How To Connect Volume Pedal Keyboard To Mixer | Volume Pedal Connect Kaise Kare

How To Connect Volume Pedal Keyboard To Mixer | Volume Pedal Connect Kaise Kare

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How to use a Volume Pedal
The volume pedal is a pretty amazing piece of gear, and I don’t think most people realize all that they can do with it. It’s usually seen as this simple volume control device-- which is accurate --but it also holds within it magic. In this article, we’re going to unpack some of that magic. Now, the volume pedal gets oversimplified. Yeah, it turns the volume on your guitar up or down, but guitar is all about volume and dynamic, so there are some really fascinating effects you can add by using a volume pedal in unexpected ways.

Volume pedals have been around since the early sixties. The earliest volume pedals came from a company called Vox, who created these devices to plug into organs**, so we can see the evolution of putting your foot on a device to raise and lower volume coming from Hammond organs or Vox-style organs. Then Fender came out with giant, toaster-sized volume pedals, and afterwards, the idea was picked up by companies like DeArmond.

**I’m referring to the musical instrument, not organs in the human body, although that would be pretty metal.

In the seventies, Ernie Ball released the VP, which I would call the perfect volume pedal. It's essentially a pot with a string around it, and as you pull it up and down, you're just turning the knobs. It's almost like turning the knob of your guitars, it’s just at your feet. There are some other styles of this, like the Visual Sound Visual Volume, which is a crazy feat of engineering because it shows the LED status of the pedal, and over-the-top stuff like the Sonuus Voluum, which does volume effects as well.

Some pedals use optical sensors instead of a string and pot system, and the Lehle Mono Volume Pedal uses a magnetic sensor-- basically, when the toe of the pedal is pressed down, it gets closer to a magnet, which affects the circuit. Fancier pedals, like the Ernie Ball Tuner Pedal, include extra features like a guitar tuner.

I could literally talk about pedal history all day, so let’s get to the fun stuff. And by “fun stuff” I mean “magical tricks for your volume pedal.”

Using a Volume Pedal with a Fuzz

First, we're going to do a little trick that I love to do with the BC108 Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face, which you can buy new, though this would work with any germanium or silicon vintage-style fuzz.

Basically, you turn the fuzz pedal up all the way up and you use your guitar’s volume knob to clean it up. When you do this, some of the best clean sounds in the world are rolling off your volume on your guitar with a fuzz face on and the fuzz maxed out. It's strange. It defies logic, but it's really awesome. It's a great tone. This is also a really handy option if you’re playing a guitar, like the Les Paul, that doesn’t have an easily accessible volume knob on the guitar itself. How cool would it be to have a volume control like that at your foot?

It’s very easy to do: you take a passive volume pedal like the Ernie Ball (“passive” meaning that there's no circuit in this; it's literally just a pot) and you put it in front of the fuzz.

Now, I can already see the mobs with pitchforks and torches coming at me for this. I know that I’ve told you guys roughly ten thousand times to never ever put anything in front of a vintage fuzz. I stand by that. This is a passive pedal, which interacts with the fuzz in a completely different way, which means that it’s safe to put it in front of the fuzz on your pedalboard. You max out the fuzz knob, and then start to back it off using your volume pedal, cleaning it up. The results are some truly magical sweet spots of beautiful, clean tone.

Coincidentally, this method works just as well if you use a drive pedal like the JHS SuperBolt in place of the fuzz.


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