‘Mids heavy’ wah recommendations please

the_jaffa · June 2020

Does the BMF was come with the extra boards or do you buy them separately? I can't seem to see anything on availability or pricing of them.

Caffeine_Vampire · June 2020

the_jaffa said:

Does the BMF was come with the extra boards or do you buy them separately? I can't seem to see anything on availability or pricing of them.

You just took the words out of my mouth. It looks as though you just custom order the board you want but it seems to be a waste if you can’t buy the others to switch to. Might email them.

Caffeine_Vampire · June 2020

Emailed them.

the_jaffa · June 2020

Caffeine_Vampire said:

Emailed them.

Cool, let me know. Only thing I have found was a reference on Joe's Pedals site about getting in touch about the other boards

https://joespedals.com/collections/pedals/products/wah

soma1975 · June 2020

Caffeine_Vampire said:

the_jaffa said:

Does the BMF was come with the extra boards or do you buy them separately? I can't seem to see anything on availability or pricing of them.

You just took the words out of my mouth. It looks as though you just custom order the board you want but it seems to be a waste if you can’t buy the others to switch to. Might email them.

You order them separately from Scott at BMF. All the wahs on sale from dealers are the stock Boomerang version - which is bloody great.

EDIT: Don't know if Joe is going to carry a stock of the boards but I got my wah from him.

Caffeine_Vampire · June 2020

Any word on a price for the other boards?

Caffeine_Vampire · June 2020

The Colorsound/Clappers board sounds great in demos.

soma1975 · June 2020

Just going back over my chats with Scott at BMF when I got my pedal the actual price didn't get mentioned. Doubt they are much though.

Caffeine_Vampire · June 2020

Hope not, be nice to have a few options. The stock board is very close to what I want though.

soma1975 · June 2020

Yep I bought mine with a view to getting the old vox board but fell in love with the stock version.

LastMantra · June 2020

TTBZ said:

The Petrucci and Cantrell signature Crybabies sound pretty good to me. I haven't actually played the Petrucci one but like how it sounds in demos, really throaty. The Cantrell one has a knob which adjusts how bright the toe down position gets, so you can lose the screechy top end.

I just don't understand why Dunlop choose not to put true or buffered bypass on all their wahs though. Their standard bypass kills your high end and sustain in my experience.

You can tweak the rack n pinion a notch or two on a basic crybaby to make it less screechy when toe fully down. Or vice versa.
I've mod'd mine a bit. Doesn't sound massively different but IMHO better.

darcym · June 2020

LastMantra said:

TTBZ said:

The Petrucci and Cantrell signature Crybabies sound pretty good to me. I haven't actually played the Petrucci one but like how it sounds in demos, really throaty. The Cantrell one has a knob which adjusts how bright the toe down position gets, so you can lose the screechy top end.

I just don't understand why Dunlop choose not to put true or buffered bypass on all their wahs though. Their standard bypass kills your high end and sustain in my experience.

You can tweak the rack n pinion a notch or two on a basic crybaby to make it less screechy when toe fully down. Or vice versa.
I've mod'd mine a bit. Doesn't sound massively different but IMHO better.

Cantrell out of the box is one of the more mid and deep heavy wahs, very much on the left hand side of the EQ than the right hand side which is the hammet wah

jeroenvanhulsteijn · June 2020

tekbow said:

See if you can get a clone of a boomerang wah.

They seem to have an extended mid range transition/hump or however wah pedals do it. So rather than that snap/whacka you get when bumping over it on CB/Vox style what's, you get a very vocal, expressive place to play.

I have a Joe Gagan Faux boomer. That one is modeled after the boomerang wah. Drop in kit will cost you around $90 USD i think (Ebay)

Gagan makes great wahs in all kind of flavors.

steven70 · June 2020

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Springywheel · June 2020

+ budda wah (I have the black label)

tekbow · June 2020

jeroenvanhulsteijn said:

tekbow said:

See if you can get a clone of a boomerang wah.

They seem to have an extended mid range transition/hump or however wah pedals do it. So rather than that snap/whacka you get when bumping over it on CB/Vox style what's, you get a very vocal, expressive place to play.

I have a Joe Gagan Faux boomer. That one is modeled after the boomerang wah. Drop in kit will cost you around $90 USD i think (Ebay)

Gagan makes great wahs in all kind of flavors.

It was Joe that got me into Boomers, he's an acquaintance of mine. He restored one Boomerang II for me and modded a second, those mods being an early version of what he offers in the kits.

It was him that relayed to me most of the info I detailed.

I'd highly recommend his kits or modded wahs

Classic · June 2020

The BMF wah is awesome. I currently use a Friedman wah but the BMF will be back in the stable soon

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