Press two at once?

[gafbass02]

Anyone have any genius ideas for pressing two amp switches at once? I need something physically link two footswitches for my pair of peavey bandits. I'm thinking along the lines of Meccano or some such? Someone must've done it by now?

[HowieBass]

I think you need something like a DPDT latching footswitch that you can put into a metal box wired to two mono jack sockets to replace the two existing footswitch units (assuming the Peavey switches are simple on/off affairs).

[dannybuoy]

Strip of wood and two blobs of blutack?

Or you could just make a new footswitch, it would be a simple DIY job. The standard 'true bypass' switches you see in most pedals flip 3 switches at once - you could link two of those to their own jack socket and the third to a LED.

Edited October 30, 2014 by dannybuoy

[gafbass02]

It's two channel switchers, each with channel, and boost switches, each running to a bandit that I run in stereo off a zoom multi fx. What I'm hoping to do of some tracks is bypass the zoom and use the amp distortion, but switch both off or of at the same time. Reading online for one switch with dual outputs led to me to lots of complex stuff about ground loops. I'm more a blu-tack kinda guy lol!

[Roland Rock]

I had the same idea for a while as I need to engage fuzz and LPF instantly. First I tried positioning them closely together, but it was too inconsistent (ie I'm too clumsy to consistently activate both at once).
Then I thought of a little bridge made from wood or something. I gave up on that as I thought that getting equal pressure on both was too tricky, as was keeping the thing from being kicked off the buttons.
In the end, I spent £30 on a single bypass looper. Connect the two pedals into that loop then just leave them on. The signal is bypassed until you stomp the looper, then both come into play instantly. £30 well spent!

Edited October 30, 2014 by Roland Rock

[gafbass02]

It's a good plan, but I don't think it would work in this case, cause the amps would have to be in clean mode when I'm using my multi fx

[cheddatom]

I'd just wire two cables to one footswitch. I wouldn't want to advise you to do that though as I don't have the electronics expertise to guarantee it won't blow something up.