[LAD] May I asked something OT?

[Arnold Krille]

On Sunday 18 July 2010 21:57:06 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> A lot of kids wish to have a kill switch for their guitars.
> A kill switch is a short circuit, to 'stop' the audio signal.
> 
> I'm not fine with this solution, but the kids argue, that e.g. an
> interruption does cause unwanted noise, especially for over drive
> sounds. IMO even using opto-electronics won't solve the issue, because
> the noise of the transistor overdrive effect still would be hearable,
> while for a short circuit there is silence.
> 
> Has anybody an idea to solve this without a short circuit?
> 
> I'm really not a fan of short circuits. Note, it's not possible to do an
> interrupt all the times behind the latest noise generator and even an
> interrupt could cause noise itself, while a short circuit indeed is a
> good way to cancel sound.

What about an amplifier that normally passes through but on the kill-signal, 
the amplification is faded down really fast. Like ardour does with region-
boundaries?

Arnold
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