Livewire FSW22 Dual Footswitch

Most Liked Positive Review

Jack may be too long for some amps

Purchased this to use with a 10ish year old Peavey amp I only just found out had a dual footswitch (been using it with a single this whole time). First try, I was getting activation of both inputs (for this amp a boost and an fx loop bypass/engage) with the left footswitch and nothing from the right. I opened it up and started experimenting to find the issue. Finally was able to determine that the jack is long enough that it was going past the tip by about a millimeter and putting both pins on the ring of the TRS connector. Compared it to my old single jack and sure enough there was a little buffer on the old one that effectively made the jack a little shorter. Also did a quick search, and this seems to be a common problem with this footswitch. My solution was to drill a 1/4" hole in a jazz III pick and slide it on the new connector. Worked like a charm, it holds the connector back just enough to keep the pins lined up, now both buttons work as they should. Footswitch seems to work well, it's a little big for what it is and the permanent cable isn't my preference over a removable one, but that's just preference.