I've ordered a Carter U-12 through Al Brisco, and it's coming with a Goodrich 120 volume pedal. I'm wondering what will work better with my fiddle, this one or my Ernie Ball with a 250k pot. I've heard that a good PSG amp is also a good fiddle amp, so is the same true for a volume pedal? The fiddle is an acoustic fiddle with Fisher piezo-electric pickup on the bridge. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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PSG volume pedal for fiddle
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If you use a preamp with the piezo pickup, it will probably have a reasonably low impedance output. Find out what the output impedance of the preamp is. If it's 10 kohms or less, I doubt there would be a significant difference between the 250K and 500K pots.
If you don't use a preamp, I'd expect even the 500K would load down the high impedance piezo pickup and your output level and tone will probably suffer.
My old friend Fooch Fischetti played fiddle through a Webb 6-14E back in the early '80s and I've never heard a better fiddle sound through an amp. He used a piezo pickup and a homebrew preamp built into his volume pedal.
If you don't use a preamp, I'd expect even the 500K would load down the high impedance piezo pickup and your output level and tone will probably suffer.
My old friend Fooch Fischetti played fiddle through a Webb 6-14E back in the early '80s and I've never heard a better fiddle sound through an amp. He used a piezo pickup and a homebrew preamp built into his volume pedal.
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