Fender Solves An Age-Old Gretsch Dilemma
Some of us loves our mud switches (and surely many more of us after hearing Steve Hunter), but that's far from universal.
Others of us loves our mud switches but sure wish we had a tone knob as well, for fine-tuning or those times when we just don't want to get muddy.
Few of us want to drill holes.
So check out Fender's new line of pedals. There's a phaser with pretty pulsing lights, a straight volume pedal; most exciting is the Volume-Tone pedal.
It's a standard rocker volume pedal in a great-looking chrome housing, built like the bumper of a 55 Caddy (but not QUITE as rounded). BUT the top of the footplate also rotates from side to side to control TONE.
Do you get what I'm thinking? A volume pedal is already indispensable for many gigging guitarists, and if we can get tone control at the same time, without giving up real estate or adding complication...duhhh?
Now we can haves our mud switches and our tone knob too. The line forms after me.
The final pedal in the line is a fuzz-wah in the same housing: smooth wah under the rocker, and progressive distortion with the rotater-plate. Another pretty good idea, I think.
The Vol-Tone is on the left.
Guess who 
