Modify Your Wah Pedal

After making my talk box I started surfing the web for other guitar related things I could do myself. I found loads of info on the Dunlop GCB-95 wah pedal. This Instructable will walk you through all of the modifications I made to my wah pedal...

*True Bypass Mod
*Volume Boost Mod
*Wah-Volume Pedal Mod
*Vocal Mod
*Midrange Mod

After having completed all of these mod and a few others I recommend doing them one at a time and testing in between mods so if you don't like something, you can easily reverse it.

Your gonna need some basic soldering tools...
-good soldering iron (mines a Weller WESD51D I got for christmas)
-solder
-wire cutter/stripper
-helping hand (a must!!)

also the to wire anything to the board itself you will need 24AWG wire








ALL STEPS:

step 1Research

I think this is a big step in all of my projects. You don't want to just jump in without input from multiple sources. A few of the site that helped me were... [http://home…

step 2True Bypass

So when your have you pedal off it doesn't affect your sound right? WRONG!! You may have noticed that even when off some of you effect pedals "suck" the tone from your guit…

step 3Volume Boost

This is one of the easier mods because If you've converted to true bypass, all you need to do is replace the 68K series input resistor with a lower value. I read that too l…

step 4Wah-Volume Pedal

Now I'm sure we would all love one of these [http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Fender-Classics-Series-VolumeTone-Pedal?sku=150489 here], but if your like me you just n…

step 5Vocal

This one is pretty cool because it allows you to treak the sound of wah itself. "Replace the 33K resistor... with a 68K. This gives a more vocal quality to the wah. Some …

step 6Midrange

"Replace the 1K5 resistor... with a larger value. This increases the midrange and helps if your wah sounds dull and muted when you rock the pedal back. Try 1K8 to 2K7. High…


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