guitar electronics

[Sky Blue Lou]

You know what? Maybe I should back off a bit on that. That's not the way my rig works but my volume pedal is built into the amp controls via foot controller. Regular ones may work differently.

The "volume" pots on a guitar are not volume - they are gain. If you have an amp set up for distortion at full guitar gain you can clean up the tone by backing off the "volume". It doesn't get much quieter in the top of the range but the tone cleans up substantially. I don't know if a volume pedal will clean up the tone if the guitar is on full gain. Mine does not - it just gets quieter.

I have always assumed that a volume pedal allows you to keep the tone you want and just reduce the volume. Assumptions aren't the definitive answer. I will defer to others to sort this aspect out.


lou

 

[Victory Pete]

You know what? Maybe I should back off a bit on that. That's not the way my rig works but my volume pedal is built into the amp controls via foot controller. Regular ones may work differently.

The "volume" pots on a guitar are not volume - they are gain. If you have an amp set up for distortion at full guitar gain you can clean up the tone by backing off the "volume". It doesn't get much quieter in the top of the range but the tone cleans up substantially. I don't know if a volume pedal will clean up the tone if the guitar is on full gain. Mine does not - it just gets quieter.

I have always assumed that a volume pedal allows you to keep the tone you want and just reduce the volume. Assumptions aren't the definitive answer. I will defer to others to sort this aspect out.


lou

My high gain amps will not clean up much with the volume pedal but my Plexi amps will. I also have a volume pedal built in to my Vox tonelab SE that will clean up well
VP

 

[Sky Blue Lou]

My high gain amps will not clean up much with the volume pedal but my Plexi amps will. I also have a volume pedal built in to my Vox tonelab SE that will clean up well
VP

My live rig is the Vox Valvetronix Blue series and the volume pedal is just that - volume. If I am using a heavy crunch tone and I just want to reduce the volume the pedal does that. If I want to clean it up - de-crunch it - I back off the guitar gain.


lou

 

[Kingofpain678]

oh ok. well im just gonna keep this guitar in the studio so making level adjustments on the guitar dont have to be split second moves.

ill work around it when playing live.

 

[Sky Blue Lou]

A volume pedal is a handy thing to have for gigging. Get one and then you'll find out how your guitars and amps interact with it and each other.


lou

 

[Light]

Volume pedals are great for doing just that, I use mine instead of rolling down my guitar volume to get cleaner tones.
VP

Say what? I don't fuckin' think so.


lou

No, he's actually not talking out of his ass this time. If you put the volume pedal before your amp/fuzz pedal stuff, it will actually work just like the volume on your guitar. After all, that's exactly what it is - a volume control. Remember, if you let a monkey type long enough, eventually he'll produce some Shakespeare!


Light

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