{"id":145,"date":"2015-04-26T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/?p=145"},"modified":"2016-08-09T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T12:59:01","slug":"diy-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"DIY Volume pedal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of the wires on my wah had broken so I needed to re-wire it. Recently I had been thinking about modifying the wah into a three in one wah\/volume\/expression pedal. Since I had to re-wire it anyway I took the opportunity to build a volume pedal.<\/p>\n<p>I put together a circuit with a simple buffer, using the wah pot as a volume. I also added a DPDT toggle switch to bypass the buffer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/swell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/swell-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"DIY Volume pedal\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/swell-1024x696.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/swell-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/swell.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The circuit needs a bit more work. Currently with the toe down the signal is quietest and with the heel down the signal is loudest. It feel better if the volume operation was inverted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of the wires on my wah had broken so I needed to re-wire it. Recently I had been thinking about modifying the wah into a three in one wah\/volume\/expression pedal. Since I had to re-wire it anyway I took the opportunity to build a volume pedal. I put together a circuit with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}