Hey Smarter People than I am.
Wanting to purchase a Volume Pedal for my guitar pedal board. Basically, it will be the first thing in the chain. Followed by a Fuzz, then a Wah, then a Buffer... then everything else.
Guitar wise, currently everything I have has active pickups - either EMG's or the Active Maton accoustic.
From what I've read, this should mean that I need the volume pedal to have an Impedance around 25k to 50k...
However... I'm hope to buy a PRS Custom 24 in the next year or so... which will be passive, and so apparently require a "normal" impedance of 250k. So... apparently, I need a totally different volume pedal for the PRS, than the EMG Strats...
..unless I run an active pedal after my buffer I guess?
BUT, the Ernie Ball 40th Anniversary is non-powered, but claims to work with both Passive AND Active pickups? It's 250k? Are they doing something really clever, or have they just decided it doesn't matter, or have I missed something completely? Their other pedals are marketed for either Active or Passive pickups.
Simon "Smash" Ashby.
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Volume Pedal Impedance and Active / Passive pickups
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Re: Volume Pedal Impedance and Active / Passive pickups
Hey Smash,
I have a volume pedal I use with a lapsteel for pedal style swells.
It's a lo impedence pedal (like the one you'd probably be looking at with your active pickups).
It works fine / has never been an issue although technically it probably produces an impedance mismatch.
I think you could probably stick a buffer pedal before it if you got a different guitar and you found it was actually a problem.
YMMV.
I have a volume pedal I use with a lapsteel for pedal style swells.
It's a lo impedence pedal (like the one you'd probably be looking at with your active pickups).
It works fine / has never been an issue although technically it probably produces an impedance mismatch.
I think you could probably stick a buffer pedal before it if you got a different guitar and you found it was actually a problem.
YMMV.
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Re: Volume Pedal Impedance and Active / Passive pickups
I ended up getting a good price on a Mission Engineering VM-Pro, so hopefully that will take care of everything.
Cheers,
S>
Simon "Smash" Ashby.
Cheers,
S>
Simon "Smash" Ashby.
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Re: Volume Pedal Impedance and Active / Passive pickups
RE: PRS Cu24
Just remember if you are buying the S2 version it will have Asian made pickups in it . They sound nothing like the USA made PRS pickups.
Just remember if you are buying the S2 version it will have Asian made pickups in it . They sound nothing like the USA made PRS pickups.
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