I’m basically listening for a few things when using a volume pedal: how smooth, vocal and dynamic is the sweep, how does the tone change when the pedal is backed off...do I lose sustain and amount of distortion.
What I noticed is that the way the expression pedal reacted completely changed depending on placement. It sounds good on input and pre stack but it sounds terrible post stack. This is where I’ve been using it since post stack would be post all distortion and noise but still pre delay and verb. I didn’t change any settings and I’m playing the pedal consistently. It’s easy to hear the loss of sweep.
So I think the problem I’ve been having isn’t with the expression pedal range and curve settings, it’s that it just isn’t working well in the post stack location for some reason. The analog pedal sounds much better in the loop placed post stack than the expression pedal.
I still think it would be good to have some more control over the curve of the expression pedal settings since not all pedals sound and feel alike. One thing I learned is that I should try placing the volume pedal pre distortion more often because it really does have a nice dynamic, vocal sound.