Tele tone dying out with Vox Wah?

Interesting. I hear what you are talking about, but no I’ve not experienced that. In fact, I get the opposite. Sizzling high end that makes the insides of my ears itch.

 

Putting a wah to bass side and playing high notes as well as putting a wah to treble side a playing low notes might result in low output... a wah is boosting certain narrow frequency range and almost cutting everything else...

but that's not what I hear in the video... it sounds like a "faulty" wah... is it stock and which one is it?

Edit: Solo starts at 4:15

 

You can hear same high treble *clank* when you rhythmically hit the muted string... so the wah generally can produce treble... so I doubt that it has some custom added low pass that makes the higher notes inaudible... I also don't hear a compressor causing this.... It seems to be one of those wahs that have a remarkable treble boost in front-down-position... it might be that the internal transistor can't handle that much treble any more and gets unstable?

 

What I heard was the keyboards getting louder, more aggressive, eating up the sonic space, and washing out your guitar.

Sorry, but I think it was just a mix problem.

 

Is that this one? The V847? I have the same one. I’ll try to make a point to listen with headphones later to try to hear what you’re describing. If it’s the same one, you already know that it’s a clean wah, but it does have a big sweep.

Always hard to judge anything for these types of recordings - all I hear so far is great-sounding guitar and killer playing! Thanks for sharing.

 

If you got a tubescreamer of some sort you might test the following: gain min, vol high noon, treble reduced and than place it before and after the way and try to reproduce it... the goal is to have a treble reduce signal with similar level and see how it behaves...

 

Maybe your battery is going dead in the wah wah.

 

I had some issues with what you're describing (although I'm not hearing it in your recording. It's a nice juicy wah sound to me) with my Crybaby wah many years ago. It just didn't have enough "travel" into the higher register for me, so you know what I did? I opened it up and played with where the teeth of the potentiometer start on the teeth of the rocker. I eventually came up with something that worked. I also eventually switched out the original pot that came in my 90s Crybaby with a Hot Potz potentiometer. It sounds so much better than the limp-d!ck tone of how it sounded originally when I bought it.

I'd say give it a try of messing with the travel of the teeth of the pot a try. It'll give your wah an adjustment to the voice. Maybe use a silver sharpie to mark where it is now on both sets of teeth, then lower or raise accordingly.

 

It is indeed a neat trick. A cheap one, too! You might find that you love playing through your wah wah pedal even more once you get it how you want it.