i am not at all opposed to using an IC switch, though i would have to rig up a point-to point board or something (a couple of years ago i could have etched a PCB, but i don't have access to that at school anymore)

would it be at all possible to ask you to draw up a simple circuit using one of those IC's?

suffice to say i am confused and a little bit daunted by this explanation, but i know for sure that this part won't work:

the fx send is connected to nothing, and when the flanger is out of the signal path, the fx send is connected to the input, with the flanger output permanently wired to the fx return.

if the FX send is connected to nothing, the delay won't work properly, so when the flanger is in the regular signal path, the DD3 FX send and return have to be connected to one another

also: i'm not normally over-the-top concerned with TB, but I'd much rather have it in this project as the bypass on my FL-9 is pretty poor (when it's in the dd-3 loop it kills signal and i lose repeats)

i may be in over my head with this

okay, here's what I want to do and why

I have a Boss DD-3 modded by Robert Keeley to have an effects loop. What I want to be able to do is switch effects in and out of the DD-3 loop and my regular signal path. So, have the desired effects (its a flanger) in a loop, and then be able to switch that loop between the DD-3 loop and my regular signal path. I think its possible with a Boss LS-2 in either the A  B or A+B mix/bypass modes, but I've never used one so I'm really not sure.

At my immediate disposal are a 3PDT and a couple of DPDT stomp switches, plus a housing and jacks, soldering iron and skills

any ideas?

I just added a clipping section to my feedback loop (two germanium diodes back-to-back, mounted directly onto the 3PDT, on the lugs that send to Ground and Output).

I honestly can't say how it affects the plain distortion feedback sound, as I hadn't given it much use for a while before i added the diodes, however anyone who's ever tried a delay in one would know that it can get very, VERY loud quite quickly... now instead of increasing in volume, the signal clips and turns into a distorted mess. Much fun, at any rate.

Actually, results with this have been very erratic, i'm not sure how much a clipping section is doing for me at all.


Dach - I'd love to, but i don't have the equipment  

I just added a clipping section to my feedback loop (two germanium diodes back-to-back, mounted directly onto the 3PDT, on the lugs that send to Ground and Output).

I honestly can't say how it affects the plain distortion feedback sound, as I hadn't given it much use for a while before i added the diodes, however anyone who's ever tried a delay in one would know that it can get very, VERY loud quite quickly... now instead of increasing in volume, the signal clips and turns into a distorted mess. Much fun, at any rate.

ah. why didnt i think of that for a diagram

ok so if i go

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it should work properly?

EDIT: it works now, thanks colin

ok. i attempted this project, with the following results.

i got a perfectly good TB box. but it doesn't operate as a feedback loop - nothing happens when the loop swsitch is activate.
i did make one modification to this design, by using a DPDT footswitch instead of the toggle switch...  connections were made to the bottom left and top middle lugs (if that makes sense)... any ideas where i went wrong?