control voltage pedal

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In a message dated 8/13/0 9:04:46 AM, you wrote:

<<n a message dated 8/12/00 9:38:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
skin_job at hotmail.com writes:

> I recently bought a used Morley expression/volume pedal which, when you 
>  input a 5V signal to the input jack, will operate as a c/v pedal.
>  
>  I've gotten tired of having to connect a long damned cable from my lfo (or 
>  whatever) to "power" the pedal, and am looking for another means of doing 
>  it.
>  
>  What I've been looking at was possibly getting a 5v wall wort and setting 
it 
> 
>  up to power the pedal. Anyone done this? I can only find the wall worts 
with 
> 
>  a 3.5mm plug. Will a simple 3.5mm to 1/4in connector work? Will my damned 
>  idea work at all? I have no electronics training, but have put together my 
>  share of kits. Trying to do custom stuff now.
>  
>  Any help or suggestions on this would be appreciated.

You don't mention what you're trying to connect, so this may or may not be 
plausible in this instnace:  Replace the CV input jack on the gear you're 
trying to control.  Change it from a mono (TS) connector to a stereo (TRS) 
jack.  Find a voltage source inside the gear, and put 5V on the ring 
connection, and connect the input to the tip.

Now with a little creative rewiring on your volume pedal you can use a single 
TRS cable to supply the power and return the CV.  

Dave Magnuson
>>

[Er, Um:  Apologies to Dave M. for sending this post to him instead of mail 
list.  -K.]

To be filed under PROBABLY NOT SMART/VERY QUICK & DIRTY:

I wire up a 9v battery clip to a 1/4" plug (to plug in vol. pedal) and use a 
semi-depleted 9 volt battery as a VC pedal source.  

Rigging your LFO as the VC source_can_be cool when you want some real-time 
attenuation/LFO depth control.

Back to lurking/doing inadvisable things,
Kevin