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Topic: volume control help |
Bob Ripperden
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2010 10:00 am |
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can anyone tell me the answer to this?...I have an amp that the volume control is very sensitive..when I turn it past #3 on the knob it is very loud..it's ok if I play my fender because the pot is 250k but if I play my steel I have to turn the knob down to like #1
so maybe I could install a pot on my steel leave the amp on 3 turn the steel down and yet use my volume pedal. I don't want to get into the amp. Would having a pot plus a volume pedal change the sound of the steel or that so called sweet spot?
thanks,
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2010 10:02 am
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Bob
it might help if we knew what kind of amp your talking about
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Bob Ripperden
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2010 10:06 am
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hi, it is a Fender Princeton 112
Bob |
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Barry Hyman
From:
upstate New York, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2010 5:18 pm
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Having a potentiometer on the steel would change the tone as well as the volume, yes. What's wrong with having the amp at volume one? That's where I leave my tube amp most of the time. Many amps have nonlinear volume controls. The trick is just to get it right at the beginning of the gig and then not try to change it in a hurry. I have a cheap transistorized Fender practice amp, and volume two is too soft and two and a half is ear-splitting. So I carefully go for two and a quarter. Why not try something like that before you attempt surgery on the steel or the amp?
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Gianni Gori
From:
Livorno, Italy
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 2:58 am
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I do agree with Barry.
On my MSA I have volume and tone pots but I installed a bypass switch (just like the one available as an option in those years). I keep those pots bypassed most of times...
Paying a lil' attention in setting the volume pot on the amp is the best way to fix your problem.
Shouldn't you be satisfied, you may evaluate making an external passive "volume box" and plug it between guitar and volume pedal.
It just takes an enclosure, two jack sockets and one pot, and eventually a stomp switch (if you need a wiring diagram just ask).
But... don't make on the steel any mod you may regret!  |
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