{"id":154,"date":"2015-05-02T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-08-09T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T12:59:11","slug":"diy-volume-pedal-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"DIY Volume Pedal (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally built my &#8216;drop-in&#8217; DIY volume pedal circuit. The circuit can be plugged directly into a Dunlop Cry Baby. However, the potentiometer in wah pedals uses a different taper, ICAR I believe. Because of the way the human ear responds to sound a logarithmic or audio taper is preferred but existing wah pots will work.<\/p>\n<p>I have included a circuit a strip\/vero board layout.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume_circuit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume_circuit-1024x503.png\" alt=\"Schematic for the drop-in wah volume pedal\" width=\"1024\" height=\"503\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image wp-image-157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume_circuit-1024x503.png 1024w, http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume_circuit-300x147.png 300w, http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume_circuit.png 1313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strip\/vero board layout can be used a &#8216;drop-in&#8217; board to turn a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah into a DIY volume pedal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume-1024x554.png\" alt=\"A strip board layout for a drop-in wah volume pedal\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image wp-image-156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume-1024x554.png 1024w, http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume-300x162.png 300w, http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Drop-in_volume.png 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally built my &#8216;drop-in&#8217; DIY volume pedal circuit. The circuit can be plugged directly into a Dunlop Cry Baby. However, the potentiometer in wah pedals uses a different taper, ICAR I believe. Because of the way the human ear responds to sound a logarithmic or audio taper is preferred but existing wah pots will [&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\/154"}],"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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/distofx.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}