Hello everyone and hope everyone is well. I have an embarrassing question of sorts in reading the pinouts of an audio jack on a schematic. Specifically, I am trying to add a missing HIGH input jack on a guyatone zip 355 solid state guitar amp. When I bought it, the whole HIGH input jack was missing and was usable with the LOW input jack only.
I couldn’t find a schematic for the amp but reckon this may work just based off the contextual evidence at hand. This schematic is for the FLIP 2000 MKII tube amp but reckon the input jack section is more or less the same (my LOW jack has a 68K resistor attached just the same as in the schematic and seems to share the same solid state front end entirely i think).
I went about trying to follow the schematic and got only as far as I could before hitting a wall with my limited knowledge. As of right now, I have both the HIGH and LOW jacks wired exactly the same as each other. Here are some photos to show the lone LOW input jack before adding the HIGH input jack, and the new HIGH jack wired basically the same as the LOW input jack. As is to be expected, both jacks have the same input volumes. The HIGH, wasn’t at all louder as I expected it to be of course. This is where I’m having my issue in reading this schematic and where the RING and SHIELD connections go in conjunction with one another. It’s all a bit overwhelming and I hope i’m even using the correct switched jacks to start with. But can someone tell me what I am overlooking in connecting these jacks to each other if need be so that the HIGH input jack is sonically louder than the LOW input? I can only assume this was how this amp was designed, like most amps with this same feature. I feel like i’m close but not doing this right and any help would be so appreciated.
I couldn’t find a schematic for the amp but reckon this may work just based off the contextual evidence at hand. This schematic is for the FLIP 2000 MKII tube amp but reckon the input jack section is more or less the same (my LOW jack has a 68K resistor attached just the same as in the schematic and seems to share the same solid state front end entirely i think).
I went about trying to follow the schematic and got only as far as I could before hitting a wall with my limited knowledge. As of right now, I have both the HIGH and LOW jacks wired exactly the same as each other. Here are some photos to show the lone LOW input jack before adding the HIGH input jack, and the new HIGH jack wired basically the same as the LOW input jack. As is to be expected, both jacks have the same input volumes. The HIGH, wasn’t at all louder as I expected it to be of course. This is where I’m having my issue in reading this schematic and where the RING and SHIELD connections go in conjunction with one another. It’s all a bit overwhelming and I hope i’m even using the correct switched jacks to start with. But can someone tell me what I am overlooking in connecting these jacks to each other if need be so that the HIGH input jack is sonically louder than the LOW input? I can only assume this was how this amp was designed, like most amps with this same feature. I feel like i’m close but not doing this right and any help would be so appreciated.
