Simple as hell wah mod that anyone can do

[Jack The Riffer]

Always wished my Budda wah had a bit more of a useable sweep (more treble). Lemme see if I can explain this without being confoosing: Assuming all wah's are the same, there's the shaft with teeth connected to the pedal that rolls the pot when you rock the pedal back and forth. The pot has more play than is used so I simply moved the shaft off the pot (extremely simple) and rotated the pot a tad more to the treble side. Using this example, let's say the wah, heel down & tilted back, didn't start the treble kicking in until half way down now kicks in sooner. I guess the whole point is you CAN adjust your wah's sweep to possibly get it where you want, sure is a helluva lot cheaper than buying mod kits.

[Black Bear]

New pots are cheap, too.

[Homer]

I've done that on all CryBaby wahs I've owned so far; makes it so much more usable. Especially because I have the feeling the pot in the wah seems to co-rotate little by little while using it, no matter how tight you screw it to the pedal. I always tune my wah to the full trebe range, sounds reay awsome.

[Troy T. Blues]

I've been doing that adjustment (mod) for years. I move the pot to a higher treble setting accordingly. It always sounds so right to me. It all depends on how your amp is set and what guitars you use. All in all, it's called "tuning a wah".

Jack, I would call it a "stick" instead of a shaft just to avoid confusion.

[Steve Dallman]

The gear is the pinion and the straight ratchet is the rack.