Volume Pedal

[jimilee]

Is there a reason nobody builds volume pedals? I'd like to have one I'm pretty sure and building pedals is way cooler than buying them for sure.

[jkokura]

Mostly cause you can get one cheaper.

The problem is largely the enclosure. Wah enclosures do not make for a good volume pedal (IMO), and that's all that's available. So, you could make one custom, but then you're spending more. Or, you can get a Volume pedal going using a custom wah enclosure, but they're about $45 before shipping and volume pot...

Jacob

[jimilee]

Mostly cause you can get one cheaper.

The problem is largely the enclosure. Wah enclosures do not make for a good volume pedal (IMO), and that's all that's available.
Jacob

That's the part I was uncertain about. I know I hadn't seen the enclosures anywhere. Thanks!

[BraindeadAudio]

There is a fairly easy mod to turn a WAH pedal into a volume pedal. I did it to my Crybaby, I will try to find what I did...Its on a switch.

[jeffaroo]

Question.....lots of overdrive and fuzz pedals rely on the user to manipulate the volume knob on the guitar to drive the thing. if i was to open the volume pot 100%, would a volume pedal do the same thing or not

[djaaz]

One interesting thing would be to list or brainstorm about modding the popular volume out there to do a bit more than it was intended or designed to.

I would love to use a switch somehow to use it as an expression pedal for instance.

[jonrhee]

Theres the Anderton project on tonepad for a buffered splitter.

http://www.tonepad.com/project.asp?id=12

I'm working on a fabbed PCB version for it at the moment.

[jonrhee]

There was this one too.
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=7023.0

Upon further consideration I'm probably going to base mine off this bad boy
http://www.muzique.com/lab/splitter.htm