Looking for world's simplest wah-wah schematics.

[andrewnitch]

I am still a beginner and though I've tried two projects, i failed both. Does anyone have the schematics for anything that sounds anything remotely close to a wah-wah that I could try that might be somewhere in my league?

[jonathan perez]

uh...did you post this twice?

[andrewnitch]

yep...its on another part of the site but it wasn't getting any traffic when I last checked on it.

[Jack Collins]

As far as wah wah goes, I don't think there is anything simpler than a crybaby, at least not
if you want a decent sound.  Wah wahs are not very easy to build.  Not electronically
but mechanically.  If you just want to do it as an excercise, I'd recommend buying a
cheap used dunlop for the shell and pot and build the circuit board yourself.

Do a google search for crybaby schematic.  I'm sure Aron has it on his site too.

What projects have you tried and failed at?

[andrewnitch]

One of them was the beginner project on this page.  I can't remember where I got the schematics for the second one.

[jonathan perez]

how did you fail? why did you decide to give up?

could be some simple transistor problem, could be a misplaced resistor.

[QSQCaito]

Correcting your mistakes might be an excellent way of learning, I believe is non-sense to give up. And if you give up with one project, re-do it, that same one and comprae

bye bye

DAC

[Seljer]

go look up the "Twin-T Style wah" in the "The Techonology of Wah Pedals" on http://www.geofex.com, probably a bit easier than the classic Crybaby/Vox style ones, however, the sound is not the same.

Morley also have a bunch of pedals with that setup (they have schematics on their website), but with an opamp based setup instead of transitors.

[Paul Marossy]

ColorSound inductorless wah. IMO, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

[swt]

go to circuit snippets. there are a lot of wahs in there, really simple, like the idiot wah, and others, that use ldrs, and you can try without the mechanical aspect of general whas.