Need some Wah advice

[chesire]

Hey all,

I've been using a Morley Visual Wah that I picked up a few months ago and I am realizing I really don't like it.

Its very high pitched, lacks balls and produces a lot of noise in my signal chain. I've played around with it by adjusting the light inside the body, but I can't get a tone I like.

Any advice?

I play blues and blues rock.

Thanks

[RubyRae]

check out wilsoneffects.com

he has some of the best wah pedals I have ever heard. the rippahQ is one of my favs.

[vjf1968]

You may also want to look at this:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MC404CAE/

Has a built in and adjustable boost control, two Fasel inductors, adjustable "Q" and true bypass. You can look on this as a budget version of the RMC Real McCoy3 Wah.

[AngelStrummer]

Get either a standard Dunlop Crybaby and true bypass it or a Fulltone Clyde Standard. Nothing fancy, but they both do the job if you want classic wah tones.

[Durango Twango]

The MC404/CAE wah is great. I had a Clyde Deluxe and it was nice, but had too much top end and bass cut for my tastes. The CAE is very musical on either setting and doesn't require anything special for settings on the downstream pedals.

[Telesavalis]

Originally Posted by AngelStrummer

Get either a standard Dunlop Crybaby and true bypass it or a Fulltone Clyde Standard. Nothing fancy, but they both do the job if you want classic wah tones.

This is good advice.

[ramseybella]

#1 On the Wilson.

[Thin69]

If you hadn't already tried this, change up the order of your pedals. I never used my Dunlap 535Q much until I put my overdrive in front of it. Now I love it. I just played the heck out of it this evening because it is sounding great.

The 535Q has extra controls and a boost. I leave the settings the same for single coil, humbuckers with or without an overdrive in front.

[Tim Bowen]

I like having a couple of different wahs for different scenarios. At a recent session, I used a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe for cleanish wacka wacka "Shaft" noises (more pronounced throw and articulated high end), and I preferred the nasal timbre and vocal belch of a Teese Picture wah for nasty blues rock stuff. Both are great, both are different.

Of all the circuits I've played, the one that I'm a total snob about as to true bypass is wah. Nothing sucks tone across a signal path, in my opinion, like a buffered wah placed first or early in the chain.

As mentioned, there are lots of "tuneable" wahs available; Geoffrey Teese has lots to offer in this respect, as do others.

An innovation that I'd really like to see from the builders that truly understand wah circuits is a 'switchless' wah that doesn't tonally suck eggs, and sounds like an old Italian wah, a vintage VOX or Crybaby, or thereabout. The reason I mention this is because I play lap steel whilst seated, and engaging or disengaging a traditional wah can be a logistical monkey wrench in the gears when one is seated.

[AngelStrummer]

Originally Posted by Telesavalis

This is good advice.

Thank you sir!