will this make a differnce in my fuzz face pedal? and i want an open circuit jack dont i?

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ok, i want an open circuit......... but i didnt see anything about 2 or 3 conductor jacks?  will it make a differnce?

can anybody help me out???   i kinda need to know this quick

The difference is in channels. A 2 conductor jack is mono, with the ring being ground. A three conductor jack is stereo, and will not make a difference to your circuit. All that will happen when you insert a jack, is that the sleeve conncetion of your jack will be shorted to the ring. This is why many people use the input jack to switch the battery on/off.

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which 2 of those would i want to use?   im thinkin the first 2 but im not sure.. cause the last one is closed circuit...... would those first 2 work?

If you're going to be building a few different pedals, buy 2 of each. The last time I was at RatShack I bought ALL of their 1/4" jacks of all types.

Sad thing is that they probably still haven't restocked!!  :lol:

Well, in terms of your question, i don't think the difference between open and closed circuit will matter.

The first one shows a stereo jack, these are fine, but not neccesary, unless you want to switch your pedal on and off by having a plug in one of the jacks.

The second one says mono jack, but the picture is of a stereo one. I have used these mono jacks in pedals, they work fine.

The third shows the closed circuit, the difference is, between the layers of insulation there is a gap on the open circuit, but on the closed circuit, there's insulation filling that gap. I don't think it will really matter, maybe you will get less noise with a  closed circuit, but i sort of doubt it.

Hope that helps

hey thanks bro..... yeah, i was confused cause of the picture mistake...... so if i get the first 2 i should be fine?  im just workin with a 3PDT switch for true bypass on my fuzz pedal and it says i need 1 stereo and 1 mono...... so the first 2 will work for this rite?

so 2 and 3 conductor is just a referance to how many tabs it has? mono has 2 and stereo has 3?

Right, notice how the plugs look.

A mono plug has two metal sections divided by a small ring of plastic. The larger section, the "sleeve" carries the ground connection. The tip carries the signal.

In a stereo plug, the sleeve is still the ground, the tip carries the right channel, and the middle ring, a third isolated metal section, is the left channel.

So in order to switch your effect on and off by plugging a mono plug into a stereo jack, you connect the - terminal of your battery to the "ring" connection of the jack. The sleeve on a mono plug touches both the sleeve and the "ring" connection, joining them, completeing the circuit.