From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017011722534157529-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It is passive.  250K pot. Not sure what the taper is.   
      
   Logarithmic taper, always for any control whose direct effects are to be   
   heard in regards to amplitude and frequency.   
      
   > They make a version of this pedal with a 25K pot, for use with " active "   
   > electronics or after active effect pedals. I have another volume pedal, a   
   > low impedance one, by Roland.  This new one is more solidly built. It   
   > should be useful, one way or another.   
      
   I definitely could use one for my keyboards, particularly the organ.   
      
   > The price is all in the mechanical parts.  Alumimum case, nice rollers for   
   > the cable, and a $4 pot :-)   
      
   They're horribly overpriced - around 90 bucks is simply toooooo much!   
      
   > You wanna see stupid overpriced, check out the Roland EV-5 expression   
   > pedal. Plastic case ... one 10 K potientiometer ( maybe a 50 k trim pot in   
   > some versions ) and that thing costs $60.  Amazing.   
      
   30 bucks more if it's metal instead of plastic, disgusting!   
      
   > Back to the Ernie Ball pedal, there are guys online who will add active   
   > electronics to these, for a considerable amount. Memory is somewhere in   
   > the between $150 and $250 dollars for the modded units.   
      
   Sure, they're charging 'boutique' prices.   
   Think that's something, there's a custom made pedal called the "Organ   
   Grinder" which adds awesome tube-sounding but solid solid state produced   
   Leslie 122 preamp overdrive sound for that Orgasmic 'grinding' sound for a   
   more complete B3 experience, and that little pedal is  around 200 bucks or   
   more - RIP OFF!!!   
   They've also got one for the overdriven Wuril electric piano sound too, for   
   around the same price.   
      
   > For that you get a simple impedance converter type preamp added.  Again,   
   > amazing.  It just never ceases to amaze me how much people will pay for "   
   > that sound ", for some magical, non existent improvement to what was good   
   > enough in the first place.   
      
   Sound is like that, a very powerful stimulus...and unfortunately as the   
   Greedy Opportunists have discovered, something to also stimulate losing a   
   lot of money from those who want one.   
      
   > Two weeks ago, at a band gig, a guy came up to me and was talking guitars.   
   > I believe I had my $45 dollar Aria Strat copy :-)   He was all about how I   
   > should be playing a better axe.  I ask " why ".   Well, because better   
   > guitars sound better.  I ask why again.  They are just wood and some cheap   
   > electronics. He said the better guitars have better wood.   
      
   Time to pull out the acoustics specs, like spectral signatures and such.   
      
   > Better wood ?   What in the world is that, I thought ?  Wood from 65 is   
   > better than wood from 78 ?  How ?   
      
   Can't be all that great, because the wood their heads are made out of isn't   
   all that good at thinking ;)   
      
   > After a little back and forth, I ended up saying " hey, they're just wood,   
   > dude ".   
      
   Yeah, I like carbon fiber much better ;)   
      
   > He never got my point, but we had to start playing again, so I got out of   
   > the discussion. Yes, I know that from a marketing angle, I should jump   
   > right in there and continue the myth of this or that being better, and if   
   > you buy it you'll be a guitar god. But that's crap. It's all down to how   
   > you play. The guitar, assuming it's tunable and solid, has nothing to do   
   > with your songwriting or playing style. That's you. The guitar is a tool.   
   > Nothing more. Unless I get some endorcement deal, then who knows what lies   
   > I could be paid to tell :-)   
      
   Jim   
      
   There is better wood, better at being much more expensive and therefore   
   something to brag about ;)   
   It's the same with loudspeakers or anything else -  big, impressive,   
   Expensive name, it's *got to* sound better, simple child psychology.   
   Your $70 strat and his $7,000 strat - his *must* sound better...for any   
   reason other than simply looking at the specs...and he gets to pay for all   
   that bragging...they can have it!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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