DIY 2 way switch for profiler - $10 in materials

For about $10 in materials cost, or less if you find cheaper suppliers or re-use stuff you might already have lying around, you can build your own 2 way switch that can be used with the KPA, or other gear that uses this sort of switch.

Here's what we are building:

I made one recently and thought I'd share the steps - it's really simple. You can use this switch assigning what each button does in the "Pedal" pages of the System menu, such as Browse Rigs (Up and Down), or Looper Start, Looper Stop (without needing to enter Looper mode first), Infinity (Delay), Hold (Delay), etc etc. Very handy I find to supplement the Profiler Remote.

Parts list:

- Enclosure
- 2 x momentary stomp switches
- 1 x 1/4" stereo jack
- some thin gauge electrical wire, any colour, around 20cm is all you need

Tools:

- Soldering iron and some solder
- adjustable wrench (to tighten the nuts on the jacks and switches)
- drill to drill the holes for the jack and switches

Steps:

1) Drill holes in enclosure

2) Wire up and solder as shown below

Note:
- colour of wires doesn't matter
- in my switch, I used blue for the "ground/sleeve" terminal on the jack
- left switch goes to "ring" terminal (purple wire)
- right switch goes to "tip" terminal (other purple wire)
- you can reverse which is which if you want, doesn't matter: In the KPA you can configure which switch does what anyway.
- since NO AUDIO SIGNAL passes through the switch, you don't even have to be too fussy about the quality of your solder connections, in case soldering isn't your thing. Just so long as the connections don't fall apart and don't short out, it should work fine.

And that's it! Really not much to it. Hope this is useful!

Agree about tayda. The parts in my pictures where from tayda.

Quote from thisamplifierisloud

"colour of wires doesn't matter" Are you really shure? Thanks for sharing.

To clarify: I meant the insulation colour for the wire you use (as paults pointed out), doesn’t matter. So long as the correct terminals on switches to jack are used as shown, any colour wire is fine.

Quote from Bilinguitar

Thank you! Ok so it looks like 2 inputs on the kpa. Maybe I'll just stick with the 2 stomps as you did. Thank you!

In retrospect, I would have preferred to get a slightly larger enclosure (like this one or this one if you prefer green) and put 4 switches in it. that way, I could use just 2 with one cable but have the flexibility to add a second cable and use all 4 switches. For now I'll just build another identical 2 switch as I have another spare enclosure of that size lying around.

Also regarding switches, I would not recommend these ones any longer:

https://www.taydaelectronics.c…p-foots-pedal-switch.html

Instead I would recommend these ones:

https://www.taydaelectronics.c…switch-solder-lugs-2.html

The reason not to use the "soft touch" switches is I found they don't work reliably with the KPA looper functions. Don't know why, but they work fine for all the other functions such as delay infinity / hold, stomp on/off, browse rigs up/down etc. Just don't work properly with the looper start / stop, overdub functions. Whereas the 1PDT switch linked second above do work fine with all the possible functions you might want to assign. Just my personal experience with these.