birds and stones? trem pedal to tame deville volume pot?

Hey all,

I've been working on taming my blues deville. Planning to deal w/ the linear volume pot issue w/ a volume box or EQ pedal w/ volume in the effects loop (as well as V1&2 tube swaps). But I'm also thinking about getting an inexpensive tremolo pedal, and I see one some folks like here has a volume control on it. Valeton Wave Shark. I don't need an EQ pedal for what I do, but I'm interested in tremolo.

Would it work to pop the trem pedal in the effects loop, keep depth, speed and bias at 0 and just use it as a volume box? Then dial up the trem when I need it? Or when the pedal is on, is it always going to be doing more to the sound than just controlling the volume. (Like is 0 on speed actually "really slow" and 0 on depth actually "not too deep" but I'd always have some trem effect w/ the pedal engaged?)

I like to keep things simple. And I don't need to make fast changes to engage tremolo, so this seems like it might work.

Thanks for any insight.

 

also seeing voodoo labs pedal. a little more money, but used might work.

 

Cool. Thanks. Already swapping out v1 for sure. Do you think I could use the volume pot in a tremolo for that change in sweep? I‘Ve never used one of those pedals and I can’t really try one out now. Thanks!