Better Sustains?

[St0rMl0rD]

Which are sustain pedals of better quality? My Proel is kinda..wrecked :P :twisted:

[Lurion]

Yep, my proeil broke last saturday straight before a gig... Never again!!!! I shall buy korg from now on...

[Spacehog]

I have a Yamaha, seems pretty rugged so far... I've also used Roland ones, but the silly fold-out rubber bit underneath them always bugged me

Martin

[Lurion]

I found this in another thread. It looks tough as hell!

http://bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp=37

[Spacehog]

It is, but it being more of a switch, it won't give you the true "sustain pedal" feeling. I have five simple footswitches similar to that, but I still prefer my genuine Yamaha sustain pedal for the board that I have my piano sounds on.

Martin

[ImaX]

You're right, the Boss switch doesn't give you piano feeling... but I'm playing standing, so you don't have that feeling anyway.

The Boss switch has for me one advantage: I use one unlatched switch for sustain and a latched switch for things like leslie, switching between layers and so on, and I could add more switches for other functions (dataInc / Dec...). All Boss switches fit into each other, so I have a kind of pedal board and don't have to worry about differnet switches lying around accross the stage :-)

[Tigerfolly]

Check out the Fatar VFP-25. It's a solid, durable sustain pedal that's shaped like and feels more like a real one.. except it doesn't have nearly as heavy of a spring to it.

For Leslie speaker effects, I just use the mod wheel to trigger it. I have too many pedals on the floor as it is :)

[Lurion]

I only have two proeils working as sustains. The rest is done by hand. I did try switching between programs with a footswitch but it didn't quite work at first and since I havn't had enough time to get used to it, I haven't tryed it again (it seemed a bit messy and I was getting ready for a gig so I decided to leave for some other time that still hasn't come...). Still, I'm gonna seriously get down to it this summer and get used to using it, since it must be much more effective.

[ChrisMcCoy]

I have a Yamaha, seems pretty rugged so far... I've also used Roland ones, but the silly fold-out rubber bit underneath them always bugged me

Martin

I have an older Roland that has the silly rubber thing, but I just picked up one of the newer ones and they did away with it in favor of some "feet". Needless to say I'm much happier with the new Roland. I think the type is DP-30.

[merijn]

I use a Roland thingie, works perfect