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Colin
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EB makes a great selection of Volume pedals...
MrMusashi
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hehe.. buy an eb volume pedal.. built like a tank and it has a smooth/even response that makes it easy to use..
not like the v*x pedal where everything happens at a very small motion of the foot. impossible to control, almost like tryin to play a fender valve amp at low volume.. between 0 and 1 its so sensitive you either dont hear a thing, or you blast all your hair backwards
MrM
not like the v*x pedal where everything happens at a very small motion of the foot. impossible to control, almost like tryin to play a fender valve amp at low volume.. between 0 and 1 its so sensitive you either dont hear a thing, or you blast all your hair backwards
MrM
Musicman Nut
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That's all fine I guess if your gonna do Pedal Steel Guitar Swells.
Caca de Kick
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Yeah, whats wrong with the volume knob on the bass?
Volume Pedal
Volume swells are very cool. I use the pedal for numerous reasons..
1. Changing Basses.. If you have your volume turned down you would still get plug noise
2. Changing from different styles of playing in mid-song. Slapping vs. finger playing vs. Chord playing to pick playing all change the volume.
3. Tuner in line. The eb pedals have a tuner out that works while the volume is down.
4. If the dang guitar player starts toget to loud you can easily turn up to w/o having to leave the strings.
5. VOLUME SWELLS!
Volume swells are very cool. I use the pedal for numerous reasons..
1. Changing Basses.. If you have your volume turned down you would still get plug noise
2. Changing from different styles of playing in mid-song. Slapping vs. finger playing vs. Chord playing to pick playing all change the volume.
3. Tuner in line. The eb pedals have a tuner out that works while the volume is down.
4. If the dang guitar player starts toget to loud you can easily turn up to w/o having to leave the strings.
5. VOLUME SWELLS!
tadawson
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If you use a distortion pedal/compressor/etc., then a pedal is nice too - you can control volume AFTER the effects, and not change the drive into them, as would the knob on you bass. IE, you get the distortion dialed in juuuuust right, and then need to change volume . . . with the pedal, same sound, different volume. With the controls on the bass, you change the drive into the pedal, and the entire sound changes . . .
Oh, and my vol pedal is a Morley - I like the optical design. No pot to wear out or drive wire/string to break . . . but don't tell BP . . .
- Tim
Oh, and my vol pedal is a Morley - I like the optical design. No pot to wear out or drive wire/string to break . . . but don't tell BP . . .
- Tim
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spaceman
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I have a Morley combined volume/fuzz/wah pedal (I wanted to sound like John Wetton in the Larks' Tongues in Aspic/Red era). However, although it's pretty good in some ways, it turned out to be rather unreliable (I got it used on ebay). Morley were very good about fixing it, but the pedal failed again quickly after each repair. Also, it really sucks the treble out of the tone. Unfortunately Ernie Ball don't appear to make an equivalent type of pedal (yet?).
Colin
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well done, that pedal will out live us all...
