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.
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
Quote from: jkokura on November 27, 2012, 03:55:20 AM
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!
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.
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 ???
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.
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.
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