Is there any reason I couldn't take my beat up cry-baby, kind of gut it and use the shell for a volume pedal?
I'd like to get a 500K volume pedal, but would much rather spend a few bucks on a pot.
Your thoughts?
- HR
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Is there any reason I couldn't take my beat up cry-baby, kind of gut it and use the shell for a volume pedal?
I'd like to get a 500K volume pedal, but would much rather spend a few bucks on a pot.
Your thoughts?
- HR
You can do it, but you don't get the full 270 degrees of pot rotation from a Cry Baby housing. So you either never get to zero, or you never get full volume.
Hmm, if that's the case, I might try it.
I'm not really interested in zero, just rolling the volume back a bit with my Les Paul into my 5E3. It darkens up a bit to much a low to med volume using the guitar volume.
Thanks,
- HR
Well, it's not going to sound different than a guitar volume knob. It's the same circuit, only in a pedal, rather than the guitar.
Try 50's wiring.
I've got an RSGuitarworks vintage kit in there, with grey tiger caps.
I also just recently installed some High Order pickups. I love this R7 now.
It's perfect with my Super Reverb, or even my 18 watt for that matter, the volume rolls back and it does darken up a bit, but not half as much as with the tweed.
May just be the nature of the beast.
At volume (8 or above) it's fine. I'm just being picky is all.
Thanks
- HR
Go here http://www.wah-wah.co.uk/
Go to left and click on Circuit Mods and the scroll down to the Wah Volume Mod.
You may want to look into the True bypass Mod while your there.
FWIW I have done all those Mods and tweeked a Couple crappy Wahs and made them absolutely killer. It took alot of Beer and one weekend but it was worth it and cheap to do. Never did the Wah-Volume Mod.
I'm thinking..."why"?
Aren't straight volume pedals kind of inexpensive?
Take the crybaby and mod it up, not down...
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Originally Posted by Cygnus X1
Why buy a Volume Pedal when you can make one with an old Cry Baby thats collecting dust.
A good 500K pedal is around $150.00.
A 500K pot, much less. ;-)
- HR
OK, got me there.
My volume pedal remains up in the cabinet, unused.
The wah is handy though.
Personal perspective.
Interesting site, never saw that before. I did a couple of those mods on my own at the suggestion of a friend a while back. The 'vocal' mod was quite good.
OK, what got me thinking about doing it on the cheap was this site (go to the bottom):
http://www.recproaudio.com/diy_pro_a...eed_deluxe.htm
It's also the site, along with this one that go me horny for a 5E3. Now I have 2. ;-) Not a minute of regret.
- HR
Yeah that site is cool. I had a guitar buddy show up to a gig of mine not long agao and he said that I was so much better on the wah than he was and I told him that I think it's my wah. I could never get that good Voodoo Chile beginning sound on my stock Cry baby until I went to that site. I went thru every individual mod to tweek my wahs to perfection. Amazing what a few resistors and caps will do !Quote:
Originally Posted by Gris