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Old May 14th, 2008, 03:50 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Kind of a cool concept for the times when you're too busy playing to grab your volume knob.

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Originally Posted by woodman View Post
right, tj -- i think the true bypass switch is just a fail-safe against tone-suck in either position.
If the device is always on (which it is), there is no true bypass. True bypass means that a switch connects the input wire directly to the output, bypassing the circuit. Since you're always using either circuit A or circuit B, there's no way to bypass it.

There's really no such thing as a true bypass switch. Some boxes just happen to have a switch that's wired to bypass the circuit. The same switches can (and often are) used to activate buffered bypasses, or can be used in designs with no bypass at all.
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