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[ItsaBass]

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Well, better late than never! It's one of the oldest effects in the book. Cocked wah sounds (actual wah pedal left on, or – more often – similar effects) are essential to the way I play electric guitar. It's the big reason that my main guitars have solidly become Esquires with the Eldred mod. (One of them even has a switch that lets me select three difference capacitances for the Eldred position.) It's also the reason why I often go with quite low capacitance values on my tone controls, and run them on 0. I also made myself a foot pedal that instantly switches a passive tone pot on. There is a 6-way switch on it that lets the user (i.e. me) select different capacitors. One of the main ways I use this pedal is to give a non-Esquire guitar the Eldred position (with some added tuneability).

 

[Diego]

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I've never even owned a wah pedal. I'm still way later to the party than you!

 

[blueman335]

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I've never even owned a wah pedal. I'm still way later to the party than you!

Diego baby, you gotta do something about that. There's a lot of good wahs in the market now, it's gotten very competitive & the quality and features are much better than they were in the 1990's.

 

[ehdwuld]

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Had a volume pedal once
And some multipedals with a foot rocker, but i always assigned it other functions than wah


*(Sent from my durned phone!)*

 

[Artie]

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Does this party involve your Japanese Girl?

Hey! You're the one that dumped her.

Well, better late than never!

That could become my new moniker.

 

[GuitarStv]

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I discovered the 'cocked wah' sound when I thought I had toed enough to turn off my crybaby and started playing the next song. Properly positioned, it works great to get the right sound to cover 'Money for Nothing'.

 

[Progbusters]

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I made a MOD diy Tea Philter fixed wah, it works with high gain for my schenker fix. I'm thinking of getting that new electro harmonix cock fight.. Otherwise my vox a247 is good enough

 

[Securb]

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Besides Hendrix, Zappa was a big fan of cocked wahs (he turned Hendrix on to wahs)

Zappa did not get the nasally tone from a cocked wah he used a Systech Harmonic Energizer a totally different animal. Yes, I know Frank could beat the hell out of a wah, but that famous cocked wah tone of his is the Systech Harmonic Energizer. There are a couple of companies that make clones TWA and Fredric make one seeing the originals are rare as unicorns. Dweezil now uses the TWA version instead of taking his father's vintage Systech Harmonic Energizers on the road.

 

[treyhaislip]

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Hey! You're the one that dumped her.

Haha! :lmao:

Sad but true story lol

Glad you are still rocking her, best sounding Wah I've ever used! :headbang:

 

[NotCardio]

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^^ The MXR Q-zone did that as well. Wanted one ahwile back but they were discontinued...so I just used my wah (duh)

Me, too. I just looked and the same pedal that was discounted for about $70 when they disco'd 'em, is now going for a minimum of $200, some for $250.

For any of you tinkerers out there, there probably couldn't be an easier thing to build than one of these, except maybe an A/B switch.

I think I just talked myself into a project.

 

[beaubrummels]

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Two pages and no mention of Barry Goudreau and Tom Scholz?

Skip to 5 minutes where he talks about it...

 

[Brandenburg]

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i get a cocked wah effect from my guitar by using the bridge humbucker and neck single together....kind of a high mid thing going.. great for some stuff

 

[Demanic]

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This thread is making me want to add my Weeping Demon back into my signal path.

 

[blueman335]

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This thread is making me want to add my Weeping Demon back into my signal path.

It's a cool wah. Why'd you take it out? To put in a different wah?