Can i turn my clean boost into a sort of volume pedal?

[bpalatt]

I thought it would be cool to be able to change the amount of boost the pedal gives me with an expression pedal instead of physically bending down and turning the knob. If i got an expression pedal with the same value pot in it, removed the wires from the pot in the pedal, installed a trs input jack and wired it up the same way the original pot was wired, would that work? Could I now plug in the expression pedal and use it to control the amount of clean boost, or essentially my volume? I thought this would also be cool because it would keep the volume pedal out of my signal chain when I wasn't using it. Any help would much appreciated. thanks

[RickL]

That would work perfectly. The same idea works if you want to use a pedal to control any parameter on any pedal. I once put the guts from a Boss Metal Zone into an expression pedal, using the pot to control the mid frequency.

[bpalatt]

Thanks.  I never thought of moving the guts of the pedal into the expression pedal.  That's a good idea and would save me a nice amount of space.

[Mark Hammer]

Read Thomas Henry's article about doing exactly what you describe, somewhere in issues 10-12 of DEVICE at http://hammer.ampage.org

[bpalatt]

hey, thanks for the tip.  It turned out to be in volume 8, but I found it.  I don't think I'm going to move the clean boost into the expression pedal.  The pedal does other stuff too and it would be too complicated.  Once I do this mod, if i want to be able to choose between the expression pedal and turning the knob on box itself, I think i would need to install dpdt switch.  Is that right?  Could someone explain how to wire the switch in, or point me to a schematic with a switch that does something similar?  thanks again.

[Bill_F]

Somebody gave me an old Bespeco volume pedal. Looks like a piece of junk, plastic body etc. Would it take anything special (such as shielding with aluminum foil) to put a LPB or Mosfet boost etc. into it?

Thanks,
Bill

[bpalatt]

Bill, @ geofex.com there is an article on how to eliminate hum while using plastic fx bodies.  It is under the tech tips link on the left side once you go to the actual website.  It offers a much better explanation than I could give you.  Hope that helps.

[smoguzbenjamin]

I've got a bespeco 'weeper' wah-pedal. Also plastic casing but hum-free for me anyway. I did mod it a bit 'cos the weeper itself was perfectly named But it's in the original bespeco plastic casing, I've never had a problem with it...