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Post subject: Fender Volume/Tone Pedal Tone Suck Fix
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:15 pm
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I purchased a Fender Volume/Tone Pedal a couple days ago and was very, very disappointed that almost all of the Treble vanished when I used the pedal, even with foot pad in full Treble position. I read many articles on this on the internet, but no one had a good solution other than changing pots or capacitors which would definitely void the Fender warranty. Others suggested better shielded cables. All the articles on the web call this "Tone Suck" and for good reason.
Anyway, my rig in question here is a Fender Telecaster into a Mustang III amplifier. Awesome setup until I use the Fender Volume/Tone pedal. (this thing was supposed to "help" my sound, not make it worse) Instructions say to plug the guitar into the Fender Vol/Tone pedal and then from the Vol/Tone pedal into the Mustang III, and that seemed to be the way others did it as well, even adding effect pedals further down the chain after the Volume/Tone pedal. Every setup seemed to produce "Tone Suck" from the Fender Volume/Tone unit.
But another issue I encountered with going through the Fender Vol/Tone pedal was that at lower volumes, I no longer had distortion from my "metal" style presets on the Mustang III. I had to have full volume on the pedal to get the desired distortion. So what good was the pedal, right?
I had an idea and turns out, it fixes both issues... mostly. Let me explain...
I have an effects loop on the Mustang III, so I connected a shielded cable from the Effects "Send" on the back of the Mustang III to the Input on the Fender Volume/Tone pedal. Then I plugged another shielded cable from the Output of the Volume/Tone pedal and into the Effects "Return" on the back of the Mustang III creating an "Effects Loop". Then I plugged my Tele into the normal Input on the front panel of the Mustang III and voila!!!
My amp produced tones exactly as before I ever used the Vol/Tone pedal with NO TONE SUCK, AND all my metal distortion sounds produced distortion even when I moved the Vol/Tone pedal to almost no volume.!!! Yes! ...But here's the caveat... when moving the Vol/Tone pedal side to side for the Tone function, the tone is affected very little to not at all (which makes sense when you stop and think that this is a "passive" tone control on the pedal). However, I have the tone set on my amp presets to what I wanted it to be anyway, so it's not so much a problem for me personally; even though I paid the extra bucks for the Tone function. But two out of three ain't bad for a fix.
If you're having similar "Tone Suck" issues with the Fender Volume/Tone pedal; and you have an effects loop on your particular amplifier rig, give this fix a try. Hope this helps someone else out there. :D :!:


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Post subject: Re: Fender Volume/Tone Pedal Tone Suck Fix
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:50 pm
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late reply but every question should have an answer ( I think)

you where baddly informed by your seller :

volume/tone pedal work in the same way that volume and tone on your guitar .If you got guitar that get humbucker it's normal that it kill some high end because of the pot resistance ( that I suspect to be 250kohm ) they should have put 1 meg pot for their modern reissue but want to be historicaly correct


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