Greg Cutshaw wrote:Donny, you indeed missed the point. I love my pot pedal!
No buffer is needed with a pot pedal! If you prefer one, that is fine, but it is not needed and I did not use one on the recording above.
Both the Goodrich with a HotPotz and the Hilton are truly great pedals. Both are smooth, reliable and can produce awesome sounds.
Greg
Well......how am I supposed to argue when you won't disagree with me?
Tarnation, give an ol' guy a break!
And so...
I think this whole volume pedal thing is overblown.
I do too, as is the "push/pull vs. all-pull" thing, as is the "tubes vs. solid-state" thing, as is the "JBL vs. whatever" thing, as is the "single coil vs. humbucker" thing, etc., etc..
If all these years of playing has taught me anything, it's that there's no "magic bullet" that's going to turn an average player into a great player. There are
no magic amps, pedals, bars, guitars, strings, picks, speakers, or pickups. A change in gear
may give some players an incremental improvement, but mostly it's a "feel good" thing, and you have to remember that incremental improvements won't help if you're not sufficiently advanced in your skill or talent. For example: If you get a 40 on a test in school, a 5-point improvement doesn't help you much. (You're still a "D" student.) However, if you get a 5-point improvement on a test score of 87, you have moved from a "B" student to an "A" student. You have to be pretty well "up there" for a small change to be noticed by others. I've seen players buy a starter steel, and then 3 months later, they want to change the pickup!? Well, if you can't do a decent rendition of "Bud's Bounce" or "Danny Boy", believe me...a new pickup really ain't gonna help 'ya.
I've always emphasized ability and talent over "stuff".
YOU are the bigest element in the equation. Players get famous based on
how they play, not
what they play.
I've
always said that Keith made a fine pedal, and that the push/pull was a fine sounding steel, and that a Standel or a Fender tube model is a fine sounding amp. However, if you buy one of these (or any other piece of equipment), buy them for their good qualities, and
not because someone told you they'll make you a great player, or they will make a huge improvement in your sound - because that's just not the case.
pot pedal so you all can see how the pot pedal "sucks" all the sound out of the music. All I did was remove the Hilton, insert the Goodrich 120 (with a Dunlop HotPotz replacement pot) and removed the Guyatone MD3. No buffer amp, just the guitar, Goodrich pedal, Boss RV-5 and Fender Steel king amp. 
