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Like this ...
or like this....
The 'direct through' goes via these connections and is broken when you plug in, which then sends the signal to the pedal.
[edit] I've found what I was looking for now - this is the diagram you need, 'single-normalled' should be fine...
Note: this diagram shows 'balanced' trs sockets ('stereo' sockets). You'll only need mono sockets for your patchbox.
Full article on patchbays here.
First of all, lose the direct tip-tip connection between in and out - it goes via the 'normalled' switch.
Secondly, only the 'normalled' connections of the send-return are connected together. This is the connection that is broken when you insert a plug.
I can't find a diagram online and I'm unable to draw one for you at the moment. I'll have time to draw one out later if you haven't sussed it by then.
I always think of this stuff like plumbing - think of the electrical connections as the flow of water. You need two separate paths - the 'signal' and the 'ground' or 'earth'.
I've grabbed 10 minutes with a pencil and paper and scanned a diagram. Hopefully, this will make sense to you ...
I've always had a kind of 'electronics dyslexia' myself. Although I was pretty good at physyics at school, I always had a problem with electronics - Ohm's law got me every time, even though I understood it I'd always make stupid mistakes! To this day, I get in and out, positive and negative muddled for no good reason. I have to double-, even triple-check every time I solder something up. Something's obviously not quite 'wired up' right in my brain.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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The other thing I did with mine (in order to save space) was to omit the in/out jacks and have hard-wired cables instead, direct to the send/return jacks.
@markblack In regard to the diagram above, that would mean connecting the red wire at the send socket direct to the unswitched lug. And the same with the ground wire on both send and return sockets - bothe wires to the unswitched lug.