Push-Push Pots?

andrewsrea · Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:17 pm

I recently saw this: Push-Push pots which can be linear or audio taper and can be used in guitars. What is called a DPDT 'tic-tack switch,' you push the knob down and get one pole of the switch and push again to get the other pole. A lot more ergonomic than push-pull.

Anyone used these yet?

Example:

golem · Sat Sep 14, 2024 3:01 pm

I can't speak for anyone else but I can't see the picture. Also, I think the EBMM I just brought you is push push. Of course that also has a fancy pre-amp type situation capable of cancelling noise from single coils by sampling EMI and making sure there's no volume drop between singles and humbuckers. So when you're looking at those boards, there's a lot going on.

mozz · Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:29 pm

I think @Tobyjohn had used those type pots.

peskypesky1 · Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:45 pm

Fender has a cool push-push mini-switch on their Deluxe Strats:
https://www.fender.com/articles/mainten ... -explained

andrewsrea · Sat Sep 14, 2024 6:35 pm

golem wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 3:01 pm I can't speak for anyone else but I can't see the picture. Also, I think the EBMM I just brought you is push push. Of course that also has a fancy pre-amp type situation capable of cancelling noise from single coils by sampling EMI and making sure there's no volume drop between singles and humbuckers. So when you're looking at those boards, there's a lot going on.

I didn't recall that. These don't latch in an downward or up ward position. At rest, they are a few mm above the deck of the body. You push down and let go and it returns to its resting state, but the switch changed poles. Hit it again and it does the same thing, only the switch went back to its original position.

What was that EBMM model again? I really liked that.

golem · Sat Sep 14, 2024 6:55 pm

andrewsrea wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 6:35 pm
I didn't recall that. These don't latch in an downward or up ward position. At rest, they are a few mm above the deck of the body. You push down and let go and it returns to its resting state, but the switch changed poles. Hit it again and it does the same thing, only the switch went back to its original position.

What was that EBMM model again? I really liked that.

For every push push I've seen there's at least a subtle visual indicator that it's in one position vs the other. Basically it's either pushed in or out. Whether it's considered on or off depends on the design. With the S2 switch on that Fender you have of mine, down is what I think of as engaged/on. With the EBMM the up position is what I think of as on.