What's your favorite wah pedal

[solspirit]

I do like the sound of a vintage ParaPedal, although it sounds vastly different than typical wahs (much bigger sweep). It is the sound that Tony Iommi had in the early 80s. They fetch high prices, and even modern clones are expensive.

Do the modern clones compare in performance?

[Securb]

I like that they demo the wah pre and post-distortion. I am one of those rare people that likes my wah at the end of the chain. Not too many wah demos show this option.

[GuitarStv]

Not if I start the song with it.

Hahahaha . . . I've done this. Start playing and I'm scrambling to figure out why everything sounds so weird.

Oh. It's the damned wah. :P

[solspirit]

I like that they demo the wah pre and post-distortion. I am one of those rare people that likes my wah at the end of the chain. Not too many wah demos show this option.

Yeah, this is my favorite demo so far.

[Mincer]

Do the modern clones compare in performance?

Never trying them side by side, I don't know. I've only herd them on records and pedal demos.

[Demanic]

Wah at the end of the chain? Don't think that that would sound good with the amount of gain that I use. But I could try it, you never know.
What I should try is wah in the loop.

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[Ascension]

Have a pair of old George Dennis CD 30 orange optical wahs that I have been running for over 20 years now. They just work no drama no worries about dirty pots with the optical and they are absolutely bulletproof reliable.
2 of these

[Ascension]

Here is one of my old Geogre Dennis GD 30 Wahs in action with my Kiesel DC and through my Prs Archon. These sound fantastic and are built like tanks it's a shame they aren't available any more new.

[Ascension]

Another clip from a few years back with one of my Dennis GD 30's through the little Boogie Subway. Doing some of the Gospel stuff i do I really beat on a Wah and the Dennis wahs have been the only ones that have held up to the pounding. I need to replace the power input to one and that's the first time I have ever had to repair anything on these things in the 20 + years Ive been beating the heck out of them Crybabies and the like with normal pots don't last a year without some issue with me. These with the heavy metal case and being optical I never touch they just work every night!

[El Dunco]

Dime crybaby. Basically a Q with camo and skateboard tape. I have it dialled in just how I like. It doesn’t get mushy or washed out through any amp or gain level. I have it set darker (lower on the sweep sweep toe down) and a bit more vocal than Dime sets his and the bandwidth knob helps avoid that “robble-robble” sound Kirk Hammett uses that I just don’t like.

[Securb]

Wah at the end of the chain?

If you go to 1:30 it is wah at the end of the chain with fairly high gain.

[solspirit]

I'm leaning towards the 535q because of the price and never really hearing a bad review.

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

I like my dime wah from hell a lot, but I also love the plain Jane Dunlop crybaby as well.
I find myself using them very sparingly these days.

[GuitarStv]

I'm leaning towards the 535q because of the price and never really hearing a bad review.

Just be aware if you're buying used - there have been a ton of circuit board revisions for the 535Q (From A all the way up to F). Dunlop has lied about it being true bypass for most of these revisions . . . from the circuits I've traced, it's just F that's actually TB though. Some of the earlier boards can suck tone pretty badly when off. It's possible to modify an older revision to be true bypass, but not always simple depending on which circuit revision.

[Lucy Diamond]

My first (regular old Crybaby Wah) I got for Christmas all those years ago was always by favorite but way too noisy, so I've spent my guitar playing life searching for the same but not noisy.

My two current favored wahs are the Jerry Cantrel (the copper one) and the Buddy Guy.

I bought a Buda Wah years ago and hated it.

I have the Dime Crybaby from Hell but it's so confusing and I'm constantly messing with knobs that never seem to make me happy.

I'm pretty sure I have one other one but I can't remember off hand. I just love wah pedals.