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These are the two main possibilities for volume pedals right now, if there is something better in this price range, let me know.
The poll is just to see who thinks what.
I'm kinda hoping some people have personel experience with these.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...dal?sku=151689 the vox
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...dal?sku=152107 the earnie ball
i little while ago i saw a thread on volume pedals, and i heard the earnie ball suggested a bit.
I want something really durable, not that i'll be throwing it around.
i've been looking at the vox for a long time, i only heard of earnie ball volume pedals a few days ago here.
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The worship leader in my church bought an Ernie Ball identical to that one there, and within about a year it was dead. It didn't go very noticiably... it just kept cutting off more and more of the signal until I realized that with his overdrive on and the drive turned all the way up, it was still clean.
Now we use it to hold up one of the monitors.
I would be more inclined to go with a Dunlop, personally. I've owned a ton of different Dunlop pedals, and none of them have ever had any problems.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...dal?sku=151003
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I use the Ernie Ball with no issues. If you really beat it up, it'll probably break down on you, but if you're nice, it should stay fine.
What I do with mine a lot, though, is run it in reverse through my amp's fx loop, and use the tuner out as a second input. My acoustic runs through that jack, and my electric through the other, and the "in" jack then acts as an output for both, and the motion of the sweep actually blends the two signals.
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Originally Posted by guitargeek6298 The worship leader in my church bought an Ernie Ball identical to that one there, and within about a year it was dead. It didn't go very noticiably... it just kept cutting off more and more of the signal until I realized that with his overdrive on and the drive turned all the way up, it was still clean.
Now we use it to hold up one of the monitors.
I would be more inclined to go with a Dunlop, personally. I've owned a ton of different Dunlop pedals, and none of them have ever had any problems.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...dal?sku=151003
do you have experience with this one?
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I actually really like my rogue pedal. *ducks rocks and other flying debris*
It isn't the quality of the other ones but for 10 bucks i don't think it can be beat. I can spend the extra cash on other pedals or on my fiance'.
Unless you use a volume pedal fairly regularly and are hard on it (both of which I am not) I recommend getting something cheap/used and going from there.
Is this your first volume pedal? If you're experimenting and not using it much I'd check out the rogue. This may be the one exception to my sig.
-shane
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Originally Posted by Rainer. What I do with mine a lot, though, is run it in reverse through my amp's fx loop, and use the tuner out as a second input. My acoustic runs through that jack, and my electric through the other, and the "in" jack then acts as an output for both, and the motion of the sweep actually blends the two signals. Not to go too far off topic, but that is a great idea. Wow, I'd never thought about that. I had no idea a volume pedal could work in reverse. Have you ever had any issues working your pedal like this?
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I've had my Ernie Ball volume pedals for years (both passive and active). I've never had an issue. They're built like a tank, and they appear to be of fairly simple design... so if anything were to go wrong, it wouldn't require much knowledge to fix it.
I love that idea about reversing the Ernie Ball to mix two different inputs. That's ingenuity for you!
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If the Ernie Ball has a problem, it's most likely the string. The kit to fix/replace it is about $5 or so.
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+1 for the Ernie Ball. I've been using one for a while now with no problems.
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earnie ball has been getting a good review, but someone said on quiet it loses its crunch. I need something that stays just as crunchy with high volume as low.
In a vox review i read once, a metal player said its stays with the crunch and distortion at low volumes.
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Originally Posted by Benny Hicks Not to go too far off topic, but that is a great idea. Wow, I'd never thought about that. I had no idea a volume pedal could work in reverse. Have you ever had any issues working your pedal like this?
No "issues". A volume pedal is a pretty simple device. Though the sweep of the pedal is a little different, a little more on the front end though not a huge deal.
Originally Posted by earlessdog earnie ball has been getting a good review, but someone said on quiet it loses its crunch. I need something that stays just as crunchy with high volume as low.
In a vox review i read once, a metal player said its stays with the crunch and distortion at low volumes.
That's not about which volume pedal, but where you put it.
If you put it between the guitar and the amp, it'll control the amount of distortion, in other words, when you back the pedal off, there will be less distortion.
If you put it in the amp's effects loop, then it will control the overall volume, you won't lose gain when you back the pedal off, it'll be just as distorted, just at lower volume.
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What is the difference between a Passive and an Active volume pedal besides the power/lack thereof? Is one better?
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As far as the Ernie Balls go, neither the "active" nor the "passive" volumes are powered. The difference between the two is that one is designed for active pickups, and one is designed for passive pickups, because of their different value potentiometers.
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If the Ernie Ball has a problem, it's most likely the string. The kit to fix/replace it is about $5 or so.
At least in my friends, it's not. I took it apart to see if I could just resolder a connection or something, but I didn't see anything visably loose or broken.
But apparently many people have had a different experience with it.
To answer your question earlessdog, no, I do not have experience with the Dunlop volume pedal, just other dunlop pedals.
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So, I have a PRS CE 22 with Dragon II humbuckers with 5-way rotary wiring. Are my pickups passive or active?