Good afternoon folks ?
My previous killswitch in my Strat failed (I suspect it got damaged in the theft), and since I got a nice shiny (not literally!) new black pickguard, I want to think a bit more about where to put the switch for maximum playability. It turns out I have access to a Dremel so routing is no longer a problem for me as it was before - I was forced to put the little button between the pickup switch and the volume knob, which was okay but not ideal as I had to move my hand a significant distance from the strings to jam on the little sucker.
I want to place the button in such a way that I can play it without moving my hand from the strings.
Currently, I'm thinking of placing the button right below the middle pickup, like so:
It seems like this would allow me to play the thing with minimal hand movement, and depending on the riff I could even pick and press the button at the same time.
The button I got is a nice Sanwa OBSF-24 arcade button, so it's quite large - diameter slightly bigger than that of the knobs - which makes for easy playing, I suspect.
So my question to you lot is: if you were to put a killswitch in your guitar, particularly if it's a Strat, where would you want it to sit so that you can play it as intuitively and efficiently as possible?
Ta ?
My previous killswitch in my Strat failed (I suspect it got damaged in the theft), and since I got a nice shiny (not literally!) new black pickguard, I want to think a bit more about where to put the switch for maximum playability. It turns out I have access to a Dremel so routing is no longer a problem for me as it was before - I was forced to put the little button between the pickup switch and the volume knob, which was okay but not ideal as I had to move my hand a significant distance from the strings to jam on the little sucker.
I want to place the button in such a way that I can play it without moving my hand from the strings.
Currently, I'm thinking of placing the button right below the middle pickup, like so:
It seems like this would allow me to play the thing with minimal hand movement, and depending on the riff I could even pick and press the button at the same time.
The button I got is a nice Sanwa OBSF-24 arcade button, so it's quite large - diameter slightly bigger than that of the knobs - which makes for easy playing, I suspect.
So my question to you lot is: if you were to put a killswitch in your guitar, particularly if it's a Strat, where would you want it to sit so that you can play it as intuitively and efficiently as possible?
Ta ?
