diy-ers chime in?

[nickyseow]

so lets say im building a 3-patch TBP looper. ie there's minimal parts, no breadboard/perfboard of sorts, just cabling, the jacks, the 3PDT switches, resistors, and the LED indicators..

i read at the GGG site about building a tbp looper, and it talks about grounding.. is it just a simple connection of the points on the 3PDT switch for the grounding to the sleeve of the input jack and the send jack for the first loop, and for the subsequent switches - just connecting the two spots on the switch, and then to the sleeve of the send jack?

one more question, when you're building it so you can cascade the loops, do you connect all the loop jacks? i.e send->return->send->return->send->return->output?

 

[theblueark]

What about grounding that you want to know? Hard to know what to talk about without the context.

What do you mean by connecting the loop jacks? The ground of the jack or the live?

 

[nickyseow]

it is necessary right? kinda like to avoid popping sounds or sth. i cant remember.

 

[theblueark]

Grounding is necessary on all signals. There is the live, and there is the ground. Without the ground, the live will do nothing cos it doesn't have a reference point.