Your favourite Wah

Moe_Zambeek

I really like my BMF with the stock board. I haven’t tried any other boards but would like to. 

I had a Castledine drop in kit that was pretty good too, really should have kept it but it overlapped the BMF really and I only needed one. 

Had a couple of Roger Mayer Vision Wahs, preferred the version with the external switches but could never get it ‘just right’, thought the version with the voicing on pots would be better but it wasn’t. They’re now ridiculously expensive new.

CaseOfAce

Once saw a music store that had 7 or 8 of the things on a board to try which I've not seen since anywhere else.

Personally I've had 3 or 4 and currently have a Bonamassa and a mini-wah thru random choice.

I've just tried a blind test of the 3 internal DIP switches on my dunlop mini-wah. I preferred the middle setting.
Which is Vintage (as opposed to the modern and Hendrix settings) - so I guess my favourite is a traditional mid range throaty wah with not too wide a sweep.

Mr_Claw

Wilson 12-position vintage spec is the best sounding one I've played (and the one that stayed). Can be a bit noisy (but if you wanted quiet why would you use a wah?).

That said, the mechanism on mine needs a fix at the moment...

Roland

Hootsmon said:

Thoughts Cry baby mini wah?

OK if you only want to switch between full on and full off. Difficult to access in between sounds, or do slow sweeps. Personally I prefer to be able to adjust the Wah to the notes I’m playing.

mo6020

Fulltone Clyde, has a dip switch inside it to change the aggressiveness of the sweep, and sounds really retro.

I've not tried a million other ones, just the ubiquitous Crybaby and an Ibanez Weeping Demon.

Hootsmon

Roland said:

Hootsmon said:

Thoughts Cry baby mini wah?

OK if you only want to switch between full on and full off. Difficult to access in between sounds, or do slow sweeps. Personally I prefer to be able to adjust the Wah to the notes I’m playing.

Not quite sure what you be sayin' Roley?

@roland

bertie

Love my EB,  wide sweep range and built like the proverbial out house

Roland

Hootsmon said:

Roland said:

Hootsmon said:

Thoughts Cry baby mini wah?

OK if you only want to switch between full on and full off. Difficult to access in between sounds, or do slow sweeps. Personally I prefer to be able to adjust the Wah to the notes I’m playing.

Not quite sure what you be sayin' Roley?

@roland

1. Small physical movement to go from fully open to fully closed bass. Consequently it’s difficult to find any middle positions, for example  Michael Schenker tones or Money for Nothing.
2. Not my choice because I like to use intermediate positions, moving smoothly between them.

TimmyO

Roland said:

Hootsmon said:

Roland said:

Hootsmon said:

Thoughts Cry baby mini wah?

OK if you only want to switch between full on and full off. Difficult to access in between sounds, or do slow sweeps. Personally I prefer to be able to adjust the Wah to the notes I’m playing.

Not quite sure what you be sayin' Roley?

@roland

1. Small physical movement to go from fully open to fully closed bass. Consequently it’s difficult to find any middle positions, for example  Michael Schenker tones or Money for Nothing.
2. Not my choice because I like to use intermediate positions, moving smoothly between them.

I think it’s actually the other way around - the mini has to tilt to a higher angle to get full travel on the pot with a hinge that’s closer

TimmyO

TimmyO said:

Roland said:

Hootsmon said:

Roland said:

Hootsmon said:

Thoughts Cry baby mini wah?

OK if you only want to switch between full on and full off. Difficult to access in between sounds, or do slow sweeps. Personally I prefer to be able to adjust the Wah to the notes I’m playing.

Not quite sure what you be sayin' Roley?

@roland

1. Small physical movement to go from fully open to fully closed bass. Consequently it’s difficult to find any middle positions, for example  Michael Schenker tones or Money for Nothing.
2. Not my choice because I like to use intermediate positions, moving smoothly between them.

I think it’s actually the other way around - the mini has to tilt to a higher angle to get full travel on the pot with a hinge that’s closer

…but it does feel harder to control if you don’t get used to putting your foot in the right place relative to the hinge 

hotpickups

The only two I’ve loved is the Xotic Wah mainly due to its size and controls. Too much for me though. Sold that and went with the CAE wah which is great. I don’t use it much though in my current band  

DrJazzTap

I've not tried hundreds of wahs. Only crybaby, weeping demon and my old trusty usa vox 847. I put a Castledine pot in it years ago. It was also a gift from my dad when I was obsessed with hendrix at 14 years old.
It's the only effects pedal I haven't sold. I have retired it though as its too sentimental.

I wanted to love the weeping demon and it gets pretty damn close, again I'm vain and found the nu metal graphics a bit much. I've had two of them and still end up selling them. 
Have to admit one the best wahs I've tried is my friends vox satriani wah. Big bad wah I think.

soma1975

The Xotic is a really good all-rounder. Quiet too.

Current crush is an RMC 10 which does everything I want perfectly. 

Love the BMF wah but had 2 and pots got a bit scratchy pretty quickly, although my house is dusty as anything. 

Lebarque

Another vote for the Xotic. I've tried many. The only one I fancy trying is the Jam Wahko.

longi

Ibanez Weeping Demon for me. Love the sound and it adjustability. It is large, but I love the bear trap look about it. It also very well built.

TimmyO

Having just sold a few pedals I got a used Xotic Wah - always been interested in them. 

As expected it’s REALLY flexible and the range of control of the various parameters on the external trim knobs is sensible (except the bias control that seems to make things far less expressive as it goes above mid way) 

At first I was surprised how ‘hot’ it was - boosting and clipping a fair bit when engaged - in a pleasing way but made playing truly clean funky stuff nigh on impossible - whipped the bottom off and saw that the previous owner had the DIP switch  engaged for input gain and that trimmer up pretty high - reverted it to default setting and that fixed that. He’d also set it to reduce the top end range so I put that back to default and preferred that too.

It’s really good - sensibly flexible, a nice size.

But is it MASSIVELY better than the sound of the Crybaby mini (particularly on its internal switch middle setting) ? Nope. 

I don’t know if the circuit of the Crybaby mini (ie true bypass, 3 way switch that progressively shifts the effect down a bit in frequency) is available in one of their full size models (it probably is) but that would probably be the ideal good value used buy (for me) 

57Deluxe

...just because it flies in the face of other Wahs - my 51 year old and still going KAY Wah-1 = good use of £7.50 of my then pocket money...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaS8uzvFckc

KrisGee

Joe Boner-massive signature wah. 

Pros: very sweet and quite dark. No spiky top end. 

Cons: short travel takes a lot of getting used to.