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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know I've become more of a lurker here, but I wanted share about a new volume pedal: Dunlop DVP-1. I've tried Korgs and Yamahas, which failed because I think they were meant for keyboards, but they were cheap since my wife's piano playing friend is forced by his wife to keep getting rid of gear so what the heck ... Anyway, they had definite tone suck. The ernie balls, vpjr and a stereo pedal, to my ear, added just a touch of treble (I know, how can a passive volume pedal add treble, but that's what I heard) and felt a little rickety. This dunlop though, is totally clear, clean, smooth and solid, with a non-linear taper. It works at either the beginning or the end of the signal chain, which contains both buffered and unbuffered pedals. It's found a home at the end of the chain. It's such a simple thing. Volume swells are smooth, volume control, sustain extending, and trem effects are easy. It really is a lot of fun.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Keyboard volume pedals are low impedence (around 50K ohms).
Guitar volume pedals are high impedence (around 500K ohms).
So the type does mater.
If you want some more treble at highest volume, you can change the control to 1M ohms (not always easy)! | |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The dunlop has a 250k pot, as did the balls, but for some reason it sounds better, really transparent. The reason I used the korg and yamaha, i thought that they were geared for an active signal, after a buffer, they would work ... well they didn't work for me. The yamaha was an fc-9 ... I forget what the korg was ... BUT the dvp-1 is excellent for guitar sans doubt. | |
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