Re: The Joe Bonamassa Signature Cry Baby Wah thread!
I wish XSSIVE would show up.....
wish granted.
I've been reading along since this thread started actually.
Let me just clear up some stuff non Bonamassa related.
GCB-95, Cantrell, Wylde, JH-1 all share the exact same circuit board with slight component changes to them. The EVH and Bonamassa are quite similar yet use different circuit boards and some very different parts making them whole different animals. The JH-1 and Wylde are the same aside from the housing they're in. They're GCB-95s with red fasesl and .022uf sweep caps making them darker (boomy on the bottom with some amps and guitars). The Cantrell is the same as a GCB-95 but with an added knob that lets you roll off high end i the toe down position and the sweep cap (which controls how dark or bright a wah is) is a .012uf making it just a hair darker than a GCB-95 but no where near as dark as the sometimes too dark Wylde and JH-1. The EVH wah also shares the same .012uf sweep cap as the Cantrell yet it uses a different inductor and pot which makes the sweep much different (more mid focused) and much smoother (low friction pot). It also activates real easily thanks to shorter rubber stoppers on the rocker allowing it to contact the switch with next to no effort making turning it on and off nearly as quick as a switchless wah (95Q). It's circuit board is also different from a GCB-95 yet quite similar. As for the others...I've had nearly all of them and could go on and on comparing them. The Bonamassa I'm yet to own though. Need to buy one of them at some point, only tried it out real quick.
One thing about wahs, they're very much like guitars....no two are the same even if they're the same model. Component value drift will alter a wahs voice way more than it does any other pedal. I've had a ton of GCB-95s and some sound quite different from others. Perhaps due to the pot value, or cap values, resistor values, inductor winds, where the pot sweep and gears are aligned within the pots sweep etc etc. If you play one on one day and a different one the next you may miss the subtle difference. Yet if you have a few of them hooked up and go back and forth between them you'll hear it for sure. Also certain wahs work with certain amps better and for certain types of music. Like my EVH wah...didn't like it with my 3120 or for cleans. Love it with my 5150III 50w (go figure haha) and my '79 JMP. The KH wah works great with my 5150III and 3120 but sucks with my JMP. Cantrell works great with my JMP yet not with the 3120 etc etc. There's no one size fits all wah really. There's just one that fits your rig, your playing style and all those small details. Thus why I just have a bunch of them
papersoul if you want more tweakability Dunlop will modify a DB-01 Dime wah or 535Q wah to be switchless like a 95Q for a fee (I think it's around $55 but don't quote me on that, e-mail them and ask). If you own the wah already and e-mail them they'll give you the info on sending it in to have it modded to a switchless version of itself.
When I had the Fulltone, my Dunlop Classic which was cheap, easily beat out the Fulltone to my ears. 
