Orange Footswitch owners!

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Post by dcdosett65 » Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:04 am

I broke my first dual switch, Orange sent me a new one without hesitation, I love their customer service. Didn't even ask what happened or for the old one back.
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Post by dyl824 » Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:29 am

blackcloud45 wrote:Oh man, I am pissed! All that big old huge pedal (and waste of pedal board real estate) for that? WTF? I am soooo making my own...
hahahaha! let me know if you do, id be intrested as to how you do it! :)

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Post by blackcloud45 » Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:02 am

dyl824 wrote:
blackcloud45 wrote:Oh man, I am pissed! All that big old huge pedal (and waste of pedal board real estate) for that? WTF? I am soooo making my own...
hahahaha! let me know if you do, id be intrested as to how you do it! :)
I already did. I'll post pics after painting it.
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Re: Orange Footswitch owners! - UPDATE PICS!!!

Post by blackcloud45 » Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:44 am

Complete:

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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by blackcloud45 » Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:21 pm

-UPDATE

Here's the latest version:

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And here it is on my board:

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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by Norrin Radd » Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:19 am

Awesome! 8) Love the look of this one.

So glad you did this project - so I could do mine! :mrgreen: Thanks again for all the pics and info (shopping list!) so I could do mine. Much appreciated.
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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by Hello From Seattle » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:42 pm

whoa i was expecting a much bigger circuit board...

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Post by Hello From Seattle » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:55 pm

dcdosett65 wrote:I broke my first dual switch, Orange sent me a new one without hesitation, I love their customer service. Didn't even ask what happened or for the old one back.
i busted mine a while ago... what should i do to get another one? do i call them?

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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by CultClassic » Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:59 am

the LED in mine is really weak. i can barely see it. is there anything i can do to make it brighter?
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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by corganb » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:38 am

I just made DIY footswitch. It works great. Just 1 mono jack, a DPDT switch, 5mm LED, cable, solder. Guess I did it right because it works. The Orange one's have a stereo jack? I wonder why?
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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by sizzlingbadger » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:55 pm

I'm going to make a dual foot switch. I notice Orange use a plastic jack socket so that the circuit is isolated from the metal housing. I checked the sockets on the amp and they don't go to ground either (unlike an audio signal wire would). If you make a footswitch I would recommend you don't use the metal Switchcraft type jack socket as these will ground to the metal switch housing. If the pedal housing was to touch something else it would ground the signal loop potentially switching the channel or doing some damage.

I'll post the results when I'm finished.

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Post by jangle » Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:18 pm

blackcloud45 wrote:Oh man, I am pissed! All that big old huge pedal (and waste of pedal board real estate) for that? WTF? I am soooo making my own...
Forget that dude! I'm adding a mini-toggle to my guitars - or maybe a push-pull pot!

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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by RafaMoraes » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:19 am

hey folks,

Do you think this footswitch DIY will work fine (include the LED) through the Crush Pix 35DLX?

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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by Randy Bass » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:46 am

RafaMoraes wrote:hey folks,

Do you think this footswitch DIY will work fine (include the LED) through the Crush Pix 35DLX?
I have the Orange single footswitch and the Crush 30R. It switches on the amp's Overdrive mode just fine but the LED does not work as intended with the big Oranges. When the Overdrive mode is off, the LED pulsates along with the pick attack (like a clipping diode), but it stops altogether in Overdrive mode. It's not like it's hard to hear which mode it's in though.
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Re: Orange Footswitch owners!

Post by RafaMoraes » Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:20 am

Randy Bass wrote:
RafaMoraes wrote:hey folks,

Do you think this footswitch DIY will work fine (include the LED) through the Crush Pix 35DLX?
I have the Orange single footswitch and the Crush 30R. It switches on the amp's Overdrive mode just fine but the LED does not work as intended with the big Oranges. When the Overdrive mode is off, the LED pulsates along with the pick attack (like a clipping diode), but it stops altogether in Overdrive mode. It's not like it's hard to hear which mode it's in though.
I see.. but and what about the DIY footswitch? Will this happen the same way? Probably yes... I really want to know why this happen, and a way to overcome this problem with the LED on the smaller Oranges.

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