My etherwave will be arriving on Monday!
I’m getting it as a step up from my Kees Enkelaar, because the Kees let me down on stage so a friend lent me his etherwave and I loved it.
But, there’s a hitch. The output levels of the etherwave are way too high for my little delay boxes (a Marshall echohead and a Danelectro pb&j) so by the time the signal gets to my Fender 15R practice amp it’s going to be crackly as heck. (It happened on stage with the big amps - I got around it by keeping my hand in the bottom quarter of the volume field.)
I don’t want to do the output level lowering mod suggested in the hot-rodding manual for a couple of reasons; it’s a brand new etherwave and I don’t want to invalidate the warranty; I’m a danger to myself with a soldering iron in my hand and would feel like a total twonker asking a professional electrical engineer to change one resistor.
This wasn’t an issue with the Kees - it has an output volume control, so I can keep it turned down low when using the effects boxes. And I can turn it down even lower when playing quiet pieces so I get the full range of the volume field for expression, rather than cramping myself into the bottom of the field. This I like very much, and would like to have that facility on the etherwave.
So…
I’m thinking of getting a volume pedal. It’s got to be a cheap one because I’m on a tight budget. (I just spent most of my music allowance on an etherwave!) Also I don’t really want to compromise too much on quality.
Can you suggest something appropriate. I’ve been looking at this BOSS FV-50L -I think it’s right, but a bit more than I would like to pay - (I do need a low impedance pedal, yes?)
Also, while I’ve been scrambling my brains in wikipedia and harmony central over these last few days trying to figure it all out I discovered something called a Passive DI Box which seems to do exactly the opposite of what I want - turning guitar level signals into line-out level audio - is there a corresponding device that does the opposite of a DI box, or is it as simple as just swapping over the input and output jacks?
Your help with this will earn my undying gratitude. 
