I need a "vocal" mod for my Bad Horsie

[StratScreamer]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make the bad Horsie more vocal sounding, and maybe increased sweep?

[Ansil]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make the bad Horsie more vocal sounding, and maybe increased sweep?

yep,   loose the whole ldr thing. for one.  and basically build it into a regular box, tahts what i did so i have a standard looking crybaby but i have a kicking bad horsie.   of course you can always change a few components in there to change it back to the clyde mccoy circuit.   the schematic i believe is at fuzz central.

personally the first thing i do is


c5 to a .1uf brings up bass in bypass mode to keep you from loosing your bottom end.

r12 to 56k give the wah some balls

c9  put a switch in there to give you either the .01 a .022  or a .0047

if you do all the other mods you dont' really need this one on the c9.


c14 c15 and c 16 .22uf  see the problem with teh bad horsie is the c14 capacitor it goes into a .01 after using the .22uf no no no no no..  bad  morley.  just replacing this made my buddys pedal sound natural and not "morley"

replace r24 with a 50k resistor and a 100k pot in series.  to help with the sweep.

r15 replace with a 100k pot.  or you can just add in a 50k pot with the resistor inseries.  this will determine the contour of the wah. basically the last two mods i listed here are what the bad horsie II is..

hope that helps.  if you need any more help drop me an email at  

 austenfantanio@yahoo.com

[StratScreamer]

Thanks Ansil! Just for starters (I don't have time to do more) I added a 10K across R12 just to see what the difference would be. Man it freakin' screamed!

I'm going to work on the other mods this weekend, but that one helped alot.

[Ansil]

not a problem glad i could help