Help a musician with his invention

Fishteacher73 · 03-02-2005

What knob is it any way? I bet there is a pedal that you can get that does the same effect, just leaving the setting on the pre-amp the same.

orbsycli · 03-02-2005

there's nothing in the back of the amp that has been made for this kind of pedal, trust me i've looked.

it's the FX LEVEL knob used to adjust the mix of the bussed out effects, which is my gt-6.

C1ay · 03-02-2005

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Originally Posted by orbsycli

it's a turning knob that smoothly goes back and fourth that i want to route to a foot pedal so i can control how much depth there is in my bussed-out effects.
i have a bunch of floor pedals too that go through my signal path to my amp.

I realize that. I was suggesting that you could remotely locate that knob into a foot pedal yourself if you're electrically inclined. Turtle's solution sounds better though.

Fishteacher73 · 03-02-2005

Just pull the leads going into th knob and wire them to a 1/4" jack. Run a cord from this jack to a standard volume control pedal. Run the output back to another 1/4" jack wired to the return lines from the knob. Voila--you have a foot controlled input level knob. All for probably less than 100 bucks. (The biggest chunk being the pedal itself). As long as the knob is a rheostat-type and the pedal is too, I think this should work.

Buffy · 03-02-2005

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Originally Posted by Fishteacher73

Just pull the leads going into th knob and wire them to a 1/4" jack. Run a cord from this jack to a standard volume control pedal. ...

That's basically what I was describing, which sounds like its what you want if its the FX in level that you want to control. Are we missing something here?

The Moogerfooger stuff is amazing, but I haven't forked over the dough for it. It would be a good replacement for what your Roland does, but the control processor/pedal doesn't work with anything but the MF effects boxes themselves, so I don't think that does what you're looking for.

Cheers,
Buffy

orbsycli · 03-02-2005

we are all on the same page now, excellent. the problem is i know nothing about this kind of stuff. im going to open up my amp head and take a picture of it or something.

orbsycli · 03-02-2005

couldn't take any pictures. i opened it up, and found it impossible to view the knob-part of all of the electronics. i'm going to need to hire a professional engineer or something.

Buffy · 03-02-2005

Sorry to be dense here, but lemme back up: You want to control the FX return knob because the output of different combos of FX boxes and/or selections aren't the same. It seems like there are two ways to go about doing this:

Rip apart a volume/rheostat pedal and rip appart your amp head. wire the loop in the pedal in place of the wires connected to the FX return knob.
Put a volume pedal as the last link from your FX network and plug it into the FX return. Set the FX return knob to a "happy medium setting." Adjust the volume pedal knobs to similar copacetic settings. Frob the pedal when you switch effects.

The nice thing about option 2 of course is that it involves no ripping apart, soldering, or voiding of warranties.

Is this not what you're looking for?

Confused,
Buffy