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Topic: How Do Volume Pedals Differ (Ernie Ball vs Goodrich, etc.)? |
Mark Helm
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2020 1:43 pm |
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Hey, gang:
I'm a non-pedal player and haven't ever used a volume pedal, but I'm thinking about getting one and have a question:
I have my reliable old Ernie Ball 6180 volume pedal from when I was in a band playing lead guitar. It had a pretty wide/severe range to it, Wasn't especially expensive as I recall, maybe $70 new.
How do the Goodrich or Sho-bud pedals (which are typically more than double the price) differ from the Ernie Ball or, say, Vox guitar volume pedals?
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 12 Oct 2020 2:43 pm
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A pedal designed for pedal steel is not so much a volume pedal (for adjusting volume) as an expression pedal for shaping the sustain. It therefore suffers much more intensive use as it is in more or less constant operation and requires a heavy-duty potentiometer.
It's also designed for a seated position.
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Michael Hill
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2020 7:44 pm
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| When I started pedal steel I used a Boss volume pedal which I already owned. It worked perfectly for pedal steel. I later updated to a Goodrich passive volume pedal which is way nicer but functioned the same. |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 12 Oct 2020 11:47 pm
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| Michael Hill wrote: |
| When I started pedal steel I used a Boss volume pedal which I already owned. It worked perfectly for pedal steel. I later updated to a Goodrich passive volume pedal which is way nicer but functioned the same. |
I went the other way. Have had a Goodrich passive VP for a long time, but prefer a (cheap) BOSS VP under my PSGs.
Ergonomy, brand, looks, solidity, and where the jacks are, differ slightly between the "ideal" passive VP for PSG and one for stand-up guitar. To some these differences matter, to others not so much.
In entirely passive setups; the lighter load provided by a 500K ohm VP pot is the norm for PSG PUs, while a 250K ohm VP pot suits 6-string guitar PUs better.
With a pre-VP buffer in place; the lower the VP pot "impedance" (resistance) the better. Anything greater than 10K works with most (probably all) pre-VP buffers on the market, following the general rule that load "impedance" should be at least 10 times higher than the output "impedance" feeding it, and output impedance should be as low as possible; most (probably all) pre-VP buffers have an output "impedance" lower than 1K ohm. |
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