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Wah Pedal

So how about that wah pedal? It’s the one on the left 

. Get yourself planted 

with your foot on there nice and comfortable. Now, press down with your toes, let 
go, and do it again. You should see a little light turning on and off to the left of the 
wah pedal. When the light’s on, the wah’s on. When the light’s off, the wah’s off. 
Neat. Incidentally, the POD wah is modeled after a late 60’s Vox wah, with plenty 
of “growl” in the heel back position. Now then, turn the wah light on, switch to 
the Black Panel Amp Model, set your 

Drive

 to about 5, and do a little fast rhythm 

playing while you rock back and forth to the beat on that pedal. Hang a disco ball, 
unbutton your shirt to your navel (assuming you don’t have it that way all the 
time), hang some gold chains around your neck, and get ready to party! You can 
do subtle things with the wah pedal too, like turning it on just a tiny bit and 
leaving it there, just barely caressing your sound. But then, that’s not as much fun 
as playing the theme to “Shaft,” is it?

Volume Pedal

Not nearly as fun as the wah pedal, but arguably more useful (and it doesn’t 
require you to have Very Large Hair to use it convincingly). Put your foot up on 
that thing 

. It’s the one on the far right. Press the volume pedal forward with 

your toes for loud, and back with your heel for quiet. The volume pedal is tapered 
for a very musical swell. It starts out slow and then gets faster as you move your toe 
down, very much like an Ernie Ball volume pedal.

Many guitarists used to switch potentiometers in their volume pedal if they 
wanted to gradually swell an extremely overdriven tone. POD is hip enough to 
know about this. When you select a low gain Amp model (to the left-hand side of 
the 16-position switch), POD automatically chooses the normal volume pedal 
taper and sets up the volume pedal to control the guitar’s volume before the 
preamp. Then, when you select a high-gain amp type, your POD changes the taper 
and re-patches the volume pedal location to be post-preamp, as this is the more 
valuable position for a volume pedal with this kind of amplifier tone. With the 
SoundDiver software, you can change the Volume Pedal position & tapers as you 
like with any Amp Model.

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