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Help with Wah (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/guitarpedals@lemmy.world
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I have a Cry Baby (original) wah as the first pedal in my chain. The next pedal is a Death by Audio Fuzz War, followed by a Boss Blues driver overdrive. When I click on the Wah, does absolutely nothing if the Fuzz war is on, but it works perfectly fine with the Blues Driver if I bypass the Fuzz war. Anyone have any ideas why this would be?

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Does running the wah after the fuzz give the same result? I've never used a Fuzz War specifically but I had a heavily modded Big Muff and it would overpower several of the other effects I was running at the time. It did work better for me if I ran the other effect after the fuzz, but a gritty heavy fuzz can be overpowering

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It does, but it sounds kinda meh. Do you think changing brand of wah would make a difference? Maybe the Fuzz War is the issue...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I have a fuzz war clone and I run a cry baby mini after it. I think it sounds awesome but it depends what you want. I recall having the same issue as you which is why it's in that order.

    I did try another wah when my original full size cry baby broke but it was even worse! That was a Morley lead/boost model I think, which just sounded shit with the noisy pedals I have.

    I'm also running another couple of fuzzy things earlier than the fuzz war.. I think if I put the cry baby first it probably wouldn't work at all. Tbh all those pedals affect each other a crazy amount. I love the fuzz war sound but it's a pretty extreme effect as you'd expect from DBA.

    Good luck with your experiments!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    A lot of fuzz pedals will do this because they produce harmonics on octaves above and below the predominant input frequency. If you're changing that predominant frequency with a parametric filter, the fuzz is working hard to undo it.

    The way I remember it, overdrive guys liked wah -> OD, and fuzz guys liked fuzz -> wah. You boost the frequencies you want to OD versus "shaping" the fuzz.

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