wah question...an old question i'm sure

[airplanehuh]

ok,  i know that its common for people to put their wahwah's first in an effects chain but for some reason when ever i put my 95-910511 crybaby before any distortion or fuzz i get very little wahing action - its either low or high toned and almost nothing inbetween but its only like that with the fuzz effect on. is this an impedance issue? i've yet to build a buffer to try that, should i? also i've tried a bunch of different mods on my wah and always end up bringing it back relatively to stock form, but i'm trying to figure out how sqaush the was range up a bit so that both ends are well within usable ranges, right now my wah goes a little too low so that you can't really hear it much when the pedal is back all the way and a little to high so its overly shrill with the wah all the way forward. any suggestions? should i increase the Q-resister?

thanks,
carson

[triskadecaepyon]

You need an output buffer either in the wah or before the fuzz.

[airplanehuh]

it shouldn't make a difference if i were buffering the output of the wah or the input of the fuzz or distortion, should it? do you know of a site with a good schematic of a buffer circuit? is buffering the input and output of the wah better, or any different if it were true bypass or not?

thanks again

[rubberlips]

it shouldn't make a difference if i were buffering the output of the wah or the input of the fuzz or distortion, should it?

No it doesn't, buut you'd probably want to include it in the wah output, that way it doesn't matter what you connect after it,.

do you know of a site with a good schematic of a buffer circuit? is buffering the input and output of the wah better, or any different if it were true bypass or not?  

true bypassing in this case doesn't sound like it's affecting your fuzz because you're having the probloem while the wah's on - not when it's off (although you may still have this problem). I just added a DPDT switch to the wah so it doesn't load the next effect when it's off.

Buffering the input and may help by not loading your guitar down so much, but it depends on what's loading what down...is your guitar loading the wah down, or is the wah loading the fuzz down.

Try a buffer on the output of the wah - there's plenty of circuits out there on commercial effects - like tube screamers etc. Check out arons schematics page and look at a few of the outputs from the pedals, some use trannies, others have FETs.

hope that helps

Pete

[KORGULL]

Here's a nice article on buffers: //www.muzique.com/lab/buffers.htm
and one on wah mods:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.castledine/greenfuz/wah.html