Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal

The Ernie Ball Volume Pedal is a part of guitarist Josh Homme's pedalboard, one of which is used in the band the Queens of the Stone Age.

In this photo, which originates from Foo Fighters' concert at Dingwalls, which was done on February 26, 2011 we can see a brief shot of Grohl's pedalboard - which included Ernie Ball VP Jr Volume pedal.

Phil Palmer uses always the V-twin as a lead pedal or a crunchy pedal. He uses the Ernie Ball volume pedal for adjusting the gain.

On this photo uploaded to Moore's Facebook page one can see an Ernie Ball volume pedal.

At 4:00 in this "Rig Rundown" with *Premier Guitar*, Brian Farmer, Warren Haynes' guitar tech says while outlining Warren's pedals "Thats a standard volume pedal, an Ernie Ball Volume pedal."

You can see Chris using this volum pedal on this picture

Listed under O'Brien's gear on The King of Gear.

According to [this article](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Rig_Rundown_Bushs_Chris_Traynor), by Premier Guitar, Traynor "also uses a Boss TU-2, a Dunlop Jerry Cantrell Signature Cry Baby, and an Ernie Ball VP JR Volume Pedal.

Daniel's Ernie Ball Volume Pedal can be seen in the bottom right hand corner of his pedalboard in this Instagram post.

In the first four seconds of this video, Marc Ribot can be seen using an Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume pedal.

On Drew's pedalboard, one can clearly see the shape and colour of the Ernie Ball volume pedal with the Boss tuner connected to it.

In [this article](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21588-rig-rundown-the-gaslight-anthem) about the rigs of The Gaslight Anthem, there is this picture of Alex's pedalboard, under which it says, "The signal starts with the guitar running into an Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal."

There are two pedalboards, one of which Graef uses to control the rig through most of the show. On his board are the Ground Control Pro for all MIDI program switching, an RJM Technology Amp Gizmo for amp channel changes (via MIDI), a Micro POG, Diamond Tremolo, Xotic EP Booster, Boss AW-1 and an Ernie Ball VP Jr. Rooney’s pedal board onstage sees another Ground Control Pro, a tuner, Earnie Ball VP Jr. and a Dunlop Wah controller—all connected to the Dunlop Rack Wah for onstage control of volume and wah.

In this photo, we can see Dessner with his modest pedalboard, which also includes the Ernie Ball VP JR. volume pedal.

in the right bottom of his pedalboard, you can see he uses a earnie ball volume pedal

On the left side of Ryan's pedalboard, we can see the ernie ball vp jr. volume pedal.

At 1:02 minute mark, Graul showed his Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume pedal.

Max starts his pedalboard chain with a volume pedal by Ernie Ball on the far right side.

Max has several pedals similar to Chris Miller. Like Chris, he begins his chain with the Ernie Ball Volume Pedal.

In these photos, Lincoln's board has a Fulltone Soul Bender, Full Drive 2, OCD, Supa-Trem, Clyde Wah, a Line 6 DL4, a Boss TU-2 and an NS-2, an Ernie Ball Volume pedal, and a Vox channel switcher.

At 2:05 the this gear rundown video, there is a clear shot of Steve Morse's three Ernie Ball Volume Pedals.

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Ryan uses two Ernie Ball VP JR. Volume Pedals. They can both be seen on his pedalboard from a picture taken at one of his shows on July 15, 2015.

The image from the pedalboard dates back to 2004 Toronto concerts, and original poster of pedalboard photos can be found [here](https://forum.guitar.com/complete-rig-25/wilco-2004-164006). Also, photos of the concert that this pedalboard photo is from can be found [here.](http://www.chromewaves.net/concertPhotos.php?concertPhotosID=44). In this photo, the Ernie Ball VP JR. volume pedal is visible.

This photo from an [everyday guitar gear article](https://everydayguitargear.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/kevin-shields/), is one of the pedal boards for Kevin Shields from [My Bloody Valentine](http://equipboard.com/band/my-bloody-valentine). Displayed is an Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal.

In this photo, which comes from the [2014 Sound on Sound article](http://www.soundonsound.com/people/horrors), Hayward's pedalboard is visible. One of the pedals included is the Ernie Ball VP JR. volume pedal.

An Ernie Ball VP JR. Pedal is visible on Stephen Carpenter's pedalboard at 1:08 in this video.

At 3:02, one can see the VP JR in Brent's pedalboard, and then Brent mentions it at 3:25.

At 3:00 of this "Rig Rundown" with *Premier Guitar* Jake talks about his volume pedal saying "I use that to mute stuff if I’m going to sample a part that I’m going to play on a song but I can’t play it during a song."

We can get a very good overlook of Mike's pedalboard here. The volume pedal he uses is an Ernie Ball VP Jr.

"Cool volume pedal too." Seen at 1:22

According to the Blue Oyster Cult's live gear list, Castellano uses the Ernie Ball JR. Volume pedal.

For Marsden, his desert-island effect has to be an Ernie Ball VP Jr Volume Pedal because he says it’s the most expressive tool under his control. When it comes to actual noisemakers on his board, he has a Fulltone OCD, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, Electro-Harmonix POG2, a Strymon El Capistan, a Boss DD-7 Digital Delay, an Electro-Harmonix Bass Soul Food that he sniped from bandmate Emma Richardson, an EHX Cathedral, and a Danelectro Reel Echo. Everything is controlled by GigRig QuarterMaster QMX8 switcher and it all stays in tune thanks to a Boss TU-3 Tuner.

In this photo with stacked up pedals, there is Ernie Ball VP JR. volume pedal visible.

Mike can be seen using a EB Passive Volume Pedal on this picture

In this photo, we can partially see Segel's pedalboard, which contains the Ernie Ball VP JR. passive volume pedal.

Bryan's volume pedal. Photo taken at Copeland's show on 11/23/16 in Seattle.

Stephen's volume pedal. Photo taken at Copeland's show on 11/23/16 in Seattle.

In this photo, Quinn Allman can be seen with an Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume pedal on his pedalboard.

Arun's volume pedal is furthest left on the board.

I use a Top Hat Emplexador and it's a single channel amp, so I don't have a clean and a gain on my amp head. So I use the volume pedal, it's an Ernie Ball VP JR.

He uses the volume pedal to control the amount of gain in this vid

An Ernie Ball volume pedal is seen in Farina's setup here.

In the bottom left corner, the "VP JR." text is visible, which indicates that Corso uses Ernie Ball Volume Pedal.

According to Hay's 2011 pedalboard photo, one of the pedals he was using back then is the Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal.

Found in this website with photo proof

VP JR spotted on pedalboard

Black Map photo gallery

On this Rig Rundown, we can see Jónsi's entire pedalboard, which is quite small. The first pedal in the chain is a VP Jr. Volume Pedal.

The first pedal in Georg's chain is seen as a volume pedal made by Ernie Ball.

Like his fellow players, Kjartan begins his signal chain with a common Ernie Ball Volume Pedal.

In this photo of Elvis Costello performing live you can see an ernie ball VP jr volume pedal first in the chain on the far right of his pedalboard.

In this video at 0:27, Shara Worden's pedal board displays a Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal on the bottom row.

According to Premier Guitar's interview, one of the items listed under his "gear" is the Ernie Ball VP JR. passive volume pedal.

Instagram Photo-VP jr

It's in the video...you can see it...it's right there...

"Got it on my KOL rig. It's sounding so good!"

seen on his pedalboard

Volume Pedal seen in recent pic

In this photo, which was taken during Against Me!'s 2016 performance at KEXP, the Bowman's pedalboard is seen. His pedalboard also includes the Ernie Ball VP JR. volume pedal, which he is stomping on at the moment.

From the Boss Tremolo, Benny's chain moves to an Ernie Ball VP Jr.

"I go from my guitar directly into an Ernie Ball Jr. volume pedal, an often overlooked but crucial pedal!" says Mike, in [this](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/14-guitarists-talk-about-their-pedal-boards.html?a=1) Paste magazine article.

you can see in this photo the Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal

At 1:45, Matt explains that he uses the VP Jr to roll back the volume for cleaner parts without touching his knobs.

In this Reddit post, Nick states that he uses a VP Jr in his pedal chain.

"At the core of it, I always have an Ernie Ball volume pedal so that I can maintain total control over my dynamics."

In his pedalboard, there are two units of this pedal.

Posted on his Instagram account @bravetheroyal

On this video at 9:00 Matt Wantland shows his effects.

This was Laswell's list of pedals in 2014, in which this particular pedal can be found as well. "Ernie Ball Volume jr (passive pedal), Digitech Ex7-multi fx epression pedal (orchestra synth sound effect only), Crybaby Bass Wah, Moogerfooger Ring Modulator, Moogerfooger Murf, Digitech Whammy II, Electro Harmonix Bass Big Muff, Pigtronix Envelope Phaser, Digitech Bass Synth Wah, Dod Performer Wah Filter 545 (Beige), Boss DD3 Digital Delay, Boss DD7 Digital Delay/Looper"

At 13:04 In this "RIGGED" episode from Gear Gods, Devin "Ghost" Sola guides us through his touring rig. He lists off the pedals he uses and in what order starting with his Ernie Ball VP JR Volume Pedal, to a TC Electronic PolyTune 2 Polyphonic LED Guitar Tuner, into a Boss ODB-3, into a Boss GEB-7 Bass Equalizer, and finally connecting to his Bass Innovations MXR Bass D.I.+. All of his pedals are patched together using the Livewire Advantage Series of patch cables.

You can see on Tomas Erak's pedalboard an Ernie Ball VP Jr Passive Volume Pedal

"New set up! Boss TU-2 > Digitech Whammy > Zinky True Grit > Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde > Electro-Harmonix Nano Muff Overdrive > Line 6 FM4 >Boss DD3 > Boss TR2 > Ernie Ball VP JR > Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Plus > Akai Headrush > Boss RC-20" Taken from Joseph Andreoli's Facebook.

in this photo you see the Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal

As seen at 10 seconds in the video. It's the VP Jr. and not VP Jr. 25k as the first line of the text above the input clearly is one word (VOLUME) instead of two (25k OHM).

Along the host of effects the Cody uses, he makes use of an Ernie Ball volume pedal on his board. It's hidden to the right of the Giga Delay.

Set Up Fernando Ruiz Díaz (Catupecu Machu)

You can see the Ernie Ball VP JR on Jack's pedal board in this picture.

It is directly in front of his foot.

Volume pedal used by Stroud.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Wade uses the Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal.

"Its a volume pedal. It turns me up and down."

On Jeremy's Pedaltrain, a volume pedal can be seen connected to other pedals and a tuner. This pedal is made by Ernie Ball.

Used in tandem with a Joyo american amp emulator pedal to sweep in overdriven tones on an acoustic"

Marc Byrd of the band Hammock can be seen performing here in a photo left on the band's website. From what can be seen, Marc is using an Ernie Ball volume pedal on his board.

A VP Jr can be seen on the right side of this picture

Moving on to his pedal board, Andy has an Ernie Ball volume pedal next to the tuner.

In this flikr photo you can see Bowman uses a Jr Volume pedal, possibly to save some space on his board.

In this video Jonathan speaks about this gear.

"10th June 2013 at Red Lion, Isleworth, Middlesex (gig with Derek Nash). The photo shows (left to right) a Marshall Bluesbreaker (which emulates the sound of the combo amplifier of the same name), a DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory, Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler Pedal, an Ernie Ball VP JR (volume pedal), TC Electronic PolyTune (tuner) and a Boss CH-1 Super Chorus (makes sounds of similar timbre and pitch converge as one)"

According to the Premier Guitar's interview, Holt uses the Ernie Ball VP JR passive volume pedal.

Seen in Pallbearer's Rig Rundown video. Joe explains that it's one of the pedals he plans to phase out soon.

Pretty much all his pedalboard posts this pedal is seen.

"The latest addition to my pedal board is pretty much the coolest thing I've acquired in a long time- the @markbass #SuperSynth. It sounds sick!!! #CeeLoBand"

The Ernie Ball Volume Pedal is a part of the bassist Gonzalo Lopez's pedalboard, one of which is used in the band Los Bunkers.

2:17 in this live video

You can see that pedal on Aaron's pedalboard on 9:53

"Just found out that the Looking Glass and the Hardwire RV-7 have made it on to Michael Landau's pedal board. We are honored!"

Ernie Ball VP JR. Passive Volume Pedal

The pedal can be seen in this photo posted by Siouxsie Medley on her Instagram page. The photo was posted on 17th September, 2014 while Dead Sara was on tour.

Picture of Pedalboard from Instagram

Andrew has a VP JR. on his board.

“I just use that with delays and reverbs to do swells and things like that.And sometimes, I’ll have the POG on as well, which can get a big, thick low-end sound, and have loads of reverb and delay stacked and do big, huge swells.”

As seen on his pedalboard

She used the VP JR for a while, NOT the regular VP but recently switched to a Korg KVP-002 Volume pedal which is actually designed for electric keyboards.

His standard volume pedal.

In the Facebook photo taken by Erin regarding his new Pigtronix Looper, he has an Ernie Ball volume pedal at the bottom.

From a [Guitar World article](http://www.guitarworld.com/caspian-s-guide-creating-wall-sound-four-essential-pedalboard-tricks), Jani's signal chain begins with a volume pedal by Ernie Ball.

From a [Guitar World Article](http://www.guitarworld.com/caspian-s-guide-creating-wall-sound-four-essential-pedalboard-tricks), Jonny's signal chain begins with a volume pedal by Ernie Ball.

This picture of Jake's pedals shows a Ernie Ball VP JR. He no longer uses this pedal as it was not on his board when he did an interview in April of 2016 about his gear as of then.

"Blimming amazing"

At 8.29 this effect can be seen

SS: Speaking of pedals, I’ve been slowly honing in my base setup for the next round of touring. The current live rig consists of a Boss TU-3, a Keeley-modified Ibanez TS-9, a Fulltone ’70 fuzz, an Electroharmonix Pitchfork, a Malekko 616 Analog Delay, an Electroharmonix Freeze, and an Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr.

This item can be seen at the bottom of the photo.

In this photo, which shows his pedalboard built for him by XTS [(source)](http://www.xacttone.com/info/photo-gallery/tom-bukovac-live/) one of the pedals that can be seen in his live pedalboard is the Ernie Ball VP JR. volume pedal.

Don Ross visited my school today, where I snapped this pic of his small pedalboard.

“If you only use the knob on your guitar to control your volume, it limits how much you’re able to do on the fretboard. These pedals are also very handy for changing guitars on stage as well - no-one wants to hear that jack lead clunk in between songs!"

At 02:25 in the video he points out the volume pedal on his board.

At 8:19 this pedal can be seen on his board.

In the shot at 0:49 you can see an Ernie Ball VP JR. in use

In this photo posted on Matt's instagram, you can see a VP JR. at the bottom of the image

from social post "writing"

Jason uses an Ernie Ball VP Jr on his pedalboard with no mods.

saw it on his pedalboard

Used as Nicks go to volume pedal

According to Premier Guitar's Rig Rundown with Citizen, Nick uses an Ernie Ball VP Jr.

According to Premier Guitar's Rig Rundown with Citizen, Ryland uses an Ernie Ball VP JR.

In this video at 16:29 you can see this pedal located on the far right of the pedal board.

In this video from March 2016, Robby shows us his current pedalboard for The Contortionist. He uses an Ernie Ball Volume Pedal.

Moog Slim Phatty, Boss Octave pedal (either OC-2 or OC-3), TS9DX Turbo Tube Screamer, Moog Lowpass Filter, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, Boss DD-5 Digital Delay, Avalon U5 for DI output, Eden Traveler 400-watt head (sounds much better than 800-watt versions in my opinion), 1×15 Ampeg cabinet, 4×10 Gallien-Krueger cabinet.

In the second 0:06 you can see all the pedals you use with Best Coast

1:35 in this livey vidd

Shown in the background on his pedalboard.

On the Instagram post each of the band member's gear is specified including Zack's effect pedals.

Josh has a ernie ball vp jr volume pedal on his pedal board

Here Jacob says he uses the Ernie Ball VPjr.