I don’t know how it breathes life into your pedals, but it seems like a great idea for running before distortions or after pedals which give you a weird volume boost like the Clone Theory. I guess it would make it SUPER easy to handle a Fuzz Face; with the flick of a switch you can go between OD and fuzz without having to try and find that sweet spot on the guitar’s volume knob every time. Same goes for dirty amps.

I’ve yet to see one in store or catch a review online, but honestly it seems like something you either could or couldn’t use. There’s not alot of mystery to it, except for how it could breathe that life…

it’s a very simple effect, being able to attenuate volume in places is always a nice thing for tweaking your pedalboard
I don’t have one, but I can definitely see how it would be useful

I used it some more…..it definitely sucks tone so much that I found a new use for it. used after a cry baby it helps to smooth its output and the hiss allowing for a soft but clean wah sound when you’re using a tube amp in a slightly crunchy setting which normally gets dirtier if you engage a wah pedal…

I wonder if it would have been better with just a 250k pot and an effective treble bypass circuit, maybe switchable….

I would be really curious to hear from someone else and from EHX themselves if there is a variability with different guitar pup – amp set-ups….

Hi there,

I’m a new user – this is my first post.

I know it’s been a while since anyone posted on this thread but since there isn’t much info on the Signal Pad out there, I figured I would add my 2 cents.

I bought the Signal Pad specifically to hit a sweet spot on a fuzz that I can get by using the guitar’s volume control. I figured a pedal-based “set and forget” volume control should be able to do this job.

And it almost does – unfortunately as some previous posters noted, the signal pad seems to reduce treble at the same time as it reduces the volume. So while I can get the right amount of fuzz, I also get a muddier tone, which isn’t ideal for what I’m trying to accomplish.

There are 2 more things I noticed about the Signal Pad:

1 – When engaged, I also got additional noise in the chain – which really shouldn’t happen considering I’m reducing my total output.
2 – I opened up the pedal and expected to find a pot, a switch, an LED, and a battery – but there are some caps and transistors in there as well. I’m wondering if they’ve over complicated what should be a simple circuit and lost something in the process…

On the upside – as other have noted, the true-bypass works fine and the pedal is transparent when it’s off, and it sure is built solid enough.

I think the idea of the Signal Pad is good – but the execution is a little flawed. If you’re not too picky about losing a little treble (like if you want to tame a trebly distortion maybe?) then you might find it worth buying considering the low price point.

cheers,
ew

i dont intend to “advertise”, im only sharing ideas, its a simple project, really just a pot and two jacks, power is only needed if you want to have an LED indicator. although in mine i added a toggle switch to go from knob control to optical control like an expression pedal.

hello,
I was wondering if the ‘signal pad’ could be used in the effects loop of my Peavey Classic 30 JUST as an attenuator, rather than as an A/B switch type of thing..?
Here’s an ebay link to what I mean. I live in the UK, so if it could do the same job, it’d be easier to get the ‘signal pad’..

Thanks!

link:attenuator

Cryabetes, I have no idea whether after a year youd still like to know the resistance, but taking my chances, seems like its a 1 M log pot with a 220 pf cap. theres also a diode 1N4004 to keep the current flowing away from the battery/dc ground, but thats it, the rest is for the led. i dont know why it sucks the tone like ppl say, the cap should do the trebble bleed i guess. but maybe a better option is using a booster (like the lpb1, or the screaming bird:)) instead of the pad to not lose the trebble when cutting volume? i dont know.. if anyone has a better option im all ears