swamprocker Messages: 22 Registered: January 2005 Location: Macungie, Pa.
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Does anyone here have or seen one or have a pic. of the 4-button footswitch for the Kustom 200A-4 Model with Reverb/Trem-Vib/Boost/Clipper options that has the 4-pin female XLR switchcraft connector?..John
ellum68 Messages: 71 Registered: November 2007 Location: Sioux City, IA
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There's nothing to them really. On the back of the amp will be a four pin XLR connector. The pins will be arranged in a semi-circle, there will be a metal rectangular piece inside of the semi-circle will be your ground. Each one of those pins on the connector controls an effect. When a pin is grounded out, the effect become active. The footswitches are just making or breaking that connection to ground. I believe the wire going from the amp to the footswitch would be a five conductor. Four wires for each effect and one for ground.
swamprocker Messages: 22 Registered: January 2005 Location: Macungie, Pa.
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ellum68 wrote on Fri, 21 November 2008 18:37
There's nothing to them really. On the back of the amp will be a four pin XLR connector. The pins will be arranged in a semi-circle, there will be a metal rectangular piece inside of the semi-circle will be your ground. Each one of those pins on the connector controls an effect. When a pin is grounded out, the effect become active. The footswitches are just making or breaking that connection to ground. I believe the wire going from the amp to the footswitch would be a five conductor. Four wires for each effect and one for ground.
Thanks for the info, i grounded each of the pins with aligator clips and, wow, all the effects work finally! The Trem/Vib is very noisy though, i think there's something lose in there. Everything else sounds great. The harmonic clipper & Trem/Vib sound so much better on this 1967 K200-A-4 than on my 1969 K200B-4 head. Also all the effects only work on the left channel side. Now i just need to find a 5-wire cable,4-pin female XLR connector and add 2 more switches to the footswitch.
Swamprocker:
I agree with your evaluation of the fx, I think that the A-series heads do sound better. I really like the ability of mixing the vib with the trem to get a fuller sound. They went back to this feature with the metal front amps.
I also like the fact that the Clipper has a separate volume control, not to mention the fact that you can use all of the fx on one channel.
I believe that both Jameco and Mouser carry the 4-pine female xlr plug that you need.
If you don't mind sharing, which pins of your jack control what features?
swamprocker Messages: 22 Registered: January 2005 Location: Macungie, Pa.
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chicagobill wrote on Mon, 24 November 2008 11:51
Swamprocker:
I agree with your evaluation of the fx, I think that the A-series heads do sound better. I really like the ability of mixing the vib with the trem to get a fuller sound. They went back to this feature with the metal front amps.
I also like the fact that the Clipper has a separate volume control, not to mention the fact that you can use all of the fx on one channel.
I believe that both Jameco and Mouser carry the 4-pine female xlr plug that you need.
If you don't mind sharing, which pins of your jack control what features?
I found a site called audiogear.com that sells the Switchcraft AF4 4-Pin female connectors for $5.19@. I was wondering what gauge the cable wire is to use,22AWG unsheilded? I found some 4 conductor on ebay but not the 5 wire?