Wah
Some wah pedals seem to be most effective in the bass frequencies. This might be physically adjustable with your pedal, I don't know.
My experience has been that when you get into the higher pitched sounds the wah gets very thin. It seems to wallow around in the full bass sounding frequencies very well, producing pronounced wah.
My new old style classic Vox with the chrome trim, no sure of what model, has more useable sweep of the pedal range - instead of just producing wah within a short half inch or inch of pedal travel, leaving the rest of the pedal travel as basically an exercise pedal, having no wah effect whatsoever. The new Vox reissue I got has a much longer range of effective pedal travel that actually produces wah sound, rather than being just an exercise pedal. Plenty of wah pedals have mostly no effective pedal travel that actually produces a modulation of the sound. Most of the travel up and down is dead space and you need to find the sweet spot, which can be very narrow indeed.
Some pedals are adjustable so they have more range of action, but none of mine do, other than what is designed into them - the Vox being far superior to my Cry Baby and some of the ones on multipedals. The tone on the Vox with the chrome trim is also far superior and it was well under 100 US. Some dude turned me on to the Vox one. It's a four hundred and something "A" I think, like a 425A or something. Maybe it's technically not much different, but practically it is WAY different. To each their own on wah pedals.
Don't be surprised if you find that most of them are minimally effective on the higher notes. You will have to search around and use your feel and your ear until you find one that works the way you want it to.
Good luck. I'm sure if you play all the ones you can find you will see the phenomenon I'm alluding to. Some of the good wahs are quite expensive.
I wonder how he wah pedal on that Line six HD500 is?
Duffy Bolduc
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