tubetonez
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Dutch said:Great project BTW!!!
I've been thinking of cutting mine in two, seperating the pedals from the buttons and reattach with hinges to fold them back. That would make the pedal much easier to transport.
Well, the power supply is mounted on the pedal side of the FCB, if you didn't do phantom power it could be problematic.
But this discovery about a pot working too opens up possibilities.
Pretty easy to make your own expression pedal BTW.
Usually they use 10K linear pots. Get one of those cheap wah's from China (like $25) rip out the guts and put that pot in. If you want to go perfect get a momentary switch and you can do the total wah thing. Total cost about $30.
I don't know if Mission does anything extra except spray paint and assembly, which is costly, BTW... But I am sure that this would work.
I've already made one from an old Crybaby, it has a 100K pot that works ok. If you price the cost of a quality wah shell and the internal components, the Mission pedal is a great value. If I didn't already have this one I'd get theirs. I may end up ordering the pot from them. Standard pots won't work well in these type pedals, because of their limited travel.
I already had the latching switch, it will go into expression pedal 2 input - I may have to add a resistor for this, so that it toggles between two values and I can use it as an IA. I may add an LED to the wah/expression pedal itself for this switch. The FCB pedal LED's won't do anything for this, I chose to leave them off because it only shows if the the expression pedals are enabled in the patch - and they're always on in every patch. The latching switch I used is a 3PDT, so I can use one set of contacts for an LED and tap into the 5V from the FCB's expression inputs. If I used it for Wah only I wouldn't bother, but I'll be using it for various functions in different patches so it will be good to know when it's enabled.