Volume pedals

[kboman]

What are you good people using? What are the pros/cons of active vs passive? The Ernie Ball VP Jr seemed like a sensible choice, but I've read several times that messes with your signal (a so-called "tone sucker").

There are way too many options out there to make an informed choice without asking around... :tard: And I'm really starting to feel the need for one now.

 

[animal control]

For the past few years I've been using a Boss FV500H and I am very happy with it. For 20 years I used an old Morley - can't remember the model but it worked by dropping a little curtain between the pilot light and an optical sensor. The mechanical construction made so much noise that I could hear it squeaking over the sound coming out of the amp. I run the boss pedal with a single TRS cable that puts it in front of my echo, but it also has jacks for 1/4" in and out. I was very pleasantly surprised by it - I'm a very heavy user of a volume pedal.

 

[Cagey]

You may want to look at the offerings from Mission Engineering. They have a pretty broad line of pedals for use as volume pedals, continuous controllers, etc. Very robust construction, much like the old cast Vox pedals. They're not cheap, but they're not unreasonable for what they are.

Beat the hell out of them, you can.​

 

[TBurst Std]

2nd on Mission pedals. Great stuff and James is great to work with. I use them to control my AXE-FX.

 

[Wyliee]

I've got a Visual Sound Visual Volume pedal and really like it.  Been using it for years.

 

[dNA]

I have been using the VP junior for years and have no complaints .Extremely rugged. My only warning is that you do NOT try to disassemble it yourself. It's internal mechanism is basically just a piece of string looped around a potentiometer and once taken off, I could not for the life of me figure out how to get it back on. Maybe if you have TINY fingers...

but other than that, it does it's job beautiful and you could easily kill someone by smashing them over the head with it if you were in a really desperate spot.

 

[pabloman]

After I bought my pink crybaby I gutted my jimi wah and put those guts in the pink housing. I used the black housing to make a volume pedal and I took the pink guts and put those in a hammond enclosure and now I have a fixed wah too. Works pretty good.

 

[kboman]

How about the Morley Little Alligator? Looks pretty rugged, very reasonably priced. Mission et al is way out of my price league at the moment.