Recommendations needed please! Controlling gain.

[litepipe]

Most people ride their volume knob on their guitar for this. It just a volume pedals before the OCD. Back if volume, cleans up.

[fastlanestoner]

Agreed it would be hard to control that in the heat of battle. You're better of using the pots like the above poster said, or fixing your pups so that your bridge has a volume boost. splitting hairs

[Ree Fungorio]

Thanks for the replies; I know the volume knob is probably the best but 1) I need to do it while I'm playing and singing, and 2) I mainly use an Eastwood 3P DLX, and the volume knob is very poorly placed for this. I was just hoping there was something like an a/b/y box that could be controlled with a "treadle" type instead of a switch.

I can do it with my line 6 M13 and an expression pedal but I don't want to lug it around just for that. I suppose I could invest in the M5 or whatever the single one is called but I am not a huge fan of the ODs/dist in there. As far as a volume pedal, I want to keep the volumes somewhat the same, and have had not-so-good results mainly because I can't consistently get the backed-off position the same.

I remember there being some contraption like this with a cable that would actually turn the knob on the pedal but I can't seem to find it and it seemed a little hokey.

Thanks GSers, I'll keep trying to find a solution!

Ree

[Johnny Favorite]

a volume pedal is like a volume knob, but at your foot. . just put it before the OD.

Can`t think of a better solution.

[Johnny Favorite]

Ahhhh! 'little contraption that turns knobs". It`s called 3rd Hand. wish I had 6.

Musictoyz.com: Tone In Progress 3rd Hand

[Johnny Favorite]

But then again, you`d turn what? OD gain? doesn`t it make you louder as you increase it? you`d screw your mix at every step. Volume pedal seems to be the most elegant solution.

[drbob1]

Pigtronix Keymaster and a $50 CV pedal, done. From the manual:

"Keymaster lets a musician crossfade between different effects (or entire pedal boards) with a standard expression pedal. "

Since it has a million other uses in the studio, it's a good investment! If you want a cheaper alternative, ask Loooper or This1smyne to build you a parallel effects loop pedal with the mix knob replaced by a CV jack.

[Johnny Favorite]

I just recomended the keymaster on other thread and forgot all about it on this one.

Keymaster it is.

[Silent Sound]

Boss made a PD-1 distortion pedal that does that. Interesting, but I don't care for the sound of the distortion.

If I were going to go about this, I'd probably take a wah or volume pedal and rewire it myself to sweep between two different loops. I'd probably try a dual ganged pot so I'd be seeping both the input and output of each line (clean/distortion). Hard to say what would be the best way to go about this without trying a couple of different ways though. I'm not an electrical engineer.

Also, I always hate how so many people always say "use the volume knob on your guitar" like that's the only right way to control overdrive. There are so many ways to go about this, and none of them are wrong. It's as valid as any other for sure, but by no means the best. It's also not the "purist" way to control OD for all you elitists out there. That would be controlling dynamics with your hands by picking and fretting with sensitivity, just like people have been doing for hundreds of years on acoustics.

... Sorry. Narrow mindedness, especially from the old guard, is a hot button of mine. And my rant wasn't directed at anyone here specifically. It's just a common theme among questions like this on the internet.

[Ree Fungorio]

Thank you for the keymaster. It's exactly what I want to try but had a hard time explaining.

Thanks a million folks!

Ree