Wiring diagram for LED but with no switch.

[aaronwahlmusic]

I want to make a Klon buffer, and was wondering if anybody had a wiring diagram that shows how to wire the offboard wiring without a switch, but still a DC jack for an led indicator. Thanks guys!

[soldersqueeze]

You mean like this?



This assumes that you're using a metal enclosure and non-isolated jacks, otherwise just connect the input sleeve and the output sleeve to make sure both are grounded.

[aaronwahlmusic]

That's it, thanks! also, do you usually connect the two jack sleeves just in case? Sometimes there's a bit of paint on the enclosure preventing connection

[soldersqueeze]

Personally I'd remove the paint and make sure everything is grounding to the enclosure, but connecting them together is totally fine. Good luck with it!

[eatyourguitar]

Personally I'd remove the paint and make sure everything is grounding to the enclosure, but connecting them together is totally fine. Good luck with it!

I do this. ever since RG said you only want one path to ground I started doing this. sandpaper the inside till you get the metal. and clean the box good so you don't have metal flake in your pots.

[aaronwahlmusic]

why do you only want one path to the ground? (I have the out and in jacks connected) is that bad?

[eatyourguitar]

No its not bad. Just talking about small improvements i learned from a guy that wrote the book on good grounding and low noise. Although it relies on the resistance, capacitance, and inductance of the box + jack being better than a good wire. I have not noticed a difference yet between these methods. It does look cleaner so i have that.