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Re: How does a Wah, "wah"???

11/10/1997 10:39 AM
Y.	Re: How does a Wah, "wah"??? >Re the new fasels - I have not heard them. I >do know that the core material used in wah >inductors is critical. The old "great >sounding" fasels used a cheap material that >actually became slightly magnetized, something >that linear inductor cores are NOT supposed to >do. This caused a magnetic offset that let the >inductor itself to saturate asymetrically. Is that the new Fulltone "Clyde" inductor? >By the way, if you want a great wah, contact >Geoffrey Teese. He has pursued the insides of >these things to a mania, and can turn out >essentially any wah sound you like. The Real >McCoy is expensive, but can be adjusted to >have about any wah sound you like. He also >sells drop in mods for Vox Reissues to turn >the Vox into a killer wah. I don't have any >financial interest in Teese's business, he >just makes a great wah. There is a phone >number on my web page for him. I love my Real McCoy Custom. Set to the "Early E.C." settings it nailed the White Room wah tone there is no way I'm ever going back to Dunlop. Ben, that old non-AC Dunlop Crybaby actually has the same board pinout as the Vox reissues, and will take the Teese drop-in board (only mthe older non-AC adaptor Dunlop models will, mind you) with no additional mods. BTW, I have some of those brown inductors from early Dunlop Crybabys that Ben was asking about, I also want to know what they are (my early Dunlop Crybaby also had a great tone until the pot died, after that, no replacement pot gave me the same harmonics, can't explain that). -Y. (wyatt poist)

11/10/1997 10:39 AM

Re: How does a Wah, "wah"???

>Re the new fasels - I have not heard them. I
>do know that the core material used in wah
>inductors is critical. The old "great
>sounding" fasels used a cheap material that
>actually became slightly magnetized, something
>that linear inductor cores are NOT supposed to
>do. This caused a magnetic offset that let the
>inductor itself to saturate asymetrically.

Is that the new Fulltone "Clyde" inductor?

>By the way, if you want a great wah, contact
>Geoffrey Teese. He has pursued the insides of
>these things to a mania, and can turn out
>essentially any wah sound you like. The Real
>McCoy is expensive, but can be adjusted to
>have about any wah sound you like. He also
>sells drop in mods for Vox Reissues to turn
>the Vox into a killer wah. I don't have any
>financial interest in Teese's business, he
>just makes a great wah. There is a phone
>number on my web page for him.

I love my Real McCoy Custom. Set to the "Early E.C." settings it nailed the White Room wah tone there is no way I'm ever going back to Dunlop. Ben, that old non-AC Dunlop Crybaby actually has the same board pinout as the Vox reissues, and will take the Teese drop-in board (only mthe older non-AC adaptor Dunlop models will, mind you) with no additional mods. BTW, I have some of those brown inductors from early Dunlop Crybabys that Ben was asking about, I also want to know what they are (my early Dunlop Crybaby also had a great tone until the pot died, after that, no replacement pot gave me the same harmonics, can't explain that).

-Y.
(wyatt poist)

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R.G. >>Is that the new Fulltone "Clyde" ... -- 11/10/1997 4:00 PM