Almost embarrassed to say, I've never done the Millenium Bypass. Does it pop?

[skiraly017]

In all the time I've been building I've never used the Millenium Bypass but came across what I think is a version of it in a Xotic RC Booster (using a BS250). The switching is the quietest I've ever heard, so is the Millenium Bypass the cure for the dreaded true bypass pop? I'm going to feel really bad if the answer was in front of me the whole time. 

[R.G.]

The Millenium Bypass is a cure for 3PDT switches. 

It is no better or worse than other circuits which turn an LED on and off in those terms, excepting that the Millenium 2 may have a softer turn on than other switches because of the slow charge/discharge of the gate of the MOSFET. That **could be** slowed ever further by attaching a polystyrene or teflon cap across the gate/source of the Millenium 2 MOSFET.

But while the Millenium bypass won't cure popping, neither will it cause it. It's like asking "will giving a fish a bicycle cure its hiccuping?" 

[skiraly017]

Fish hiccup? 

Thanks R.G.

[Taylor]

Yeah, everyone knows the cure for fish hiccups is better-matched JFETs.

[Naz Nomad]

"Almost embarrassed to say ..."

Don't be, I'm not ... I can't even spell Milemmnimun, let alone be bothered to build it.

[JKowalski]

But while the Millenium bypass won't cure popping, neither will it cause it. It's like asking "will giving a fish a bicycle cure its hiccuping?"  

This is somewhat like saying "Would a fish prefer a bicycle or a tricycle?".

Why are you so fixated on fishes and bicycles, RG?  

[R.G.]

Why are you so fixated on fishes and bicycles, RG?  

Like all good fixations, this comes from an event in my formative years.

When I was young, there was this young lady that I thought was really. really. really. good looking. I was truly having an explosion of juvenile hormones. I found that she worked at an auto parts store - wow! even better! She could say "carburetor" and know what it meant. So I arranged to accidentally on purpose bump into her at the car parts place one Saturday. Imagine my feelings when she came up to the counter from the back wearing a T-shirt which said, and I quote from memory:

A woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle.

sob... I never really got over that... 

[oldschoolanalog]

...I can't even spell Milemmnimun, let alone be bothered to build it.

Ya no dere iz a spel chek funktshun.

A woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle.

sob... I never really got over that... 

That's the first time I've read that. Now I don't think I'll ever get over it.
Talk about a "kick in the teeth" reality check.
Dave

[Naz Nomad]

Ya no dere iz a spel chek funktshun.

Duzzin werk on my copmutrar 

[Ice-9]

A woman needs a man
Like a fish needs a bicycle.

sob... I never really got over that... 

Maybe she just hadn't met the right man at that time, I was waiting for the "I ended up getting married to her" happy ending there ??

[cheeborger]

In all the time I've been building I've never used the Millenium Bypass but came across what I think is a version of it in a Xotic RC Booster (using a BS250). The switching is the quietest I've ever heard, so is the Millenium Bypass the cure for the dreaded true bypass pop? I'm going to feel really bad if the answer was in front of me the whole time. 

This first showed up on the scene in the Fulltone OCD, copied by Xotic much later on. It's not a Mil Bypass, it's true bypass (hence the 3PDT) with a ingenious little circuit that slowly charges-up the LED to avoid the "pop."
I wondered for the longest time why Fuller had a BS250 FET connected to the LED!

[R.G.]

It's not a Mil Bypass, it's true bypass (hence the 3PDT)

Don't get led astray by 3PDTs. The Millenium Bypass *is* a 100% true bypass, by any definition of the term. The input and output of the effect are completely disconnected from the signal path when it's bypassed. So the statement "it's not a Millenium bypass, it's true bypass" is incorrect in its implications.

[skiraly017]

In all the time I've been building I've never used the Millenium Bypass but came across what I think is a version of it in a Xotic RC Booster (using a BS250). The switching is the quietest I've ever heard, so is the Millenium Bypass the cure for the dreaded true bypass pop? I'm going to feel really bad if the answer was in front of me the whole time. 

This first showed up on the scene in the Fulltone OCD, copied by Xotic much later on. It's not a Mil Bypass, it's true bypass (hence the 3PDT) with a ingenious little circuit that slowly charges-up the LED to avoid the "pop."
I wondered for the longest time why Fuller had a BS250 FET connected to the LED!

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