Bugera 6262 mod.

[Danglin' Fury]

Hey. I need an opinion (Enzo's preferably) on a mod I'm about to do on my 6262. The tone on that amp is amazing! The only thing I don't like is the fact I can't switch from clean to crunch w/ the footswitch. What I want to do is disconnect inside the amp the portion that turns the effects loop on/off and jumper it to "on" all the time, find the momentary switch traces that turn on/off the crunch portion of said clean channel, and resolder the footswitch leads to those traces. Thus giving me a footswitchable crunch channel. I'm an electronics tech so this shouldn't be too big a deal. Does anybody think this will work? Let a brotha know. Thanks for looking.

[Twist]

Sounds like you've already got it figured out. It's sounds odd though to make an amp with no footswitch option for changing channels.

[Enzo]

You realize, I hope, that mainly what I am here is a "fix it" guy rather than a "mod it" guy.

The switching circuits are part of the FX module, and we don;t even have drawings for that little board. But the amp is simple. there are three momentary switches on the front panel, they ground some control input to the switching. The footswitch? I have no idea what is in it, but a simple ohm meter test will tell you which pin on the FS jack carries the loop control line. Open that line and run a wire from that pin on the jack to the non-ground side of the panel switch for Crunch, and voila.

As far as I know, the loop defaults to on anyway, so I don;t know that we'd have to change anything to have it stay on. Doesn;t it stay on all by itself?

[Danglin' Fury]

Actually, you are right. It does default to "on" all the time. My "real job" has me working 7 days a week right now on a return-to-grid project so I haven't had much time to do the mod. Very soon though. I'll report back if it works. I may find/make a separate footswitch. A single button possibly momentary and wire it with that. That way, I wouldn't have to mess with the existing footswitch. I'd just have an extra.