Arcade Button Kill Switch

[xfriendsonfirex]

I apologize if this seems to be a dumb question, but I'm not electronics expert, so here we go:

I was wanting to use an arcade button for a kill switch on one of my guitars. Are arcade switches not momentary? Are there ones out there that are toggle style instead?

Thanks!

[Samba Pa Ti]

yeah they are momentary which means you will have to hold it in to keep it killed, good for the tremolo effect but no good for killing the sound completely....

ive never seen an arcade switch that toggled, it sortof defeats the point of putting an arcade switch in the guitar if you just want to kill the sound.

[xfriendsonfirex]

I guess I could just use the volume for a total kill, or wire in an actual two way switch.

I might still go with the arcade thing though for a cool tremolo effect. Do you know if it's a pretty noiseless kill?

[Tim37]

as long as its a normaly open switch it will be as quiet as the guitar with the volume turned all the way down.

[xfriendsonfirex]

Sounds like something I would enjoy. Thanks for the help!

[xfriendsonfirex]

Sorry again if this seems stupid, but aren't arcade buttons two conductor switches? The ones I've seen online seem to be. If so, how would one wire that up? If you just ran the hot lead through the switch before the output jack, wouldn't you have to press the switch to close the circuit and get signal?

[borge]

Sorry again if this seems stupid, but aren't arcade buttons two conductor switches?

if it had any less it wouldn't be a switch

If you just ran the hot lead through the switch before the output jack, wouldn't you have to press the switch to close the circuit and get signal?

depends if the switch is NO or NC. (normally open or normally closed)

wire a NO parallel to the output jack ie hot on one contact, earth on the other, when the switch is closed the signal is earthed/silenced.

opening the circuit as in your description will be noisy.

I'm sure there are latching arcade style button switches available if you're that way inclined.

[Samba Pa Ti]

Sorry again if this seems stupid, but aren't arcade buttons two conductor switches? The ones I've seen online seem to be. If so, how would one wire that up? If you just ran the hot lead through the switch before the output jack, wouldn't you have to press the switch to close the circuit and get signal?

depends on the type of arcade switch, if its normally open or closed, you can just wire the hot to ground to kill the sound.

like i said before ive not seen a latching arcade switch but im sure theres similar sized switches that could be used that look similar to arcade ones.