Foot controled volume?

[auraboros]

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to incorperate a foot controled volume feature into a pedal. Probably simmilar to the one on the boomerang phrase sampler. Is it as simple as a drum attached to a horizontal mounted pot? Any help would be appreciated, and I'd enjoy hearing any other ideas other than the boomerang one as well.
Thanks.

[RaceDriver205]

Unless you are both mechanically inclined and in possesion of appropriate tools, id'd suggest you buy the expression pedal shell from small bear electronics (smallbearelec.com), with a wah potentiometre to match. Thats if you want it easy. A lot of people say "get an old broken wah", but I can't find them in shops!

[auraboros]

ha, aint that the truth.
the problem is that for this particular idea there would be multiple volume controls, so as to control the mix between multiple channels. Multiple wah pedals would get kind of excessive as far as space on a pedalboard is concerned. Any other ideas before I decide to go with this one?

[petemoore]

  I used to wrap a partially untrimmed ziptie to flat knobbed volume or other pot, so it becomes a lever that I can adjust pretty well with my foot...cheap, super quick, stupid looking and effective...for the range it gets 'around the side' of the box [somewhat limited shaft twist range with foot aside the box...plenty enough to boost a FF over the top for leads..or attenuate to rythm level. Placing the tie/lever adjustment so that scraping my foot along the edge and past the front of the pedal box and reliably hit where I wanted "Max level to be.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

If I understand you right, you want a simple audio mixer with the gain of (say) six channels independantly controlled by a single pedal.
Well, the problem there is... what's going to 'remember' the setting for each channel?
No, I'm not going to say "get a micro"... (although, yes, you should, and have half a dozen logrithmic digital pots, plus a footswitch to cycle thru the channels for setting).
My "non-micro" solution, is to use half a dozen motorised pots (the cheap Alps ones are about $10). Plus a footswitch & some logic, to select the pot to set. these pots are stereo, so one half is used to control the level, while the other 'reads' the pot setting by picking off a voltage. Use a feedback loop to force the pot motor to turn the pot motor back or foward to match the footpedal setting.

Third alternative: it may be possible to cobble somtething together from old off the shelf midi gear. using a midi controlled fader box, and a standard floor mount midi controller unit.

[auraboros]

I was thinking of more of a splitter. a box that could split a single signal (my bass) to four, with the ability to turn individual channels on/off. This way I could use all four channels at once, or as few as one. Of course it would have four on/off switches, but I figured it would be cool to have indipendent vol. for each one.

So say I'm playing a riff through channel one, into a phaser, then to my PA. While playing, I could then turn on and raise the volume of channel two. Lets say channel two goes to an octave pedal. The resulting sound would be a phased bass playing, with a lower bass playing louder and louder to meet with the first bass, giving the effect of two different instruments are playing.

Does this make sense?

[auraboros]

no ideas?

[petemoore]

  I'd take a look at the GEO pages, 'The Parallelyzer' may have some tricks you can use.

[auraboros]

Do you have a link?

[Dave_B]

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