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Wah Pedal Shootout!

Which wah do you favor, and why?

  • Vox Clyde McCoy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dunlop Original Crybaby

    Votes: 4 28.6%

  • Dunlop Kirk Hammet

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Dunlop Jerry Cantrell

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 57.1%
  • Total voters
    14
  • Poll closed .
The though just occured to me.

I know there are a few tinkerers with a soldier iron and some of the BYOC kits.

Anyone tried thier Wah kit, maybe modded it a bit?
 
TonyFlyingSquirrel said:
The though just occured to me.

I know there are a few tinkerers with a soldier iron and some of the BYOC kits.

Anyone tried thier Wah kit, maybe modded it a bit?
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I've never heard their wah kit, but I can tell you their other kits are very well done with top notch parts, so I believe it's a safe buy of you're looking that way. Plus their forum is just as good as Unofficial Warmoth. I compare BYOC to Warmoth as for as the quality goes in what they do.
 
Death by Uberschall said:
TonyFlyingSquirrel said:
The though just occured to me.

I know there are a few tinkerers with a soldier iron and some of the BYOC kits.

Anyone tried thier Wah kit, maybe modded it a bit?
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I've never heard their wah kit, but I can tell you their other kits are very well done with top notch parts, so I believe it's a safe buy of you're looking that way. Plus their forum is just as good as Unofficial Warmoth. I compare BYOC to Warmoth as for as the quality goes in what they do.
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Good to hear, thanks DBU. 
Since I have some modelled Wahs in my POD, I may consider doing a BYOC kit & have my son build it with the Mod pots mounted to the side.

I've always liked the idea of being able to set the low shelf & the hi-shelf limits, as I never did use the wah to it's full range.  I'd always stop just short of each end of the treadle until I had to hit the on/off switch again. 

Too bad more wahs out there don't physically function like the switchless Morley or the Dunlop 95Q. 
 
In looking at BYOC's kit, it would be very easy to swap out their small trim pots with full sized pots of the same values to mount along the sides of the enclosure for full adjust-ability on the fly. Looks like a clean vintage spec wah with upgrades thrown in.

http://www.buildyourownclone.com/wah.html
 
My son is into doing this kind of thing big time.
He'll have my 2 yr old grandson working alongside him on all kinds of projects soon.

He made me a lil headphone amp out of an Altoid's tin that I have in my case.

I kind of wonder if sliding pots verses circular pots would be more usefull.  I'd be concerned that a lil too much pressure or imbalance with the foot could bust a pot, but aren't sliding pots more noisy, or get dirtier easier?
 
I think two issues with sliding pots would pop up, space and easy of installation into the side walls of the enclosure.

I don't think your foot would ever touch a pot on the side of the enclosure, especially with smaller knobs on them. The foot pad/lever assembly usually sit pretty high above the housing.

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Death by Uberschall said:
I think two issues with sliding pots would pop up, space and easy of installation into the side walls of the enclosure.

I don't think your foot would ever touch a pot on the side of the enclosure, especially with smaller knobs on them. The foot pad/lever assembly usually sit pretty high above the housing.

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I like the last pic, which wah is that?
 
I love my Morley Bad Horsie II wah.  I never use the contour option but the switchless design makes life so much easier.  I own an Original Cry Baby wah and that was my only wah for years but the Morley wins!
 
Recently Purchased a Used Morley Dual Bass Wah off Fleabay, Which reminded me i dont like buying on there considering the guy never said he posted it, but was a welcome surprise to find it at my door as a housemate was in when it was delivered luckily.

Not properly used it yet but it sounds good from me randomly using it.

Hopefully going to incorporate it in with my ashdown overdrive pedal i should be getting either myself used or a new one for birthday possibly mid april for some songs, But so far no complaints and it's built like it could do some serious injury and sustain serious injury without breaking, which i love compared to my behringer pedal i got years ago that is well you know......

Apologies for a bassist coming into a guitarists pedal discussion just thought i would share, as i found it used in many a guitar demo online, tracking down a bass demo was a PITA  considering its a BASS pedal, :icon_scratch: Specially one guy saying "Oh it's a bass pedal but ill use it with this here guitar"..... RAGEEE
 
Tried the Bonamassa & the Cantrell yesterday.

While I thought the Bonamassa was nice, I think the Cantrell is the better pick for my application.

I think it's so much smoother, and in the heel position it doesn't get into the indistinguishable vowel sounding harmonics, stops just shy of that.  It really has a classy vibe and keeps from getting painfully harsh in the top end.
 
You can probably get to all of Dunlop's signiture sounds with an original crybaby and $3 of resistors and capacitors.


http://www.wah-wah.co.uk/diy.html

http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/WahMod.htm

http://geofex.com/Article_Folders/wahpedl/wahped.htm

If you've got a soldering iron (or you can get your son to teach you how to use his) you're off. Modding wahs is easy because the circuit board isn't that crowded. And rather than blowing a bunch of money for some famous dude's mods, you can tweak the pedal yourself. I was in the process of modding my wah until I went digital.  :toothy11:

Also: The foot treadle never rotates the full length of the pot; this means that you can move the teeth on the plastic strip going down from the treadle up or down relative to the teeth on the pot and change the range of your wah. This can make a pretty big difference.
 
I've had my Buddha Bud-Wah for several years , by far my favortite  . I prefer those where you can set the opening and leave it partially open .. this does it well

I've played vinatge cry baby's and Vox's , nice units .. Wore out a Mu-tron Vol/Wah  it was great as you could use either or both
 
Justinginn said:
You can probably get to all of Dunlop's signiture sounds with an original crybaby and $3 of resistors and capacitors.


http://www.wah-wah.co.uk/diy.html

http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/WahMod.htm

http://geofex.com/Article_Folders/wahpedl/wahped.htm

If you've got a soldering iron (or you can get your son to teach you how to use his) you're off. Modding wahs is easy because the circuit board isn't that crowded. And rather than blowing a bunch of money for some famous dude's mods, you can tweak the pedal yourself. I was in the process of modding my wah until I went digital.  :toothy11:

Also: The foot treadle never rotates the full length of the pot; this means that you can move the teeth on the plastic strip going down from the treadle up or down relative to the teeth on the pot and change the range of your wah. This can make a pretty big difference.
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I can/do use a soldering iron frequently, but the idea of having my son involved is just fun. 

Now you got my gears turning, I like the idea of having a switchless, spring loaded wah that always returns to heel.  Perhaps getting Dunlop's 95Q wah & having my son do his thing to it ala the Wilson Effects Tunable Colorful Clone Model. 

It is possible though, that the 95Q may be tunable to the voicing similar to what's in the Cantrell already though.
 
TonyFlyingSquirrel said:
I like the idea of having a switchless, spring loaded wah that always returns to heel.  Perhaps getting Dunlop's 95Q wah & having my son do his thing to it ala the Wilson Effects Tunable Colorful Clone Model. 

It is possible though, that the 95Q may be tunable to the voicing similar to what's in the Cantrell already though.
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I recently went to a switchless, spring-loaded wah in the form of a Mission SP-1 continuous controller... Best. Wah. Ever. No wah electronics inside, so it may not be a solution for you, I'm just trying to reinforce what a great idea that switchless spring-loading thing is.
 
Cagey said:
TonyFlyingSquirrel said:
I like the idea of having a switchless, spring loaded wah that always returns to heel.  Perhaps getting Dunlop's 95Q wah & having my son do his thing to it ala the Wilson Effects Tunable Colorful Clone Model. 

It is possible though, that the 95Q may be tunable to the voicing similar to what's in the Cantrell already though.
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I recently went to a switchless, spring-loaded wah in the form of a Mission SP-1 continuous controller... Best. Wah. Ever. No wah electronics inside, so it may not be a solution for you, I'm just trying to reinforce what a great idea that switchless spring-loading thing is.
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I've actually considered this if I chose to use only the wah's inside the POD XT Live, but there's only a couple of them in there that I like, and since I have them programmed into presets, I can't remember the names of them off the top of my head, but I've heard nothing but good feedback on the Mission gear.
 
Their pedals are simply the best. Very robust, and very well-made. Not much to them, so little can fail. Kinda like old-time telephones. Very simple, tough enough to be used as murder weapons, and work great no matter what. Being able to use them as controllers for external electronics means you can adjust things forever to sound/behave exactly how you want them to, and the pedal never changes. It always feels the same. Lot to be said for that.
 
Since we have a plexi fabricator in Seattle (www.tapplastics.com), I've toyed with the idea of having them fabricate a fire polished acrylic Wah Pedal  bottom chassis, just to put the guts of a regular wah in it & install led's that change color/shading in real time to the variable sweep of the pedal. 

My son, again the electro-genius that he is, has ways to make this happen using separate AA batteries.
 
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