Harley Benton Space Volume

The Harley Benton Space Volume is a volume pedal built around one idea: give the player control over where the treadle's sweep starts and ends. Most volume pedals go from full silence at the heel to full level at the toe. The Space Volume adds a Range (Attenuate) knob that sets the heel-down floor anywhere from 0 dB to +10 dB, so it can work as a plain volume pedal, a swell pedal with a raised minimum, or a clean boost of up to +10 dB when you push the toe down¹.

Harley Benton announced it on 6 August 2026 as part of a three-pedal Space series launch, alongside the Space Wah and the combined Space Wah / Volume². Gearnews reported the launch and noted the volume pedal's price at €39³. Harley Benton describes it as "a pragmatic pedal with a cosmic twist" and says it is "built for silky-smooth swells"¹.

A volume pedal with an adjustable floor

The core of the pedal is the rocker treadle combined with the Range (Attenuate) control. Harley Benton's product page describes this as a "Range (Attenuate) control for minimum volume and pedal sweep (0 dB to +10 dB)"¹. In practice, that single knob decides what the heel position means:

• Set at 0 dB: the heel is silence, and the pedal works like a conventional volume pedal for swells and fades.
• Set partway up: the heel becomes a lower playing level, useful for dropping between rhythm and lead without going fully quiet.
• Set at +10 dB: the heel is your normal level and the toe down position gives you a boost, which Harley Benton's launch material sums up as "a boost up to +10dB when you need power"².

Gearnews covered the same behavior from the player's angle, writing that the pedal "can attenuate your guitar signal from 0 dB to +10 dB" and that "the volume section provides up to +10 dB of boost"³. The maker's own wording is that it is built "with a range knob to set your floor from silence to a +10dB boost"².

The pedal is a low-impedance design, which Gearnews notes "helps maintain your signal"³. That matters for players running long cable runs or several pedals in front of it, since a low-impedance stage is less prone to the treble loss that passive high-impedance volume pedals can introduce as they are turned down. The listed input impedance is 250 kOhm¹.

The Space Volume is the volume-only model in the series. The Space Wah / Volume combines a wah and a volume pedal in one treadle unit, with the same rotary minimum volume control on its volume side, ranging 0 dB to +10 dB, and a wah sweep from 400 Hz at heel down to 2 kHz at toe down⁴. If you only need volume control, the Space Volume is the simpler and smaller choice; if you want both effects under one foot, the combined pedal covers both.

The range control and jacks

The aux/tuner output is the feature that separates the Space Volume from basic passive volume pedals. Harley Benton says "the aux/tuner output means you can tune up silently without breaking the flow of a set"¹. Rather than unplugging to reach a tuner, you leave one connected to the aux output and tune at any point in the treadle's travel.

The pedal uses a true bypass design¹, so with the signal routed straight through, the pedal does not load the guitar the way an always-active circuit would. The housing is aluminum¹, and at 252 x 105 x 70 mm and 0.77 kg it is a full-size treadle pedal intended to sit at the front of a board, which Harley Benton says it is "ready to sit at the front of your board for years to come"¹.

Power

The Space Volume runs on a 9 V battery or a 9 V DC power supply³. The power connection is a 5.5 x 2.1 mm barrel connector with center negative polarity⁴.

Because it accepts a battery, the pedal works on boards without a dedicated power feed, though the boost function means the active circuitry is doing real work when the Range knob is set above 0 dB³²¹.

Where it came from

Gearnews reported the Harley Benton Space Volume at a list price of €39³. The Space Volume is in production¹, while the combined Space Wah / Volume is available on request⁴.

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