Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

[JB_From_Hell]

I'm going back to separate pedals, so pretty soon, I'll be needing a wah.

I do NOT want:

-subtle
-classic, Vox-type sound

What I'm looking for is something like Kirk Hammet's live wah sound... big, fat and pukey. I've had the regular Crybaby & a Morley Bad Horsie, and neither one got me there.

I'm very curious about those Snarling Dogs wahs... I've never used one, but have heard good things.... help me out here!

Oh yeah, I'd like to keep it around $100, so no Fulltones or anything.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

I've tried one or 2 of them out and I felt like they were a much more classic wah tone...not as good as a nice modded Vox, teese, etc but still a much more classic wah tone. Sounds like you need a Dunlop 535Q or a Crybaby from hell...

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

My fav is still a modded Vox 847 or 848,but he mentioned other than this so I'm pretty much out of the game...:smack: :laugh2:

Most of the Dunlop stuff is pretty dismal....The Vox is a Dunlop though also..

I personally can't stand a Dunlop wah but then again I think that Kirk Hammet shoule be banned from ever usng a Wah pedal ever...sorry Chris but I hate Kirks wah tone!

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

...sorry Chris but I hate Kirks wah tone!

It's all good, I hate Vox wahs. I don't see the point of paying for something that is incredibly subtle. The first time I ever tried out a Vox wah, I thought somebody was turning the tone knob on the guitar up and down really fast

Here's another topic I can tweak you on......LOL.....But I won't do that to ya!

Umm... are you going to tell me that I do in fact want a Vox?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

This is great..... I start a thread asking for a sick sounding wah, and I get two guys talking about what I specifically said I didn't want.

:laugh2:

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

if your after that Hammet wah tone stay away from a Snarling Dogs...

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

I tried a Snarling Dogs Blues Brawls. I didn't like the sweep range . It seemed a Lil' short for me lacking that sweet middle spot (Ala Micheal Schenker)The O.D. in it wasn't half bad,But very difficult to engage or adjust on the fly. Overall not a bad pedal. I'm just a creature of habit and it was a departure from my good ole' GCB-95.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

if your after that Hammet wah tone stay away from a Snarling Dogs...

Damn... I was hoping they would be the answer.

I'm thinking about going back to the Digitech XP-100 Whammy Wah. Program #4 is a huge, fat sounding wah, almost exactly what I'm after.

 

[bungalowbill]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Try out an older model Morley if you are looking for the major puke factor. I don't know what they fetch used these days....maybe cheap.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Try out an older model Morley if you are looking for the major puke factor. I don't know what they fetch used these days....maybe cheap.

Any specific model?

 

[Antihero]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

I have a snarling dogs Mold spore that has the ring modulator also, and while the the ring mod is cool, im not impressed by the wahs. The sweep is very odd, nothing really happens til the very end of the sweep. Its also a somewhat.........blah sounding wah.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

I have a snarling dogs Mold spore that has the ring modulator also, and while the the ring mod is cool, im not impressed by the wahs. The sweep is very odd, nothing really happens til the very end of the sweep. Its also a somewhat.........blah sounding wah.

Thanks for the input!

Some dude told me awhile back that he'd plugged into a Snarling Dogs wah, and it was the hugest, fattest, sickest wah sound he'd ever heard.

From what you guys are saying, methinks he's full of sh1t.

 

[bungalowbill]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Any specific model?

Can't remember a model #. It was their standard model before they went with artist sig models.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Can't remember a model #. It was their standard model before they went with artist sig models.

Cool thanks. Looks like they can be had used for around $30-40.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

I just want to point out that Kirk uses a crybaby live. Also, wahs are the most mod-ible pedals for guitarists. Try some mods, a buffer and mess with other settings in the signal chain. I find that the wah is the pedal most influenced by other pedals, the guitar and amp settings. A delay is always the same, a wah is unpredictable on a new rig.

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Ibanez Weeping Demon. All the Wah you'll ever want or need.

 

[AmpliFIRE]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

The Dunlop Dimebag wah is pretty cool for the $$$ IMO.

 

[taphappy]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Pretty cool regardless of the money.

 

[Monty-Jay]

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I know folks say a lot about Kirk, especially his use of wah but I dig his wah tone

JB, specifically which live wah tone are you after? Because early 90s to 2003 was the EMB Audio rack wah, that's the huge fat wah tone that I like. Everything live after 2003 is the Dunlop 1SR rack wah. Sounds similar due to Kirk's technique, but it's definitely thinner/smaller sounding.

If you want something closer to the EMB tone, I would say the Tremonti or Bad Horsie would be the closest you are gonna get. Maybe the silvermachine wah, I haven't tried one though. I *DO* have an EMB rack wah like Kirk's and so far, I haven't really found anything that comes close to it. Other wahs simply have similar characteristics, they are fat sounding, stretchy, but they are improved characteristics of their respective maker (dunlop, vox, etc).

I am working on having it cloned and ALSO working on some other cool wah ideas

MJ

 

[Monty-Jay]

Re: Needin' a wah/Snarling Dogs

Here's a (crappy) clip of my EMB Audio wah: emb audio rack wah

MJ