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Decided to setup a second rig, one built around rack effects instead of my GT8. This meant I had to source a wah pedal. Went to a few music stores because of course, I waited until the last second... and found a crybaby classic fasel. Here are the good and the bad things I found about it:
1) It's true bypass. NO tone suck when it's off. I even had built a true bypass box to use vintage effects that I didn't want to mod, and tried it with the crybaby. NO difference at all. Score one for Dunlop.
2) It sounds killer. I know, some wahs can be modded, but this one just has a certain sweetness that I've never found with mods. And yes, I've owned very nicely modded wahs (take a bow JGCable) and modded some myself afterwards. I don't think you're going to be able to replace the tone and response of a different inductor with a resistor or cap change.
3) It has a battery compartment you can access without taking the bottom of the wah off. Hooray!
Bad things:
If you're going to mod one of these, forget it. The board has tiny surface mount components. If you like it, great. If you listen to it and think that maybe just a little tweak or component change here or there would be better, forget it, because you are stuck with how it sounds.
I give it a thumbs up overall, I've played a Teese and a Fulltone Clyde, and I think the fasel classic compares well to them. One of these days I'm going to buy a BYOC wah kit for the hell of it and build my own custom kickass wah, but until then, the classic kicks butt and is pretty cheap - $99 new.
Pete
1) It's true bypass. NO tone suck when it's off. I even had built a true bypass box to use vintage effects that I didn't want to mod, and tried it with the crybaby. NO difference at all. Score one for Dunlop.
2) It sounds killer. I know, some wahs can be modded, but this one just has a certain sweetness that I've never found with mods. And yes, I've owned very nicely modded wahs (take a bow JGCable) and modded some myself afterwards. I don't think you're going to be able to replace the tone and response of a different inductor with a resistor or cap change.
3) It has a battery compartment you can access without taking the bottom of the wah off. Hooray!
Bad things:
If you're going to mod one of these, forget it. The board has tiny surface mount components. If you like it, great. If you listen to it and think that maybe just a little tweak or component change here or there would be better, forget it, because you are stuck with how it sounds.
I give it a thumbs up overall, I've played a Teese and a Fulltone Clyde, and I think the fasel classic compares well to them. One of these days I'm going to buy a BYOC wah kit for the hell of it and build my own custom kickass wah, but until then, the classic kicks butt and is pretty cheap - $99 new.
Pete
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