possible to do an > interrupt all the times behind the latest noise generator and even an > interrupt could cause noise itself, while a short circuit indeed is a > good way to cancel sound.
What about an amplifier that normally passes through but on the kill-signal, the amplification is faded down really fast. Like ardour does with region- boundaries? Arnold
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