Wah-Wah

This is just some random "color" text that we found associated with wah-wah pedals. We wanted to keep it because of the reference to Jimi Hendrix's "Summer of Love Sessions" (1967) when he was learning how to use a wah-wah and the fact he used an Ampeg Reverberrocket amp:

SGVMusic History of the Wah-Wah "Very soon after, Frank (Zappa) showed it to Jimi Hendrix. In early July, Jimi went to Manny’s & bought one himself, also from the first batch in from Italy. At the time he was completing the long drawn out song Burning of The Midnight Lamp which was finally finished and mixed on July 20th, 1967. Jimi was also finishing up his commitments and recordings for Ed Chalpin. There are rare Wah Wah tracks of Jimi getting to know the new VOX Clyde McCoy Wah Wah Pedal through an Ampeg Reverberrocket amplifier."

We have been assembling an inventory of Wah-wah enclosures not because we want to make a large variety of wah-wah sounds, but also because we have been entertaining the idea of putting as many guitar pedals into wah-enclosures as is reasonable and is feasible because we want to make a whole different range of sounds available by use of a treadled pedal. So our goals are two-fold:

• Crazy and cool sounding Wah-wahs
• Enabling a whole new kind of crazy and cool sounding pedals using the same kind of foot-treadled mechanism

We want to help you make as many cool and un-copyable sounds as you can while you're practicing, performing, or recording.

The only PCB that we haven't found is a Flanger-effect PCB with a footprint small enough to fit inside a wah-wah enclosure. We think it would be so cool to be able to make a flanging effect that tracks the rocking of your foot on a pedal in the very same way a wah-wah sound tracks.

We will remain on the lookout for such a PCB. Who knows? Maybe we'll be inspired enough to make one if we can't find one...

Enclosure Collection

Number	Brand	Model	Base Color	Treadle Color	Treadplate	Boxed?	Serial #	Notes
1	Dunlop	Rotovibe	Blue	Chrome	None	N		Needs Treadle reattached
2	Thermionic	None	Purple Sparkle	Purple Sparkle	Black rubber diamond treadplate	Y
3	Thermionic	None	White	White	Thermionic horizontal black	Y
4	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
5	Dunlop	GCB-95	Red Sparkle	Red Sparkle	Dunlop tread	Y
6	Dunlop	GCB-95	Red Sparkle	Red Sparkle	Dunlop tread	Y
7	Dunlop	GCB-95	Tobacco Burst	Tobacco Burst	Dunlop tread	Y
8	Dunlop	Custom Badass Wah	Brushed Metal	Brushed Metal	Dual tread strips	Y		Dual inductor
9	Dunlop	95-Q	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	Y		Wah activated by foot pressure
10	Dunlop	95-Q	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	Y		Wah activated by foot pressure
11	DeArmond	70s Volume pedal	Grey	Grey	"Standard"	N		Squared shape / just volume
12	Dunlop	105Q	White	White	Dunlop tread	N
13	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
14	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
15	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
16	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
17	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
18	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
19	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
20	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
21	None	Thermionic	Bare aluminum	Bare aluminum	None	N		Assembly hardware missing
22	None	Thermionic	Bare aluminum	Bare aluminum	None	N		Assembly hardware missing
23	None	Thermionic	Bare aluminum	Bare aluminum	None	Y
24	None	Thermionic	Bare aluminum	Bare aluminum	Thermionic horizontal black	Y
25	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
26	Dunlop	EW-95V	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	Y		Dunlop Volume Wah
27	Vox	V847	Black	Chrome	Vox tread	N
28	Vox	V847	Black	Chrome	Vox tread	N
29	Vox	V847	Black	Chrome	Vox tread	N
30	Dunlop	Crybaby From Hell	Olive Camo	Olive Camo	Sandpaper CFH tread	N
31	Dunlop	535-Q (new)	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N		Side knob w/ 2 side mini pots
32	Dunlop	535-Q (old)	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N		Side knob w/ 2 bottom mini pots
33	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
34	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
35	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
36	Dunlop	ZW-45	Brushed Metal	Brushed Metal	Custom Zakk tread	N
37	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N
38	DeArmond	50's Volume pedal	Brown	Brown	Brown tread	N		Rounded shape / just volume
39	Dunlop	Mini-Crybaby	Black	Black	Mini-tread	N
40	Dunlop	GCB-95	Grey Hammertone	Grey Hammertone	Dunlop tread	N
41	Dunlop	GCB-95	Black	Black	Dunlop tread	N		screw broken in hole

Other Treadled Pedals

• Jimi Hendrix Wah (in box)
• Jimi Hendrix Wah (in box)
• Dunlop Tremolo (not in box)
• Dunlop Variphase - has same "on step" activation as 95-Q (in box)

Wah-type PCBs

This is the list of PCBs that we have that go into treadled enclosures, part of the reason we've been collecting a large number of used or broken wah-wah pedals

1. DeadEndFX CosmoKing
2. DeadEndFX Fubble Wubble
3. DeadEndFX Ludwig II (As an additional control to another enclosure holding the effect)
4. DeadEndFX Mr. Multi
5. DeadEndFX Pompei (This is a Synthi Hi-Fli Clone and needs 2 Wah enclosures for the effect)
6. DeadEndFX Talkalizer
7. DeadEndFX Tresonator
8. Electric Roots Banshee
9. Electric Roots Ventilator
10. GGG Custom Wah
11. GPCB Apollo Tremolo
12. GPCB MoWah v3
13. JMK PCBs Modulay
14. Madbean Harbinger II (Univibe in a Wah shell)
15. Madbean Weener Wah
16. PedalPCB Parasite Wah
17. PedalPCB Parasite Wah
18. PedalPCB TearJerker Wah
19. Thermionic Banshee
20. Thermionic Mouth of Doom
21. Thermionic Space Warp

Other Wah-Type Pedals

Other Treadled pedals that modify sound similarly but we may not have such:

• Colorsound Vocalizer

Wah Inductors

We have a collection of inductors we've gathered in order to put into our various wah-wahs in order to access the sound characteristics of each.

List: Gotta go dig them up!