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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Expression/volume pedal

From: Jack Younger <e4103s@yahoo.com>
Date: 2012-01-01

You will get more even response with an optical volume pedal.  Pots get scratchy and one never knows how smooth the taper will be.  Even with an expensive replacement pot, these problems happen.

I have the pedal portion of a '70's Morely Echo Delay pedal I got from an ebay purchase that turned up broken after shipping.  I was bummed out that the delay was dead but I've gotten my money's worth with a little elbow grease.  It's optical volume function is superb.....steady, smooth and dynamic.
  
I don't know how the new stand-alone Morely volume pedals stand up against this one, but it's worth a shot.  A lot of pedal steel players prefer optical pedals and so you may want to research what those guys like to use.  

Happy New Year!
-Jack 

From: Sean <fourtytwominds@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:01 PM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Expression/volume pedal
 
An hour of googling has been fruitless.

How do you guys get even response on a volume pedal?

At current I have an Ernie Ball VP Jr mono volume pedal. It's between the source and the amp. V. simple.

From heel to near full the pedal is fairly even but still quiet. In the last say... 1/8 to 1/16 of an inch of play it goes from quiet to full. It's pissing me off. It's pissing my band mates off. We either get not enough Hammond/Mellotron or WAY TOO DAMNED MUCH.

I'm capable of replacing the pot in the pedal no problem. What rating and taper am I looking for? No one on the google seems to know.

Thanks.

-Sean