wah wah tone control trick

[vachief]

...I liked it.

[Xavimanjazz]

It is a great idea.... but, isn't it a little hard to play? it's easier with a pedal switch. isn't it?

[commandhtf]

Hah! Just mastered it on my strat. Thanks for the idea. Very vibe-y and wah wah cool. I didn't have to buy a pedal or special knob.

[hypolittleskittle07]

It's not modified, it's just a different taper.

[joegagan]

@hypolittleskittle07

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it IS modified, i opened it up and altered the carbon on the contact. thanks for your guess, though.

[rud3m3chanical]

You get much the same effect if you use a 500k pot, except it's in the last part of the travel. I believe that's how Danny Gatton ran his guitars.

[joegagan]

@rud3m3chanical , that is possible, many amazing things can be done with pots. i use mine so much i wear them out!

[DiscoverGuitarOnline]

cool !

[ottozing]

sounds realy thin

[leopower7]

QUA QUA QUA QUA QUA

[jasper11227]

Are you lefthanded!!!If this is true have to arrest you, because you're too cool(I'm lefthanded too!!!!)

[LinkBulletBill]

The wah pedal gives more wah though, because of the double tone effect... However my guitar with doing that with the tone knob doesn't work :S

[danceofthedruids]

Much more reactive tone control .... nice ... I tried doing a wah with my Alembic Stanley Clark and Alembic had to send me a new tone control after a week .... I assume you don't use this wah function as much? Yer an innovator!

[Ralecaster]

It sounds like a duck!

[slpplexi1969]

@Ralecaster You should hear a Strat!

[WARinMYhead1]

nice tone man!

[jondanet]

Roy used to do this on his old blackguard.

[joegagan]

no, just a cts pot, modified internally to make the sweep occur in the first quarter turn. has a regular cap to ground (.o22?) but no inductor.

[AsphyxGr]

is it an inductor and a cap on the pot to achieve the effect ?

[bwilliam68]

Telecasters fucking rule! fuck yah haters

[OwnedRL]

dude...just get a wah pedal and free up your other hand lol.

[joegagan]

true dat. i will take a bc rich warlock in bright pink any day

[BigDawg69wh2]

haha

[mikolene97]

@joegagan There's a BEAUTIFUL warlock at my school that was been sitting and collecting dust with no strings on it for over a month now!

[CarbineGuy]

I never liked how telecasters looked...

[TheMetroidMasterTeam]

in other words they are seperate pedals

[TheMetroidMasterTeam]

dude there's different types of pedals like super distortions and mega distortions wah wah pedal is one pedal on its own you get them all seperate xD

[bestchris]

you have to pick SO close to the saddles to pull that off.. unless you have a freaky long pinky.. something that wont sound pleasant on a tele (imo)

[dimebaghendrixsh]

only wah. the only one I know that does more is Slash's signature. it also a distortion pedal

[acmilanccmr9]

This Telecaster Plus? (Lance Cut Pickup?)

[agus9507]

if you read the main comment and your reply it is:

1: cheese

2:OOOOH!!!!!! i used that........

it looks like you use cheese for your guitar

[itwasryan]

but... my control switch is way down theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere! T_T

[Tomgrandelf]

u need long fingers

[itwasryan]

yeah... its a les paul... damn you control scheme!

[Tomgrandelf]

i've an sg... same controls XD

[ASTROAVERY]

pretty awesome

dont really like how much reverb though

[aerofr33k]

nice tone but i hate telecasters

[Broodkill]

i do to man. so ugly to me.

[aerofr33k]

i heard that

[SLaMproductions1]

is that a toploader bridge?

what year guitar is that?

[JONHWAR]

hi

its a very good tip what tone pot do you have?

it´s standart 250k???

[BountyHunter233]

telecasters have the best quality pickups

[Juandisimo]

No.

[BountyHunter233]

yes

[BountyHunter233]

yes

[3th4n69]

lol.

depends on what you wanna play.

metal = humbuckers (almost a MUST)

blues = whatever tickles your fancy

[Yogaaaaaa]

hard to used

[joegagan]

yes. but the pickup used in the video is the bridge PU

[sansome]

is that a strat neck pickup?

[laama5]

uuu lefty

[guitarmoe888]

it just sounds like my normal tone pot when its closed....is that the right word?

[joegagan]

yes, when turned all the way down ,it does sound like a regular tone control. the real trick is that with the super fast ramp up, it allows a wah sound with much less motion.

i believe it would be very hard to make it sound like this with a regular tone pot.

[stellar09]

just a normal tone poti i think !

try out ;)

[joegagan]

this pot was internally modified to put the entire taper in the first 1/4 of rotation. requires a gentle touch with 400 grit sandpaper on the carbon trace.

[iagobroxado]

nice!

What's the deal behind that pot?