Ernie Ball EB6181 VP JR Volume Pedal 4-stars Reviews

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9 years ago

Best to use in amp loop

I use it in my amp's loop effects as this is a low impedance pedal. Works very well. Solid built unlike other pedals that gets damaged due to hours of usage. Does not suck tone.

Note : Will not work effectively in front of amp of when connected via other guitar pedals since it is low impedance.

9 years ago

Ocean of smoothness

I bought the VP JR to help me control my amp distortion gain (kind of expression) as well as the volume itself. Oh man, it does exactly that!!

I was hoping for an improvement of my distortion tone control, got that entirely and more.

I can control my gain very easily and effortlessly and it sounds a beast when used with clean and delays, reverbs, etc.

The overall material quality is superb, very robust and neat. It's more solid than a brick.

It only has one con. I tend to get some signal loss when using the VP but it's barely noticeable. Otherwise a 5 star volume pedal.

Ernie ball really upped their game on this one!

10 years ago

I needed a low impedance volume pedal for ambient swells. A high impedance pedal would effect the amount of dirt in my signal and I didn't want that. The sweep of the Ernie Ball is great, it's what made me decide to spring for it in the end.

But the exposed innards will gather dust quite quickly and the string is notorious for breaking. I just made peace with the fact that this pedal will give me problems as it did have the best sweep, and it is a kind of best of the rest pedal.

I feel like the market is crying out for a pedalboard friendly sized low impedance volume pedal without all the issues of the VP JR.

11 years ago