Artec VPL-1 Reviews

Good quality pedal, but heavy.

not for fade in notes combined with the delay

When you have active any pedal that boost enough the signal passing through from this volume pedal (drive, overdrive, compressor) then you cannot be completely mute, there will be a slight sound. But when someone has clean sound the pedal works perfectly. I don't recommend this pedal to guitar players who use the volume pedals for fading in notes combined the delay.

great volume pedal

The thing about the minimum volume is true, when you have it all the way down you can hear just a tiny amount of sound but hey, it is tiny!!

Limited but very solid for the cost

Basically, Violining is tricky due to none linear volume scale, but min and max level pots are very useful, and the build quality is very good for the price, to go between 2 levels of volume this pedal is perfect , violining is not easy with this but the pedal is built to last

Sturdy and does the job

This thing is grand but as other people have said there's not much variance in between on and off. If you want to do smooth sweeps or violony sounds you'll want something else.

If you're looking for something to kill your sound or just lower it a bit for some texture this will do fine

Functional

Functional pedal. I use it to set volume post distortion stage.

Setting max volume is useful it you run it in the loop of a non master-volume amp and want to use pre-amp distortion at lower volumes.

What the other reviews say about the sensitivity hump around the mid point is true, and takes some getting used to. Smooth volume swells are pretty tough with this pedal.

You get what you pay for...

A bit disappointed. Although you can set the input as well as the output (good for setting a strumming comp volume as input and then howl away at the solo on output) I find that the distans between 0 and 50% on the pedal is all the same (doesn't matter if you have no volume at "all up" or half volume).

It's alright if you just have the two levels, but I like to "violin" my solos or chords some time. That's a bit difficult and unsensitive to find the spot where things start to happen.

Volume pedal

Volume pedals are not a glamarous item. But this one is very well made ,does the job and priced much better than the most famous make. Go for it!

Great pedal

I bought this pedal for mainly to use it for playing "violin" sounds with my guitar.

I works very well for this purpose. It's very solid. Max and min volumes are adjustable. And it wasn't too expensive either. I've been using it in several gigs in the past three months and I can't find anything bad to say about it. Highly recommendable!

Very Happy!

Very gig worthy volume pedal, not owned for long but so far, so good!

Great solid construction

No problems with sound

A slight difference in sensitivity about half way up the pedal but it just takes some getting used to!

well built pedal

great build quality, good value for the price

Artec Volume Pedal VPL-1

Pro: solid construction, easy to use, knobs to adjust the min and max volume levels. Contra: I find the sensitivity a bit too high, that is, with a small shift of the pedal, the volume change is significant. This makes volume control a bit tricky.

Note: I power it with an external adapter, as it seems to eat up batteries

Usable, cheap volume pedal

This pedal is noise-free, no any hiss or noise during volume changing. What I discovered that it is not possible to adjust the volume to 0 volume, but besides of that, it is a good volume pedal.

Artec Volume Pedal

Bullet proof, road-worthy and well made. It's big but that makes it easy to use. I love the treadplate effect on the treadle. Minimum and maximum controls are handy but with the minimum control set to the lowest value there's still a tiny audible signal so it doesn't give silence, but why need that at a gig, just stop playing. Volume pedals seem dull but they're very useful and this one, with tuner out, extra controls and routing options is especially handy. But for your feet, if that makes sense. battery or standard PSU.