Wah-Wah

[gearJunkie]

I haven't used a Wah in my live rig since my Rocktron Rack Interface went tits up about 20 years ago. It included a remote Wah circuit that allowed me to keep my wireless in my rack and minimize the length of signal cable runs.

The Rack Interface™ Makes logical sense of your rack. Swiss army knife for integrating all of the elusive extra boxes and gadgets that end up strapped all over the inside of your rack. Evolved from years of technical support and backup for the professionals.

• Single rackspace unit
• Active or passive two-input/six-output splitters with thru's on front and back
• Wireless bypass
• Four stereo thru 1/4" stereo jacks
• Seven-pin MIDI thru
• Eight Channel unity-gain stereo mixer (which can work as dual four channel stereo mixers each with their own mix level)
• Direct XLR outputs with remote switchable speaker simulation [on or off]
• Ground lift and hot pin selection for XLR outs
• Footswitchable remote Wah effect
• VCA which eliminates running extended cables from frontstage to rack
• Stereo headphone amp that taps off the direct outs (and monitor input making it possible to run a separate studio monitor mix)
• CD input or tape deck input.

 

[James Freeman]

What's not to like with wahs?

That's great. Very tasteful and not overdoing it.

 

[TubeStack]

My fave is the EVH wah, however for more board space, I'm currently using the 535q mini, which is actually pretty great.

 

[metropolis_4]

I love wah! My favorite is just the standard Cry Baby. I’ve used it so much it just feels the most comfortable and natural to me.

I like to use wah to add a vocal sort of quality to lines, and I also love to use it like a phaser where I can manually control the sweep to fit the music. I also get lots of music that calls for the wakka-wakka funk thing.

I hate digital wah though, so I’d sort of stopped using it for a while. Planning to get back into it now

 

[HotRats]

My fave is the EVH wah, however for more board space, I'm currently using the 535q mini, which is actually pretty great.

Is the 535q switchless with spring return?

I like switchless with springs because I can throw some wah sweeps on the fly here and there.

 

[TubeStack]

Is the 535q switchless with spring return?

I like switchless with springs because I can throw some wah sweeps on the fly here and there.

No, it isn’t.

 

[HotRats]

No, it isn’t.

That's a shame

 

[Fishbulb]

Is the 535q switchless with spring return?

I like switchless with springs because I can throw some wah sweeps on the fly here and there.

The switchless one is the 95Q:

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It's got the Q control and volume boost like the 535Q does.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, I absolutely love my CryBaby 535Q (the big original), but it's gathering dust simply because I got spoiled by expression pedals on modelers. Started back with the GT-10 already, continued at some point with the Helix Floor and the internal one of the GT-1000 is pretty nice as well (the wahs aren't particularly great, though, but fine for live).
The reason being that I just absolutely love longer treadle travel, which most standard wahs don't deliver (had a Morley once, great travel range but I never liked the sound).
These days I use either a Hotone Soulpress II (which is what I used for the clip I posted) or the GT's EXP pedal. Thought about having the Hotone modified so it'd be switchable between Wah and EXP instead of Wah/Vol, but it's not good enough to spend the money and time. But I really wish someone would come up with something like that. Ideally it's gonna be Digitech and the thing should be switchable between Wah, Whammy and EXP (the reason for EXP being that I want my volume pedal to sit behind the amp).
Not gonna lie, this is one of the reasons for me to possibly purchase a HX Stadium one day. Their EXP pedals are nice and I like the wahs as well.

 

[DrewJD82]

Everytime this comes up, I like to challenge people to show me ONE photo of his live pedalboard from the past 15 or so years where he's actually using the Morley Bad Horsie wah. I own one and the travel on it is horrendous to say the least.

Yeah, he had one on his studio board, next to a Crybaby in a Rig Rundown from 12 years ago-



but I'm fairly certain the following rundown from whatever tour he went on after that studio vid was shot he had dropped the Morley and even noted something along the lines of "Sometimes you just want to use something different for a little while"

They were on his board from '99-'13-sh, the first time I ever saw one was at his show on the Ultra Zone. I also didn't get along with it, for a while I thought I went through two of them but the buddy I gave it to reminded me how it went down; first the optical part wasn't functioning right, I think the little flap that blocks it was messed up and that buddy fixed it. Then at a practice I the treadle somehow bent sideways and I was so pissed with the thing at that point I tossed it on the couch and told my buddy it was his. Dude is still rockin' it 26 years later.

Edit- yep, Story Of Light tour it was gone.

 

[saarangnarayan]

I'm fairly certain the following rundown from whatever tour he went on after that studio vid was shot he had dropped the Morley and even noted something along the lines of "Sometimes you just want to use something different for a little while"

IIRC, on the Where The Wild Things Are DVD, he is not using the Morley, even though on the potato-cam rig rundown that Guitar World did with him during rehearsals for that tour, he did have the Morley on the board. I'm guessing he had the Morley set up for the rundown because it was a "showcase" thing he was doing. I've not seen it on his boards at an actual gig for a very very long time!

EDIT: thanks for the Rebecca Dirks-era Rig Rundown nostalgia trip tho! I think this rundown is still the second-most viewed video on PG's channel? (EDIT2: just checked, it isn't anymore but it's definitely up there amongst the most viewed.)