Hey I'm looking into getting a new wah because I'm getting tired of always having to clean out the pot on my Vox V847 with it's constant scratchiness. I like the hendrixy sounds i get from it but I want a wah that kind of does the same thing but is just overall better. Anybody have any suggestions?

Hey Rossfloss,

I don't have an awful lot of experience with wah pedals, but I got a Dunlop Crybaby wah the other day, and it seems pretty good. I was able to dial in a hendrix-y tone quite easily using my pod.

Hope this helps, and I'm sure someone more knowledgeable on pedals will be around soon!

Drew

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I have the Crybaby 535q with the fasel inductor can get allot of different sounds out of that pedal well worth the money. I think Soundgarden used them also joe satriani..

Ernie Ball Wah. You'll never use anything else again.

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You're going to have to clean the pot on any wah occasionaly. Except the Morley ones that use a optical thingamee rather than a pot.

I personaly favour the Jen Wah of the 60's/70's. You can pick em up cheap if you're patient and dilligent. Around £50-£100. They sound far rounder than modern dunlops and vox's. Though I got significant improvment raising the value of the input capacitor on a Vox to .1uf. Very fat, very bassy sound with a load of volume boost. No good for band situations when you want wah rhythm, but great for home use when you want the boost.

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No no and no

I've had both a Classic Crybaby with the Fasel inductor and a Fulltone Clyde Standard wah. The Fulltone is better by a mile.

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Nah, I'll stick with the original. It's still cheaper and aint trying to be something.

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I second the motion for the Fulltone Clyde,also the Teese RMC picture wah is a fabulous pedal-a bit pricey but you certainly get what you pay for and then some.When the pot on my old Vox Clyde McCoy wah went I tried DungPlop and many other pots but finally found a great one at North Star Audio-it has the same taper and sound of the pot in the original Clyde McCoy wah.You can email Tom the owner here: tomlanik@earthlink.net or got to his website http://www.northstaraudio.net/

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