I done it again

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I thought about just putting some clear on this one, as I love the bare look, but the sanding marks would have bothered me too much, and I couldn't quite get them out with 60 or 150 grit paper. So I'm painting this one as well. I won't have a free day for a few weeks, so I might just have to pull another all nighter to get it done. I don't have anything to put into it at the moment (yesterday it was an expression pedal) so I'm weighing my options as to what I might drop in this one. I want something very different from my crybaby though.

Should be fun
 
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If you want the sanding marks out, do it just like you would a clear coat finish, then you could hit it with some Mother's polish, and THEN coat it. It would be almost a mirror finish
 
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That's good advice. Unfortunately, I want to paint it more than I want a bare one. Maybe someday I'll have a bare one.
 
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Go with a Parababy wah kit, that's about the farthest you can get from a typical crybaby or vox wah sound. I kind of miss the parababy I had a few years back when I had my massive wah collection. It was the odd duck of the bunch and nailed the Iommi style wah tone, fun pedal. Almost a bit more WOW that WAH sounding.
 
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I actually found something just as awesome as the parachute kit, but $60 cheaper - Joe Gagan's Musonic replica. This is what it will sound like:



It's based on this wah, and IMO (at least through youtube) it sounds pretty close:



I think I'm becoming a bit of a wah aficionado. I may get a parachute kit later but this should be great for now.
 
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But the musonic is just another inductor based wah like a crybay or a vox, very much from the same breed of animal. I thought you wanted something very different? It will certainly sound different when compared to a typical crybaby but it won't be as vastly different as a parachute, EMB or Morley would be in comparison. The reason the parachute sounds so different is because it doesn't use an inductor and uses a dual gang pot, it's a a different way to create a wah sound which gives you more of a wow voice in some cases. You can get musonic sound from a crybaby or vox with the right mods. There's basically 3 types of wahs, the crybaby and vox inductor based versions, the Parachute and EMB inductorless style and Morely LED/LDR style.

If you listen to the bottom end of a parachute or EMB wah as it goes through the sweep it has this "whoomph" like sound and a bit of a wow to the voice that an inductor based wah can't do.

No inductor based wah can do this...

 
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I always thought it would be cool to house other types of effects in expression housings, and then wire the exp pot to whatever weird parameter you wanted to. Like, make it a phaser with a foot-controllable Rate pot or something.
 
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sosomething said:
I always thought it would be cool to house other types of effects in expression housings, and then wire the exp pot to whatever weird parameter you wanted to. Like, make it a phaser with a foot-controllable Rate pot or something.
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MXR does that with the variphase. It's a phase 90 in a wah enclosure with foot rocker controlled speed. There are two versions the original switchless and an updated version with a switch.
 
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Agileguy_101 said:
I did, but the Musonic kit was a 1/3rd the price. I'll get the parachute kit eventually, but this seemed like a cool option at a lower price.
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Makes sense. Welcome to the wah addiction, I've owned just shy of 30 wahs at last count. Got real obsessed with trying loads of them and modding them for a long time. Next step for me as I'm in the early stages of a rig rebuild based around racking and midi controlling all my pedals is the big daddy of the wahs, the Dunlop DCR-2SR rack wah.
 
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GuitarStv said:
Univibe? :P
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No, not just between fast / slow

I just think there's a lot more we could be doing with foot expression besides volume swells and filter sweeps.

I have a Strymon Mobius on my live board, and I have one of those Mission EXP pedals to control parameters. And maybe the coolest thing about the Mobius (outside of the sound) is how you can map virtually any parameter to the Expression pedal and save it as part of your patches. I even had a phaser patch where rocking the expression pedal toggled the effect between being in front of the amp or being in the loop.

It's just that kind of flexibility makes you think a little bit... what about OD / Fuzz? I think I'd actually get some use out of a nice OD where I could easily control the level of gain with a treadle.
 
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It's not hard to make an expression out on a pedal (unless it's one of those pedals where the circuit board takes up the whole inside) so I'm willing to bet most smaller shops would do it. I think the bigger issue is matching the correct resistance/taper expression pedal to the pot that the circuit was designed around.
 
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sosomething said:
I always thought it would be cool to house other types of effects in expression housings, and then wire the exp pot to whatever weird parameter you wanted to. Like, make it a phaser with a foot-controllable Rate pot or something.
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Even having a distortion's gain pot on a sweep would be cool - start a solo mellow then crank it up as you play. Maybe that's cooler in theory though.
 
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