Skullkrusher
The T-Files-ologist
What kind of wah pedal do you guys use? I was thinking of buying a Morley wah pedal......not sure yet though.
Which wah for you?
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RW James
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Re: Which wah for you?
I went through the same search - I was also considering a Morley. At the time I was playing a Cry Baby. A Weeping Demon was highly recommended here - so I went for it. I love it.
(I lost my first Demon in a fire, and I bought another one, I like it so much.)
I went through the same search - I was also considering a Morley. At the time I was playing a Cry Baby. A Weeping Demon was highly recommended here - so I went for it. I love it.
(I lost my first Demon in a fire, and I bought another one, I like it so much.)
fingerace
New member
Re: Which wah for you?
I went for the BYOC wah. It has some 3-4 pots you can play with, plus change component values etc. It's a nice sounding classic wah, nothing too extreme...
People say the Clyde McCoy wah is a wonderful wah, but it's expensive. Gearjoneser owns one I think.
I went for the BYOC wah. It has some 3-4 pots you can play with, plus change component values etc. It's a nice sounding classic wah, nothing too extreme...
People say the Clyde McCoy wah is a wonderful wah, but it's expensive. Gearjoneser owns one I think.
Skullkrusher
The T-Files-ologist
Re: Which wah for you?
The Morley "Tremonti" wah has no on-off switch. Kinda cool........sounds pretty nice as well.
The Morley "Tremonti" wah has no on-off switch. Kinda cool........sounds pretty nice as well.
XSSIVE
OCDologist
Re: Which wah for you?
this should be in the amp/pedal room but anyway...
i've got 3 wahs on my board now...morley lynch (for the WOW mode), morley tremonti and and area 51 and they are all vastly different animals. if you want a classic wah tone the one that everyone has in their head, that funky type of tone then go with something like an area 51 or a teese picture wah. if you want a more modern tone for high gain playing and more of a lead accent rather than the funk type sound go with a morley. the tremonti comes close to being able to do the funky stuff but it's not quite right. you could get by with it but once you hear a more classic wah like the area 51 side by side with you you really see how different it is. that said though i love the switchless design of the morleys it makes them much more fun to use over a typical wah since you can just throw a quick wah blast into the middle of a line and not have to worry about turning the wah on and off with the switch. it all depends on what type of wah tone you want and how you use a wah. if you like to leave it on and set in one place a vintage wah will do that but a morely won't without holding your foot there the whole time. if you want a quick blast of wah at random here and there a morely switchless will do that but a classic switched wah can't do it well since you have to turn it on and off via the switch and it's not instant.
if you said i had to only have one of my 3 wahs i'd go with the tremonti or the lynch even though i like the tone of the 51 better....why??? switchless wins out every time with the way i use a wah. if my area 51 was switchless it would be the perfect wah for me. it has the tone i want, the others have the function...thus why i have all of them.
so think about that when it comes to wah choice.
also, dunlop has a switchles...95Q i think is the model....but i never tried it, it may be closer to a vintage tone and switchless for all i know. i've got to get my hands on one and see if it is.
-Mike
this should be in the amp/pedal room but anyway...
i've got 3 wahs on my board now...morley lynch (for the WOW mode), morley tremonti and and area 51 and they are all vastly different animals. if you want a classic wah tone the one that everyone has in their head, that funky type of tone then go with something like an area 51 or a teese picture wah. if you want a more modern tone for high gain playing and more of a lead accent rather than the funk type sound go with a morley. the tremonti comes close to being able to do the funky stuff but it's not quite right. you could get by with it but once you hear a more classic wah like the area 51 side by side with you you really see how different it is. that said though i love the switchless design of the morleys it makes them much more fun to use over a typical wah since you can just throw a quick wah blast into the middle of a line and not have to worry about turning the wah on and off with the switch. it all depends on what type of wah tone you want and how you use a wah. if you like to leave it on and set in one place a vintage wah will do that but a morely won't without holding your foot there the whole time. if you want a quick blast of wah at random here and there a morely switchless will do that but a classic switched wah can't do it well since you have to turn it on and off via the switch and it's not instant.
if you said i had to only have one of my 3 wahs i'd go with the tremonti or the lynch even though i like the tone of the 51 better....why??? switchless wins out every time with the way i use a wah. if my area 51 was switchless it would be the perfect wah for me. it has the tone i want, the others have the function...thus why i have all of them.
so think about that when it comes to wah choice.
also, dunlop has a switchles...95Q i think is the model....but i never tried it, it may be closer to a vintage tone and switchless for all i know. i've got to get my hands on one and see if it is.
-Mike
guitarded
New member
Re: Which wah for you?
I use this one also. I also have a bad horsie, but I like this one better as the boost really cuts through with dirty tones. For clean tones, the bad horsie is better though.
I use this one also. I also have a bad horsie, but I like this one better as the boost really cuts through with dirty tones. For clean tones, the bad horsie is better though.
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
Unseen
Re: Which wah for you?
Got an old JEN wah....not that I use it much...but it has the sound I like!
Got an old JEN wah....not that I use it much...but it has the sound I like!
McLaughysSN
New member
Re: Which wah for you?
Some of the best I've ever played through are the snarling dog wah's. They have a ton of options for whatever your looking for and are affordable. I just haven't actually bought one because it doesn't fit my style much, but I'd to have one around for messing around.
Some of the best I've ever played through are the snarling dog wah's. They have a ton of options for whatever your looking for and are affordable. I just haven't actually bought one because it doesn't fit my style much, but I'd to have one around for messing around.
sosomething
Seymour Duncan Customer Support
Re: Which wah for you?
I had a Morley Wah for a while.
Functionality was cool, to a point. Because the Wah does not actually know when your foot comes off of it, it switches off after about 1 second in fully-back position. While this might be functional for some, I found it a pain in the ass. For one, you can't kick it back and play for any length of time because it thinks you've stopped using it and turns off. Second, when you DO want it to turn off, you've got to wait that 1 second before it recognizes you've stopped using it, meaning it never really cuts out when you want it to.
The tone? Hated it. I even tried the stupid thing in the loop to see if it sounded better (which of course it did not) but I found it extremely nasally with no body and a the decent sweep it has with clean tones narrowed out like crazy with any amount of OD.
Sold it and have not regretted it.
M2C, YMMV, etc.
I had a Morley Wah for a while.
Functionality was cool, to a point. Because the Wah does not actually know when your foot comes off of it, it switches off after about 1 second in fully-back position. While this might be functional for some, I found it a pain in the ass. For one, you can't kick it back and play for any length of time because it thinks you've stopped using it and turns off. Second, when you DO want it to turn off, you've got to wait that 1 second before it recognizes you've stopped using it, meaning it never really cuts out when you want it to.
The tone? Hated it. I even tried the stupid thing in the loop to see if it sounded better (which of course it did not) but I found it extremely nasally with no body and a the decent sweep it has with clean tones narrowed out like crazy with any amount of OD.
Sold it and have not regretted it.
M2C, YMMV, etc.
XSSIVE
OCDologist
Re: Which wah for you?
just so you know...there is a setting for the off delay from instant to 3 seconds which is mentioned in the manual. just turn the trim pot in the pedal and you can set it to shut of as soon as you take your foot off (how i have mine set ) or have a delay.
the reason it has the delay is if you're rocking the pedal from full up to full down for a song if you have it set for instant off it shuts on and off every time you rock full up on the pedal. so they set it with a short delay from the factory so that it's on at all times during full sweeps of the pedal and isn't turning on and off the whole time. so there's a logic to that off delay. which again you have control over.
don't be quick to bash what you don't know about please, it spreads false information and confuses people.
as for the tone, that's subjective to every player of course and you can adjust that...just like any wah...but it requires mods.
-Mike
just so you know...there is a setting for the off delay from instant to 3 seconds which is mentioned in the manual. just turn the trim pot in the pedal and you can set it to shut of as soon as you take your foot off (how i have mine set ) or have a delay.
the reason it has the delay is if you're rocking the pedal from full up to full down for a song if you have it set for instant off it shuts on and off every time you rock full up on the pedal. so they set it with a short delay from the factory so that it's on at all times during full sweeps of the pedal and isn't turning on and off the whole time. so there's a logic to that off delay. which again you have control over.
don't be quick to bash what you don't know about please, it spreads false information and confuses people.
as for the tone, that's subjective to every player of course and you can adjust that...just like any wah...but it requires mods.
-Mike
MikeS
Bengalsologist
Re: Which wah for you?
I use, although not all that regularly, a Dunlop Original Crybaby and a Morley Bad Horsie II, both unmodded. Tonally I tend to prefer the sweep and tone of the Crybaby over the Bad Horsie II, even though the BH has an adjustable level and frequency, I just cannot seem to get it dialed in quite to where I would like it. What I love about it is the operation. Step on and go... no worries about whether it's really on or off, no worries about the switch being somewhere in between like the crybaby has done a couple times. Where the BH2 comes in handy tonally is with clean tones... I can adjust the level so that clean wah tones in the open position do not shatter glass, something the crybaby is quite good at.
Ultimately I'd like to set up a board with two loops, and a wah in each loop. Then I might not only use them both, but use a wah more often.
I use, although not all that regularly, a Dunlop Original Crybaby and a Morley Bad Horsie II, both unmodded. Tonally I tend to prefer the sweep and tone of the Crybaby over the Bad Horsie II, even though the BH has an adjustable level and frequency, I just cannot seem to get it dialed in quite to where I would like it. What I love about it is the operation. Step on and go... no worries about whether it's really on or off, no worries about the switch being somewhere in between like the crybaby has done a couple times. Where the BH2 comes in handy tonally is with clean tones... I can adjust the level so that clean wah tones in the open position do not shatter glass, something the crybaby is quite good at.
Ultimately I'd like to set up a board with two loops, and a wah in each loop. Then I might not only use them both, but use a wah more often.
ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
Re: Which wah for you?
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Re: Which wah for you?
I'm starting to only like wahs that have a lot of options to the sound......but are still traditional sounding. Some may only want the "Jimi sound" but once you see that different wah tones are good for different things, you'll always want that versatility.
Just go for something like Teese RMC-3 or Fulltone Clyde Deluxe. More money, but the search is ended.
I'm starting to only like wahs that have a lot of options to the sound......but are still traditional sounding. Some may only want the "Jimi sound" but once you see that different wah tones are good for different things, you'll always want that versatility.
Just go for something like Teese RMC-3 or Fulltone Clyde Deluxe. More money, but the search is ended.
Re: Which wah for you?
Teese RMC-3 best wah pedal out there if you ask me.
You can basically tweak it to sound like any other wah on the market, past or present
Top it off with a built in FoxRox buffer, true bypass switching, 9v input, Geoffrey's excellent support and a cool blue housing and I don't think you can do any better in terms of features or sound quality
Teese RMC-3 best wah pedal out there if you ask me.
You can basically tweak it to sound like any other wah on the market, past or present
Top it off with a built in FoxRox buffer, true bypass switching, 9v input, Geoffrey's excellent support and a cool blue housing and I don't think you can do any better in terms of features or sound quality
ErikH
Well-known member
Re: Which wah for you?
I'm still using a 1991 Dunlop Crybaby. It's modded for true bypass, has an Area 51 inductor and a new pot from them as well. I've done a few other mods to it too. It sounds great for me and since I don't use a wah very much anyway, I don't need to spend a lot on one.
I'm still using a 1991 Dunlop Crybaby. It's modded for true bypass, has an Area 51 inductor and a new pot from them as well. I've done a few other mods to it too. It sounds great for me and since I don't use a wah very much anyway, I don't need to spend a lot on one.
martin6string
New member
Re: Which wah for you?
Teese Wizard Wah
Teese Wizard Wah
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