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An active volume pedal or using a buffered pedal of any sort in front of it will remove those effects and is much more like turning the amp gain up and down.
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I have no choice but to use a pedal because it's used to manipulated a bunch of stuff in the AxeFX all at the same time and in different directions and all at different rates..
I know what you mean about precision though.. I get around this be deciding 'where on the curve' I want / need the most control.. this generally tends to be towards the heel-down end of the curve because the final 1/3 up to toe-down is where all the gain is so there's no real benefit from detailed control..
so.. the curve tends to be flattest from heel-down to mid-way, then gets steeper from mid-way up to toe-down..
with all the stuff I have under control, there are some really interesting / pretty tones to be had in that middle 1/3 of the expression pedal's throw..
I do have another pedal that controls the level of the guitar's signal at the point of entry into the AxeFX
this behaves very much like a passive volume pedal because it's placed before the 'grid' [and therefore before the noise gate]..
I use this for off / on and bowing effects.. but generally not for tone reasons
I used the volume on guitar to clean sound up and used volume on pedal to lower volume but still keep gain.
That way if I want a raunchy sound at lower volumes I could leave guitar volume up but foot pedal down and raise volume pedal for solo. Or vice versa, I could have guitar volume down to clean tone up but increase volume pedal for enough power for a cleaner solo.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.