Best (or your favorite) wah pedal that doesn’t degrade your tone?

[BoomBoomChild]

Best (or your favorite) wah pedal that doesn’t degrade your tone?

This would likely be one with a true-bypass design, or simply one that just sounds great and doesn’t happen to rob your tone when you run your signal through it. Which wah pedal(s) do you guys prefer for this? There are so many.

 

[Lewguitar]

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You need one with full bypass.

I love my stock Fulltone Clyde and my Vox 847 that John (STRATDELUXER) modded for me to have full bypass.

Look for a nice used Vox 847 and send it to John so he can mod it like a Fulltone...or just get a Fulltone Clyde.



Lew

 

[B Bent]

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I would be interested in hearing what folks say about the Fulltone Clyde. It's supposed to be what you describe above. I just have 0 experience with it.

EDIT: see... Lew already started before I could submit.

 

[GuitarStv]

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Dunlop 535Q . . . works fantastically well for me, and no tone loss . . .

 

[wildstar]

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Dunlop 535Q . . . works fantastically well for me, and no tone loss . . .

+1

I was concerned about tone loss when in bypass, with this wah. In fact I started a thread about it a few weeks ago, before buying one... I'm very happy with it. No tone loss that I notice in normal playing situations. I don't know if I would hear a loss if I did a critical recording, in an isolated studio enviroment... but who cares?

535Q is a GREAT wah. I love the tweakability.

Previously owned a HomeBrew Medicine Bawl. Really classy sound. classic, great tone, true bypass. I needed something more tweakable, so got a 535Q.

 

[MDS]

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I went through the Wah thing about a month ago. I owned a Bad Horsie and a Crybaby for years and started shopping for something better. I live in LA so I have a lot of access to high end gear. I played the RMCs, the Dunlops, etc. and the Clyde really stood out. It is a seriously solid piece of gear. A lot of pros in LA are using them as well...Mike Fuller knows what he is doing!

Mike

 

[Gearjoneser]

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The Budda Bud Wah is a great one for $160. Purple and chrome is kinda cool too. I had one of those for years, and now the Fulltone Clyde Deluxe is my 'end of the road' for wahs.

 

[BoomBoomChild]

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Thanks guys (and girls). I remember the whole deal over the different types of bypass design used to supposedly preserve the original tone; virtual bypass, true bypass, triple bypass, lethal bypass, demonic bypass… I had been considering wahs for years now. It’s just that the other day I heard this song by Paradise Lost and there was a really cool use of a wah on there and so that finally sealed the deal.

 

[Bludave]

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I have a vintage Thomas Organ Company Crybaby that I had modded with a power supply and a true bypass. Its an excellent Wah and is the Wah that I use at home (it was made in the late 60's so I tend to baby it). My other Wah is a Vox Clyde McCoy and this also is true bypass also.

It really depends on what type of sound you are looking for. As Lew said the Fullerton Clyde is the pedal right out of the box that will nail the vintage tones quite well. If Hendrix or early Clapton Wah is what you want thats the one to get. as Lew said if you can find a Vox847 used and send it to John his mods will get you real close to the Fulertone Clyde. The mods he did on mine made the wah pedal usable. Prior to him fixing it for me it was a Wah that sat on the shelf. Now I use it all the time. I actually like the tone of this a little better than the tone of the Clyde McCoy I use.

 

[Skarekrough]

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I'm really happy with my Weeping Demon from Ibanez.

It's ugly as sin but VERY tweakable and has bypass on it.

BTW...I use it for Blues.

 

[XSSIVE]

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i went through a few wahs and now i have one i love...the morley tremonti wah. pearfect for what i need and no need to push down on the stupid button to turn it on and off. that was a key selling point for me since i tend to toss in some wah use at random points in real quick areas of a song and trying to turn the wah on and off real fast with the typical button under the pedal drove me insane.

-Mike

 

[DLT]

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Does anybody know what kind of Wah Slash (GnR) uses? What ever he uses it handles the low tones very well. That is what I am looking for.

Where can you try out these Fulltone Clydes? Guitar Center have them?

 

[kmcguitars]

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If you can get your hands on a pre 90' GCB-95? It's pretty EZ to mod for true bypass. The from 90' on GCB-95's have the Jacks mounted in the PCB . This makes it somewhat of a nightmare to Mod for true bypass.:arg:

 

[KLINKDETROIT]

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Dunlop DCR-1SR rackmount crybaby

 

[Brow]

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I have a Vox 847 wah that John Spina (Stratdeluxer97) modded for me with True Bypass, External 'Q' Control and External Volume control.

It's great, I love it

 

[That90'sGuy]

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My favorite has always been (and probably always will be) the Pro Analog Supa Quack. At around $300 though, it's not cheap.

 

[THE DUG]

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C.F.H.!! crybaby from hell= versital, sounds awesome, looks cool, no tone robbing & priced good.i saw one for sale in the tradin post here for $100 shipped i think.awesome deal.

 

[metal]

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i have the zakk wylde sig wah and its killer , thick and mean!

 

[Monty-Jay]

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Does anybody know what kind of Wah Slash (GnR) uses? What ever he uses it handles the low tones very well. That is what I am looking for.

Recently, Slash has been using two Dunlop rack wahs, the 1SR and 2SR. The 1SR was Dunlop's 2nd rack wah and the 2SR is their 3rd. Slash also has his own SIGNATURE Dunlop rack wah and he must be using that now as well. From what I hear, it's similar to the 2SR but with a built in distortion circuit and fine tuned to slash's specs.

Prior to the Dunlop rack wahs, he used the EMB Audio rack wah. This was also used by Hammett, Vai, and Santana for awhile.

Personally, I love my Teese RMC3 for vintage voicings, it's clean and crisp with a ton of quack. For modern high gain stuff, I have a Morley bad horsie II, Dunlop 535Q, and an EMB Audio rack wah. They're all cool, but different

MJ