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I'm obsessed with wah and went on a wah bender a year or so back. Best wah I have and have ever played is a Castledine Standard wah. True bypass, buffered output (so it plays nice in front of fuzz), amazing sound. They're not cheap (I bought the PCB and put it in an old Vox 847 shell) but completely worth it. I also really love old Colorsound wahs, but the enclosures aren't great and they can be noisy. Brad at Creepy Fingers makes great clones though. I'd go to him if I wanted that sound. Otherwise, Joe Gagan is the man. Grab one of his drop-in replacement boards (take your pick) for a Crybaby and you've got a great wah for cheap.
Black Cat Mona wah (Joe's involved there, too) is another great option.

tuj wrote:I always wanted one of those Snarling Dogs wah's that are also a ring mod (the yellow one) but after doing some research, it appears that the Mold Spore tends to blow apart a certain component when it gets hit with any kind of voltage above 9.1v. Kind of lame, and the company is out of business. I have a broken Mold Spore somewhere in storage I never did get to work.

Yeah I wanted one of those from way back when they were in catalogs, but I too eventually heard about their poor build quality which discouraged me. I still hope that a builder somewhere will try to recreate it.

I use a Vox Clyde McCoy and I like it. I never went too deep into wah pedals because it does the job.

bigchiefbc wrote:

kbithecrowing wrote:

bigchiefbc wrote:Wilson Freaker. Based on the Tychobrahe Parapedal, but really tweakable. Plus true bypass and an LED, everything I ever wanted in a wah.

Do you use the freaker wah + tone machine octave up combo? if so how does it sound?

I don't use the octave up on the Tone Machine all that much, I usually leave it on the normal fuzz mode. But yes, I use the Tone Machine and the Freaker together constantly. In fact, a lot of times at gigs, I just leave the wah and the tone machine both on in the loop of my LS-2 so I can engage them both together. It creates this awesome squalling sound that I over-use like hell. The crowd seems to dig it.

I have rehearsal tonight, I'll give the octave-up a try with the freaker and report back.

Thx
Also, do you run TM-> Freaker?

Budda wah
Black cat vintage Wah
Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah

In that order.

Love my Crybaby from Hell. Versatile, lots of tweakability, great sound and the gain kick switch is pretty useful.

Danelectro danowah!
So good for white noise when the French Toast circuit is engaged

why is it that the wah makers seem to call 'cutoff frequency sweep range' as "Q" (no!) and resonance as "Quack" or "Honk"?

why can't they just use the normal filter terminology? Same for some of the autowahs.

Anyway, the Wilson in the demos sounds exactly like what I am looking for, which is a full-range filter type sound. I'm really excited, plus it looks like the dude lives in my hometown. :-) Thanks for all the suggestions, feel free to keep them coming; I suppose there's a chance I might not dig the Wilson.

friendship wrote:

tuj wrote:I always wanted one of those Snarling Dogs wah's that are also a ring mod (the yellow one) but after doing some research, it appears that the Mold Spore tends to blow apart a certain component when it gets hit with any kind of voltage above 9.1v. Kind of lame, and the company is out of business. I have a broken Mold Spore somewhere in storage I never did get to work.

Yeah I wanted one of those from way back when they were in catalogs, but I too eventually heard about their poor build quality which discouraged me. I still hope that a builder somewhere will try to recreate it.

I use a Vox Clyde McCoy and I like it. I never went too deep into wah pedals because it does the job.

MASF builds a ring mod into a wah enclosure but I have yet to see one for sale. I am sure you could put a wah board in there too.

Colorsound wah has been my favorite

Black Cat Mona Vintage Wah (the regular one, not the one full of knobs) or the Wilson Freaker?

Adam Franklin uses a Vox so I like those cause, but also I have that chrome 535q that can get a range of wahs so that too...

I use an old 18v Dunlop 535q wah and love it. Doesn't have true bypass and they do suck a bit of tone but I run through a bypass looper. Now it's perfect. I am planning on modding the boost and Q controls to side mounted like the newer ones instead of the bottom mounted. Also thinking of modding it for dual inductors. I also got rid of the cheap shitty bypass switch and hard wired it to always on since I run it through the bypass looper.

kbithecrowing wrote:

bigchiefbc wrote:

kbithecrowing wrote:

bigchiefbc wrote:Wilson Freaker. Based on the Tychobrahe Parapedal, but really tweakable. Plus true bypass and an LED, everything I ever wanted in a wah.

Do you use the freaker wah + tone machine octave up combo? if so how does it sound?

I don't use the octave up on the Tone Machine all that much, I usually leave it on the normal fuzz mode. But yes, I use the Tone Machine and the Freaker together constantly. In fact, a lot of times at gigs, I just leave the wah and the tone machine both on in the loop of my LS-2 so I can engage them both together. It creates this awesome squalling sound that I over-use like hell. The crowd seems to dig it.

I have rehearsal tonight, I'll give the octave-up a try with the freaker and report back.

Thx
Also, do you run TM-> Freaker?

Yes, I like both wah->fuzz and fuzz->wah, so I have the FTM before the freaker, and my elements and algal bloom after.

By the way, the octave up sounded really cool, made the combo even more screechy/squally.

I like
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it sounds great
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Yeah Dunlop puts the shittiest bypass and switches in their wahs. My switch fucked up within about a month of use. considering that the 535q wah is supposed to be their flagship model