Easiest Cheapest Wah Pedal Tone Mod Ever
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Customize your Wah Pedal Tone in minutes for free!
So easy anyone can do it.
All you need is a 1/2 inch spanner and five minutes to find that tone you thought your wah pedal never had.
This mod involves adjusting the sweep area of the potentiometer that connects to the rocker.
By adjusting the pot you can alter where your high and low cutoff points are in the sweep of the effect. This has the effect of making your wah pedal sound brighter or darker depending on the setting.
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It's a great way to fix the sweep range to your liking. My personal preference is to leave the pot where it is and instead loosen the support that holds the pedal actuator onto the pot gear to decouple the rack and pinion system. Then turn the pot a couple notches, re-couple it to the actuator and tighten the support back up.
7 years ago and finally made it to my feed.. thanks for sharing this video.. it was very helpful and educational in making adjustments.. it made a big improvement in the pedal.. especially for myself.. since im a newbie at making adjustments to these type of pedals..
Now that is awesome!! I never knew this info till now thank you a ton!!!Going to make my adjustment now and make the pedal a touch darker.Cheers!
+Vinny Rogers Cool. Hope you get it sounding perfect.
Its sounding great now!!
This is awesome, i hated the blasting agresive treble that my wah made. Good video bro
Only problem with this is that effectively you’re narrowing down the range. With the pot in this video the range of the treadle is already using 100% of the potentiometer range. Yes adjusting the pot gives you less high frequencies, but the bottom does not change at all. What happens is that you only widen the dead spot in the heel down position where nothing happens. One option is to shift the whole range down using higher value sweep cap.
Fantastic mate, you learn something new everyday :)
Thanks so much! I just inherited a crybaby wah from my FIL and it sounds like shit (he doesn't know how to take care of stuff) and it was sounding overly bright and harsh. Now I can't wait to do this and get a nice darker wah
Did it work?
@@Tohfool turns out the wah I inherited was a Morley. It doesn't use a potentiometer. It uses an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor). Didn't matter much because you could still adjust it by bending the LED inside it.
Thanks Paul for the great demo, I also like the darker range. I am going to try this mod over the weekend as I am going to start using this 847 again. Is there any advice to make the shaft move more smoothly ? Mine seems to be a bit dry when open and closing the wah, vaseline perhaps ? Thx
Thank you so much for telling me with this video that I don't have to buy a cry baby and can keep my v847!
Can’t wait to try this. Been my complaint the whole time.
Thanks Mate
Does this adjustment accomplish the same thing as changing the position of the pot gear against the 'toothed' rack which rotates the pot gear?
Yes it does. It does allow finer adjustment though over jumping a tooth.
***** OIC. This allows you to look for the tones between one tooth and the next each way? Do you know how many degrees there are in one tooth?
It looks like you're jumping more than one tooth by moving that - in comparison.
I don't like twisting around solder points.
Awesome information mate. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Take care.
This is really helpful, an easy mob for everyone. Thanks Paul.
Thanks a lot. Gonna try this to my V845. Think like I would prefer it to be a bit darker (less treble, more mids). Any other recommendations you have about wah mod possibilities, please?
klon 999 I've moved it up or down can't really do it front or back because the circuit board on top of potentiometer
why would you not just adjust the rack, by undoing the rack and moving the gear???
good evening I need the electronic diagram of the wah wah pedal v847 thank you
Today is SEPT 28, 2019...i just got my VOX WAH last night.....then i heard that the output is too bright/loud.....then i saw this tip......later i will try ajustment. ....let see if its work (VOX V847).....thanks for this video
And, did it work?
@@Jecho3 my VOX is not same with the demo.... but i did try turning the pots....but...i did not try stepin on it...coz ..i notice something on the PCB ...If i put back the cover...it touches the back cover ..im worried it might spoil the PCB....mine is VOX V847...witch is difrent on this demo..maybe yours is same on this demo...
wouldent an eq pedal take away the treble? or a wah pedal that has a knob on it
Pure genius!!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for posting this awesome info!
how about replacing a capacitor? mine died and im going to replace it with a tropical fish cap
could help me with the diagram modified to "true bypass" a cry baby pedal 535. thanks
Is there a fair amount of room to turn it forward (brighter) as well as back?
- It wasn't near the end of the pot travel?
I don't know the exact amount but it does have a considerable effect.
Just remember to test the travel by hand and ensure you haven't run the pot into its internal stopper before the the pedal runs out of travel otherwise the pot may be damaged.
Paul Graham Thanks!
There is a peak in the response at the heel down, bass position.
With hot pickups you can get distortion, which some folks like, but I don't care for the way it transitions in and out of clipping as I rock the pedal. So, the plan is to move the pot forward (brighter,) then change the "sweep" cap to make it darker.
I already changed several resistors to bias the transistors, nearer to half voltage. And lowered the overall gain some, but I've kinda reached the limit of that.
Thanks for the video!
Hello.. I have a vox 847.. Its very hard to engage and disengage the toggle switch. Do u have any idea to fix it.
There are three ways you can do to make the switch easier to use.
The first it to glue or use double sided tape to attach something thin to the top of the switch to allow it to be pressed easier by the pedal.
Trail and error with thickness of material will get you the right thickness material.
The second is to remove or shorten the rubber stoppers under the rocker pedal. I suggest shortening if you go down this route.
Mine have fallen off due to wear and tear and the switch is really easy to use and takes some getting used to because you can bypass your wah when you are using it.
The third is to adjust the switch a little higher providing you have the adjustment to do so.
all the best.
@@PaulGrahamGuitarst tq very much for your kind help.. I removed the rubber stoppers. It works perfectly fine
Where are you from? You have a super cool accent! :-) Thanks for the tip. Very useful for my colorsound. The tecnician left it too damp, too low, bassy a tone. Now is back to funk!
My guess is Melbourne (or somewhere in the State of Victoria) Australia.
Good idea dude
Thanks. Just doing what I can to help others.
My bud wah had true bypass as well as input buffer why is that? Is it beneficial and easy to remove the input buffer?
A buffer may well be beneficial if the Wah is the first in the chain but it may also alter the tone and feel of the effect. It is entirely a personal thing.
The buffer may help it play nice with other pedals like a fuzz.
Doing it the hard way. Just adjust the gear post. 1 screw
Thanks for letting me know, that's the right way. The Wah has a built in way to adjust the tone. Simply loosen the screw on the white plastic loop that holds the black toothed arm against the potentiometer gear. Turn the white piece to the side, pull the black arm back, turn the gear by hand to the desired tone, and reassembly.
this dude kinda sounds like the guy from Mary Poppins
A teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down?
this trick renders the switch under the new mini cry baby pretty useless
+Andrew Deleruyelle Really! I guess the only advantage of a switch is the ease of use.
All you did is move to the motion as if you're hitting the pedal man . Think about and nobody else could realise that. By rotating the pot that's what happens. This is stupidity mate