Please, for the love of tone, stay away from this. I don't know why it does this, but when you put it in your pedal chain it cuts signal strength, as if the maximum volume on the pots are set at 3/4 of the incoming signal.Also, you *can* repair them when the string breaks, but you'll hate yourself for it and wish you'd just bought a better volume pedal. I like the BOSS FV500H myself, even though it is huge. But stay away from this one.