When I turn on my BYOC Fuzz I lose most of the Wah signal

Started by GuitarPlayer, May 21, 2009, 03:43:20 PM

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GuitarPlayer

My BYOC ESV Fuzz and my Budda BudWah sound great, but not together. When they are both on, the tone variation created by rocking the Wah pedal back and forth is all but lost. This doesn't happen with the Wah and any of my other distortion or overdrive pedals.

Anyone know why?

My signal chain is like this: guitar > Wah > tuner(full bypass) > Fuzz     all other effects being off.

Thanks in advance for opinions and suggestions.
Jake

p.s. I just finished assembling this home made board with four homebuilt pedals  :icon_biggrin:



Mark Hammer

Some pedals are like that.  Seriously.  I have a wad of distortions, fuzzes, overdrives, etc.  There are some you plug a wah into and you simply can't hear any difference.  You generally can't hear much difference pluggin directly into the distortin and changing pickups or guitar tone controls either in those instances.  Other distorting circuits can respond VERY nicely to small changes in guitar tone control, or pickup selection, and thosewill often respond very nicely to wahs.

Of course, just about any distorting pedal will be okay if the wah comes after the distortion.

Gus

This comes up in the forum from time to time  Is the ESV a FF type?.  If so try a 10k to 47K resistor in series with the input of the ff type circuit when the fuzz is after the wha as a simple bandaid fix.   If this works search at this site and google wha buffer.   

GuitarPlayer

Somebody suggested a Foxrox Wah retrofit: http://www.foxroxelectronics.com/Wah%20retrofit%201.html which is installing a small booster in the Wah.

For now I have gotten a work around by changing the order to:

Guitar > Boost (set at unity gain) > Wah

There is a slight difference in tone, but it is not bad and will work for now.

Thanks!