User`s manual
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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing a Switch Gizmo. This product is designed
to connect to your amplifier, effects devices or other electronic
equipment and give them MIDI switching capabilities. This allows
you to integrate then into a MIDI based guitar rig. Once you have
everything connected using MIDI, a single button press on your MIDI
controller can change amp channels, select effects, and more!
The Switch Gizmo can control any device that uses short-to-ground
switching on ¼-inch TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) jacks. Typically, guitar amps
that have footswitches with one or two buttons use this type of
switching. Some amps also have more than one ¼ -inch “external
switching” jack, and these are designed specifically for use with a
product like the Switch Gizmo.
The two ¼-inch switching jacks are electrically isolated from each
other, which means that they can each be connected to a different
amp or device without any danger of grounding issues or other
electrical problems. This allows for use in rigs with two amps, or with
multiple effect devices that have external switching jacks.