Re: midi volume pedal

[Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>]

Yeah, they're cheesy potentiometers.  I've had those Italian pedals fail 
within an unreasonable amount of time.
You can try to fix it by moving the pedal back and forth really quickly 
for 
about 30 secs.

t

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Peters" <mp@mpeters.de>
To: <pmc10@yahoogroups.com>; "Loopers Delight" 
<Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Cc: "Leander Reininghaus" <starscape@gmx.de>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:31 AM
Subject: midi volume pedal


> can anyone recommend a good but very lightweight volume pedal that can be
> used as a midi volume pedal (in my case, connected to a PMC-10 and used
> inside of Bidule)? my Ernie Ball volume pedal is too heavy for 
>travelling,
> and my cheap blue plastic Italian volume pedals are much too flakey - 
>when 
> I
> connect them to a visual gain control on my screen, their action doesn't
> move smoothly from bottom to top (as the Ernie Ball pedal does) but it 
> jumps
> wildly back and forth. Is it because their potentiometer produces some 
> noise
> and crackle?
>
> -Michael
>
>