Killswitch "Popping Sound" Demonstration

This is just a quick video showing the infamous "popping" that people say happen with killswitches.
Instructable for this killswitch is here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Guitar-Killswitch-Strat.-design/
Happy playing!

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Howto & Style

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• killswitch
• popping
• sound
• problem
• instructable

[RubberNinjaPwn]

What kind of guitar is that? It's cool. =)

[pandaman0529]

@RubberNinjaPwn Its a Starcaster S2 "Made By Fender"

[pandaman0529]

@mamulet90 Standard

[pandaman0529]

@kinobiheart Installed it myself

[kinobiheart]

@pandaman0529 Did you install the switch yourself or did you have a professional do it for you?

[MELIKESGUITAR]

scaloped frets? :P

[JAEZUZ15]

@dbsk8r92 Not really, actually only magnetic waves can be picked up by the pickups.

[ModPCLM]

@pandaman0529 lol as if he thought u could make ur strings vibrate with a speaker

[GuitarEchoes]

@RubberNinjaPwn starcaster s2

[dbsk8r92]

@pandaman0529 in my case it could be the fact that i have active pickups...other than that you're most likely right

[pandaman0529]

@dbsk8r92 In the case of putting a speaker next to guitar pickups, the reason why you would be able to hear sounds is NOT because of the resonance in the strings. While elastic to some degree, guitar strings would not be able to fully replicate the sounds coming out of speakers through resonance. The sound waves are just not that powerful. In order to even generate a signal thats picked up by the magnets, the strings have to be vibrating significantly. Its just not that simple.

[dbsk8r92]

@pandaman0529 technically anything that moves the strings can be create sound in the pickups. put a speaker with music playing near your strings and the vibrations from the sound waves(which is really vibrating air waves) moves the strings and creates the sound of the music.