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benlindell said:What works better, shorting or non-shorting switches?
The problem with an EQ like this is that you are switching capacitors. It does not matter if you have shorting or non-shorting contacts, the capacitor still needs to get charged and so you can get clicks. Having said that, there should be no dc on these capacitors so there should be nothing to cause switching clicks. if you do get clicks, the type of contacts used will not help. The cure would be to wire 4.7Meg resistors across adjacent pairs of contacts so there is a dc path for all the caps to charge through but in the prototype I built I did not find this necessary.
So, in short you are probably OK using either.
Cheers
Ian