Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

I just picked up this vintage unit from the late 80's, but there's no foot controls (Bypass, Mix A/B, and Chorus/Delay). I figured I had a better chance of finding out if these were normal on/off switches or something else and just building my own controller for it.

Any ideas?

See if you can get in touch with Paleopete. He seems quite adept at wireing his own stuff. He may have some ideas for you.

if it's one of those old rocktron half space units... as I recall they just have a 1/4 inch jack for bypass... sure, just buy a jack at radio shack, make a box, wife it up and go. there's only two wires... if you get it backwards it will still work.

Wife it up
Man I thought I was the only one who clicked before proofreads.

Get the model number from it and what configuration the jack(s) might be. Wiring up a footswitch might not be too hard, especially if it's separate 1/4" jacks. If it's a single DIN plug it might be a bit trickier, but schematics might be available.

If it's separate 1/4" jacks, a standard 3 button footswitch for a guitar amp would be usable, they can be found at guitar oriented shops and sometimes pawn shops. many nusic stores have a lot of them from amps they sold and customers didn't want or didn't know a footwswitch was included. I got all of mine from pawn shops and rewired them to suit the amps, and one I made form the case of an old Ross phase shifter that was shocking the original owner so he scrapped it and gave it to me. Now I wish I still had the guts, I might be able to get it working again.

:lol: Wife it up
Man I thought I was the only one who clicked before proofreads.

I also wrote rocktron instead of rockman... oooooops...
or as I like to say... oooooop.