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Topic: Volume Pedal |
Randy Gilliam
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2023 11:07 am |
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| Just Bought a new Telonics Super Pro Volume Pedal. It cleaned my effects up. This is a great buy. $599.00 If you are tired of a Muddy sound go for it you can thank me later! Randy G. |
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Samuel Phillippe
From:
Douglas Michigan, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2023 5:42 pm
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That's more than I payed for my psg.....lol
Sam |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2023 7:50 am
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$600 for a volume pedal is definitely not a great buy. But if it does what you need it to do, it may have been an essential buy.
High-wound single coil and humbucker pickups can sound clear and bright as your amp will take them if you plug your guitar straight into the amp input. The question of how to get that sound through a low tech volume pedal is to place the pedal after the preamp in an effects loop. That’s what the Peavey Nashville amps are set up to do. They used to cost what, about $400?
The only drawback to the fx loop signal chain method is that it allows the full gain setting of the preamp into the sound no matter what level the volume pedal is. I happen to like that, but fans of the crystalline sparkly clean sound might not. |
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Dave Stagner
From:
Minnesota, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2023 8:18 am
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A Sarno Freeloader (or even a Black Box) is cheaper, and cleans up impedance issues just as well. I had a Goodrich optical pedal for a while, and it sounded about the same as the Freeloader into a pot pedal (right down to the tunable loading).
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2023 8:49 am
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| The Forum could sure use a Frequently Answered Questions section for each topic section. The “volume pedal tone suck” question would be near the top in number of hits. |
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Randy Gilliam
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2023 6:19 pm Volume Pedal
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| I have tried everything listed and this was the best combination for me. Glad I bought one ! |
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David Wisson
From:
Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
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Posted 10 Dec 2023 2:01 am
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| Hi Randy I made my own volume pedal that I use on all of my posted songs. I use an emmons pedal with a small dual 100k pot and two Silonex opto isolators wired like a pot. No moving parts in the audio line. The pot has 5v across it to drive the LEDs in the isolators. Total cost £10 Dave 😊 |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2023 6:05 am
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2023 8:38 am
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The issue is tone suck, not who uses a pot pedal and doesn’t have a problem with tone suck.
If the volume pedal in your signal chain is the source of your trouble, there are remedies that work. It doesn’t have to mean buying a new $600 pedal, or a magic buffer box, or a new pickup, or reconfiguring your signal chain, or geeking out with a soldering iron and 10 bucks worth of electronic parts that half of us here can’t spell the names of. But any one of those solutions will probably work.
Give the guy a break. He fixed the problem and is happy with the solution. Way to go, mister. |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2023 11:04 am
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A new set of cables in the circuit cured my problem. When I went to a Quilter Tone Block 202 my tone went south.
I had used a set of George L .145 cables for years, Nashville 400, 2 Evans Amps and rack box with Tubefex and power amp, No problems with tone.
I even reset the connectors on the small cables, No help.
I got a set of new .240 diameter cables, I had the tone I wanted. Cost me $30.00. |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2023 11:23 am
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| Excellent advice, Bobby. Thanks. |
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Ray Mangrum
From:
Nashville, TN.
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Posted 11 Dec 2023 9:12 am Good Morning,
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| Tried calling you, but msg said your mail box had not been setup. Anyway, just checking to see how you like the Zum, Ray |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 11 Dec 2023 10:27 am Re: Good Morning,
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| Ray Mangrum wrote: |
| Tried calling you, but msg said your mail box had not been setup. Anyway, just checking to see how you like the Zum, Ray |
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Justin Shaw
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 11 Dec 2023 12:34 pm
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| Bobby D. Jones wrote: |
I got a set of new .240 diameter cables, I had the tone I wanted. Cost me $30.00. |
Hey Bobby good to hear! Could you share the brand? |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2023 11:37 pm
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I got a D'Addario DIY Kit. Kit contains 40ft of .240 cable, 10 solderless plugs, Cutter and screwdriver in kit. I ordered 2 extra solderless plugs. With this I built 3 sets of cables, 3 cables about 3 foot 1 inch, 3 cables about 10 foot 1 inch long.
1 set at home, 1 set in seat, A local steeler has 3rd set trying them in his setup. |
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Justin Shaw
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 12 Dec 2023 10:04 am
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| OH OK sounds good thank you |
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