If I want to switch to headphones and mute the outputs, what’s the quickest way to do this?

BobosCurse - 20 July 2014 12:27 PM

If I want to switch to headphones and mute the outputs, what’s the quickest way to do this?

Something like This or This is probably the quickest way to do it.

This will do the job if you want to use your feet...just ignore the tuning function!

If you are DIY inclined (or have a friend that is), making a kill switch couldn’t be easier.  I got this off of the sevenstring.org Forum:

“DYI is too easy I bet you’ll find a friend with a solder willing to do that for you for a couple of beers. The cost of materials should be for let’s say 5 bucks each you can also put both the killswitch and the on/of on a single pedal with a button and a SPST…

Do 2 in 1 is just trivial...connect the cables to a single pole of both Switch/buttons”

Yikes!  I’m sorry, I meant in the MOX settings!

BobosCurse - 20 July 2014 07:45 PM

Yikes!  I’m sorry, I meant in the MOX settings!

I could be wrong, but as far as I know the signal of both the headphones and the main outputs function/don’t function together...that is, you cannot separate them within the machine.

Others with more specific knowledge of the signal path the machine uses can weigh-in...but the hardware solutions I suggested were based on this understanding.

From the MOXF Owner’s Manual, page 16:

[PHONES] (Headphone) jack
This standard stereo phones jack is for connection to a set of
stereo headphones. This jack outputs audio signals identical
to those from the OUTPUT [L/MONO] and [R] jacks

Perhaps a Small Mixer would be a good way to pull down the main outputs while checking the sound in your headphones.

cmayhle - 20 July 2014 08:22 PM

I could be wrong, but as far as I know the signal of both the headphones and the main outputs function/don’t function together...that is, you cannot separate them within the machine.

Others with more specific knowledge of the signal path the machine uses can weigh-in...but the hardware solutions I suggested were based on this understanding.

From the MOXF Owner’s Manual, page 16:

[PHONES] (Headphone) jack
This standard stereo phones jack is for connection to a set of
stereo headphones. This jack outputs audio signals identical
to those from the OUTPUT [L/MONO] and [R] jacks

That’s correct, the signal going to the main outputs is what’s also fed to the headphone amp. There’s no internal means of separately controlling the Main and Phones outputs. This is true for the Classic Motif, ES, XS, XF, etc.

Use a volume pedal?

admin - 21 July 2014 10:28 AM

Use a volume pedal?

Unfortunately that will pull down the volume of the headphones as well, unless you are referring to a stereo inline pedal.

One of those is certainly another option.

I think the takeaway for the OP is that a hardware solution will be required.

cmayhle - 21 July 2014 10:47 AM

admin - 21 July 2014 10:28 AM

Use a volume pedal?

Unfortunately that will pull down the volume of the headphones as well, unless you are referring to a stereo inline pedal.

One of those is certainly another option.

I think the takeaway for the OP is that a hardware solution will be required.

But alas, the FC9 is discontinued. Much to my chagrin. I don’t know why, but it was a great pedal.

stoneb3 - 21 July 2014 12:15 PM

...But alas, the FC9 is discontinued. Much to my chagrin. I don’t know why, but it was a great pedal.

Yeah, it would probably want to be a BOSS or a Behringer, or similar.

Haven’t used either one personally.

The issue is easily solved if you plug your Mo XF into a mixer that has mute buttons for each channel. Then plug your headphones into the Mo XF’s headphone jack and play.

Aa far as I know, there is no keyboard that allows you to control the main outputs and headphone output independently.

Should have been more specific, an in-line pedal is indeed what I meant! Hopefully, the need / setting to do this is sufficiently professional so that an outboard mixer or more sophisticated pedal will be an appropriate solution.

MM