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Re: Vol. Pedal
The Yamaha FC7 is a sturdy piece, with quite a long-range physical workflow.
This gives quite accurate volume/morph-control.
Also the Roland/Boss EV5 is an OK option. It has a more narrow workflow though.
Personally I prefer the Roland-pedal because of its workflow angel. It is lighter though, and tends to move a bit during use.
This gives quite accurate volume/morph-control.
Also the Roland/Boss EV5 is an OK option. It has a more narrow workflow though.
Personally I prefer the Roland-pedal because of its workflow angel. It is lighter though, and tends to move a bit during use.
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Re: Vol. Pedal
I use the EV-5 but set my NS2 to “EV-7”; this gives a longer and more precise range imho.catosim wrote:The Yamaha FC7 is a sturdy piece, with quite a long-range physical workflow.
This gives quite accurate volume/morph-control.
Also the Roland/Boss EV5 is an OK option. It has a more narrow workflow though.
Personally I prefer the Roland-pedal because of its workflow angel. It is lighter though, and tends to move a bit during use.
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Re: Vol. Pedal
For organ, I think the FC7 is the best because it's the pedal with the longest travel on the market (I think), so it aproximates well a real organ pedal, which has a much longer travel than the average guitar-style expression pedal.
Also, it's basically eternal. I've been using mine quite heavily for 10 years now, but I read reports of people with MUCH older FC7s that still work flawlessly.
For any other uses, I find the Moog EP-3 to be excellent: light, cheaper than FC7 or EV5, totally customizable (polarity, range) and with a detachable cable so you can substitute it if it fails, instead of replacing the whole pedal.
Also, it's basically eternal. I've been using mine quite heavily for 10 years now, but I read reports of people with MUCH older FC7s that still work flawlessly.
For any other uses, I find the Moog EP-3 to be excellent: light, cheaper than FC7 or EV5, totally customizable (polarity, range) and with a detachable cable so you can substitute it if it fails, instead of replacing the whole pedal.
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Re: Vol. Pedal
I also have an EV-5 and, like BrainFreeze, I had to set it in EV-7 mode to get the full range. So odd...
Time for Nord to revise those settings in the NS2 OS, I think.
When/if I had to buy another one, I will get an FC7 just because I guess it might work better in the MODX (for some reason the EV-5 is 'jumpy' in the MODX but not so in NS2. Strange, isn't it?)
I wonder if the Nords have some kind of a LPF on the expression input (thus filtering any transients in the potentiometer) and the MODX does not?).
Time for Nord to revise those settings in the NS2 OS, I think.
When/if I had to buy another one, I will get an FC7 just because I guess it might work better in the MODX (for some reason the EV-5 is 'jumpy' in the MODX but not so in NS2. Strange, isn't it?)
I wonder if the Nords have some kind of a LPF on the expression input (thus filtering any transients in the potentiometer) and the MODX does not?).
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Re: Vol. Pedal
If you read "volume pedal", it's not always good for use with a keyboard. There are two different ways to use a "volume" pedal with a keyboard:
a) plug it into to Swell pedal jack - there is no audio going through, it only provides variable resistance for swell regulation;
b) connect it to audio-out and let it directly control your volume output.
The result of both isn't exactly the same:
a) plug it into to Swell pedal jack - there is no audio going through, it only provides variable resistance for swell regulation;
b) connect it to audio-out and let it directly control your volume output.
The result of both isn't exactly the same:
- (b) will lower everything, even the organ percussion, (a) will only affect the tonewheel sound.
- (a) will only affect the organ engine if not set from "swell" to "volume" - which would result in the same thing as a volume pedal in the audio out
- (b) would have to be stereo to be able to affect both 1 & 2 audio-out
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Re: Vol. Pedal
For me it has always been important that the pedal is heavy for a solid standing on stage and that it has a poti to adjust its sensitivity. I ended up with a KORG XVP-20. This is a pedal that can do both ways FZiegler mentioned - all in stereo - and seems to be of good quality. I love it.
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Re: Vol. Pedal
Tasten-Bert wrote:For me it has always been important that the pedal is heavy for a solid standing on stage and that it has a poti to adjust its sensitivity. I ended up with a KORG XVP-20. This is a pedal that can do both ways FZiegler mentioned - all in stereo - and seems to be of good quality. I love it.
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Cool I'll check that one out! I have to replace my Yamaha FC-7's every year unfortunately.
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Re: Vol. Pedal
Replacing multiple FC7s every year? This is the first time I ever heard of reliability issues with them. What's the problem you have with them?
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