Wah pedals. Mysterious things aren't they? Ever since the days of the first Clyde McCoy wah pedals, guitarists have searched desperately to get the 'perfect' wah tone. Lucky for you, help is at hand! My name is William Thorpe and I have spent the last few years trawling around the good old internet searching for ways to get a better wah tone. You can skip the bits where I went wrong and get a good tone without all the hassle!

For this project, I used a Jim Dunlop GCB-95 wah pedal as they are cheap and easy to get hold of. I'll admit, I was taken in by the 'Oooh its a crybaby, they must be the best!' as many newbie guitar players would be, but even if your a pro, these can be swapped, chopped and changed to sound pretty decent! The clips I have made all come in 3's. Clean/Overdrive/Distortion. To keep things fair, I did all the clips with the Neck Pickup of my 05 American Strat, going into my Marshall DSL 401, then into a Shure SM57 microphone placed in the center of the speaker cone running into my M-Audio Firewire Solo into Audacity, in case you were interested. There will be a gear page soon in case your interested.

I went backwards with this project, I started modifying then thought that this would be a good idea to do, so I modified the wah back to standard except the true bypass modification, which I simply could not be arsed to do. Fair enough?

Lets get started then shall we?

-True bypass
-Standard Crybaby cliips
-Vocal modification<
-Sweep mod
-Midrange modification
-Turner mod
-Information on inducctors
-Replacing an inductor

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