Wah Pedal Shootout!
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TonyFlyingSquirrel
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Maybe so, the Trailer Trash Pedal boards kind of inspired that idea, but perhaps it's not practical.
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Color me Original Dunlop Crybaby, but I did mod mine so that it's easier to swtich on and off. I hated how you had to stomp the thing to get it to switch so I pulled the crappy felt pad that was originally there and replaced it with a rubber stopper cut down to fit just inside the flange. Now it's easy to swtich by just stomping all the way down on it. It's also easier to feel when the button catches/releases so I know when it's on or off.
Speaking of other pedals though, I had a chance to play with a Robotalk 2 recently while I was jamming with a friend. Very interesting tone out of it and it was very easy to set up and get a really good wah from. The only problem is that there's no way to shape the envelope while you're playing. But if you're looking to use it like Satch does (as a filtering effect and not dynamically), then it's a very reasonable alternative.
Speaking of other pedals though, I had a chance to play with a Robotalk 2 recently while I was jamming with a friend. Very interesting tone out of it and it was very easy to set up and get a really good wah from. The only problem is that there's no way to shape the envelope while you're playing. But if you're looking to use it like Satch does (as a filtering effect and not dynamically), then it's a very reasonable alternative.
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GearBoxTy said:
Same here. I worried about finding the sweet spot on a spring loaded pedal, tone, latency, but it all faded away after using the Bad Horsie. If it ever breaks, I'll by another one.
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I'm really not much of a lead player in the traditional sense. I'm just not all that fond of shredding aside from the fact that I'm not terribly good at it. I play my wah a bit more like Adam Jones, I use it to surf, Find the harmonic I like and ride the wave until I feel like changing it up.
Having said that, I had a band mate that had a handful of the dunlop signature wahs, he had an original, a zakk wylde, dimebag darryl and slash wahs. My favorite of his was the dimebag because it was so customizable, and I really hated the zakk wylde version, it was all low end and sounded cardboard thin.
Myself I use an original crybaby I modded myself, I wish I knew where the website was that walked me though it, but I basically swapped out the switch for a 3pdt, added an LED to let me know it was on, and bypassed a buffer section.
You can see on the upper left on the PCB where I've got a red and orange wire braided together bypassing where a resistor used to be. And a few other resistors were desoldered and removed. I don't know exactly what it did, but I've side-by-side compared it to an unmodded pedal and it just sounds a bit more... hendrix-y... i guess. I like it a lot, and its become the staple of my Wah work. Never need to get another wah.
having said that. the built in Wah's on my GT10 are pretty amazing too, some of them I like better than my modded pedal and have lately tended to use them more. Its especially nice because you can customize the sensitivity and range of the treadle as well. That's not something you can do with a traditional wah.
Having said that, I had a band mate that had a handful of the dunlop signature wahs, he had an original, a zakk wylde, dimebag darryl and slash wahs. My favorite of his was the dimebag because it was so customizable, and I really hated the zakk wylde version, it was all low end and sounded cardboard thin.
Myself I use an original crybaby I modded myself, I wish I knew where the website was that walked me though it, but I basically swapped out the switch for a 3pdt, added an LED to let me know it was on, and bypassed a buffer section.
You can see on the upper left on the PCB where I've got a red and orange wire braided together bypassing where a resistor used to be. And a few other resistors were desoldered and removed. I don't know exactly what it did, but I've side-by-side compared it to an unmodded pedal and it just sounds a bit more... hendrix-y... i guess. I like it a lot, and its become the staple of my Wah work. Never need to get another wah.
having said that. the built in Wah's on my GT10 are pretty amazing too, some of them I like better than my modded pedal and have lately tended to use them more. Its especially nice because you can customize the sensitivity and range of the treadle as well. That's not something you can do with a traditional wah.
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I keep trying to talk one of my brothers into doing that with his M13 and a Mission pedal, which supposedly lets you do the same thing. He keeps buying wah pedals and being unhappy when he's got the ability to customize a controller pedal to do exactly what he wants just by tweaking some software settings.
But, he's an Apple kind of guy. If it ain't right first crack out of the box, then it's NFG. I'm surprised he kept the last stove he bought, since the burners weren't already lit when they delivered it.
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Death by Uberschall said:http://www.wilsoneffects.com/RippahBoosterWahs.html :icon_thumright:
I'm liking what I'm hearing and reading about this wah a LOT.
I curently have a standard Dunlop and never use it. I had a Morley way back 20 something years ago and liked the tone (optical circuit for the notch) but -- it was cheaply built and eventually fell apart.
If I end up getting that Wilson I will follow up with impressions.