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Topic: Stereo volume pedal question |
David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2005 10:54 am |
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| Is there a true stereo volume pedal, in which I can feed it two separate 1/4" signals, and the action of the pedal will raise and lower the volume of each signal and feed them out to stereo outputs, without mixing the signals? |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2005 11:15 am
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Try froogle with
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"volume pedal" stereo
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and you can see plenty of them. There are a couple of models at only $29.95. Unfortunately most of them have I/O jacks at the end by your toes so you can't put it where you usually do for pedal steel guitar. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 6 Sep 2005 12:11 pm
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Goodrich used to have a stereo model of the 120. Don't know if they still make it.
Franklin has made stereo volume pedals and there may be more around. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2005 12:48 pm
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Do you have a stereo pedal steel?
Erv |
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 6 Sep 2005 7:57 pm
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| The pickup on a steel guitar creates one signal, unless there are two pickups. If the output signal of one pickup is "Y"ed, you have two separate outputs that are split. You can also split the signal of one pickup with an effect box. For example, the Peavey Pro Fex II has one input, and two separate outputs. This is how many people split the signal from one pickup into a stereo signal, creating two separate channels. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 7 Sep 2005 6:54 am
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I split my signal mechanically, and use one side for tube overdrive and the other for reverb and delay functions. The problem is that there's some compression on both channels, so putting a volume pedal at the beginning is ineffective. I need to pull two lines off the back of my rack, into a stereo volume pedal, then feed two lines back into the mixer.
(Tube distortion sounds MUCH better if it's not going through reverb, and vice-versa.) |
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Keith Hilton
From:
248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
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Posted 7 Sep 2005 8:59 am
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| David, I think Paul Franklin Senior is still making a stereo POT pedal. It has two POTS in it. Check Paul's pedals out. The distortion you like to hear is probably being altered by input and output impediances, unless you hook up a certain way. There are ways of over-coming impedance problems where the distortion unit you like to hear will work with other hook up methods. |
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