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Guitar Killswitch Installation

Step 4Wiring...

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Very simple, however can be confusing, here's my diagram.

The silver circle is a volume pot, the other semi circle with the 3 black rectangles coming out of it is the output/input jack with the three prongs (hot and ground).

At first, I thought you could wire the wire to the output jack onto any of the two prongs, tried it first time, switch didn't work, so I used the other taller prong and it worked so I left it. Trial and error here basically, sorry, but it isn't that much hassle to swap the wire from prong to prong.

Of course you have to unscrew the output/input jack plate and the cavity control plate at the back to get to these areas.

To sum this up, one wire goes from the switch to the base of the volume pot, and the other goes to one of the two prongs on the output jack (Mine was the tallest prong, If you attach a wire to one prong, plug in your guitar to your amp, and the switch doesn't work, then solder the wire to the other prong.
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Mar 19, 2010. 7:45 AMadris8 says:
are you doing this on an Yamaha ERG 121C?

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