Fulltone CLYDE Wah Wah

definition of Plug and play:) gave it a nine since SOMETimes its hard to turn on or off...but not when addrenaline is going.

I won't even say anything here.... just goto:

www.shelleygrund.com/jakes/voodoo.htm

Thats what i've been looking for. Homemade strat-----Wah-----Marshall Jubilee..... PERIOD (BTW: recorded at apartment volume! Gave it a nine simply because nothing can sound like a 10....well ...maybe a jubilee:)

Now I just got this tonight, but I included this recording to proove this isn't just a first night jitters when getting new gear.

Fulltone....its reliable

Fulltone.....good support

Only thing I have to say SMALL is the "true Bypass" gives me the SLIGHTEST issue, but its so small, I think only I can hear anydifference. ITs still true bypass, but I SURE wish I could say it absolutly didn't do anything to my tone when off. But this isn't a complaint. I have been a vox user for 8 years (as long as i've been playing) and i have never come as close to that recording until now. Judge for yourself.

Put it in line, stamp on it and wah! Larger sweep of rocker is strange at first, but has its advantages. Q/bias trim pot adds enough flexibility for my needs.

This is without doubt the best wah on the market. I own a FIRST RATE 1968 Vox, and the Clyde blows it away, as it does my old RM Vision wah and my Teese RMC 3 (which is also first rate). Use it in any setup, and it is wonderful - transparent but with a dense quack.

Switch is a bit iffy ( Mike Fuller put Carling switches on later models, solving this problem) and drops out if not given a good whack. Other than that -it's fine - I'll change the switch myself.

Email Mike Fuller, and he will mail you back - as simple as that. I know because I did and he did. And within an hour or so - not bad for someone who is pretty hands-on!

I'd buy it again and again if necessary. I've never heard a wah which sounded so good - and in my relatively short career so far I've owned pretty much all the best (and the rest) on the market...... Snarling Dog (dog crap more like), a variety of crybabys (including an original, a 535 and a Hendrix model) - but these are not at all good. The Roger Mayer Vision is good, as is the Budda, but the Teese RMC3 is better. The Fulltone is far and away the best. If you are a wah head, then buy one. If you live in the UK like me - try and get a second hand one (#300 is a bit much)I would give the pedal an 8 if I had paid full whack, but ebay to the rescue! No doubt about it - if only it went to 11...............

Simple. Plug and play. If you want, you can tweak the internal tone pot for the perfect fit for your set-up.

Clean, quiet and smooth. Really wide sweep but not brittle or muddy on either end.

Built like a tank. It's in an ATA pedalboard so I'm not even the slightest bit worried.

NA...sent "great product" emails but never heard back... Not worried...simple piece of gear to fix should it need repair in the future.

Play all kinds of music...jazz, blues, country & western (have to play both kinds ;- p ), rock, metal, pop...pedal fills the need when necessary. Not so great on the classical/flaminco stuff though...heh heh.

I play music for a living...need solid, reliable, quiet, toneful gear and have found the Fulltone line fits the bill. My gear has been stolen before and I've replaced it all...this pedal was actually an upgrade from the noisy dunlap Cry Baby in the original board. Would probably repurchase the Clyde if such circumstances required it.

Long and short of it....if you're looking for a WAH, you should definately give this one a listen...

N/A. operates similar to other wah pedals. It has an adjustable treadle screw which is nice. The manual is very good and explains the features of the pedal well. By removing the bottom cover you can also adjust a pot inside that can alter the amount of bass the pedal puts out. Very nice.

Let me say this. "If you can't tell the difference between this pedal and a Dunlop you must be deaf!!" If you like the Dunlop better, so be it, everyone has there own idea of good tone. But the Dunlop doesn't even wah above the 12th fret where the Clyde keeps wahing to at least the 17th fret. At least in my setup. That is not even an issue of tone. That is just better quality, clarity, and versitility. You don't always get what you pay for, but in this case you do. The Clyde's quality was obvious to me after swapping it with a Dunlop Crybaby. I now am hooked on using my wah in solos because it adds to my sound instead of covering it up. I also noticed that the true-bypass leaves my tone unaltered as it's supposed to, which is really the biggest reason I got the Clyde. This really is a great sounding pedal and I am not easily surprised. I will give it a 9 in this category because I wish it had a volume boost of some kind. But then, most wah's don't. Oh yeah, I am using it with a VHT head and Jackson Custom V guitar, with various effects in the loop and the Clyde placed in front of the amp where it seems to work best for me.

I have not had any issues so far.

I have not looked into this yet. I have read good things though.

I play mostly heavy rock and metal. This pedal seems to work great for any style of music from high gain to clean. I love how solid it feels and knowing that it is made by Fultone really helps me trust that it will last. The most important thing is that it makes me want to pick up the guitar even more than I already do. Any effect that does that is worth hanging on to!!

Plug this puppy into your rig, pull the back off and tweak the internal control to custom tailor this to your setup. You have to keep turning the unit upside down then rightside up to test out each possible tweaking. You shouldn't have to turn it more than 1/8 of a turn left or right of the factory setting or you just get garbage. You can turn it far but only a small adjustment will be worth investigating. Set it, forget it, and then let it rip. If you don't feel like messing with it don't worry. The setting Mike Fuller has set is good enough for most. It's just nice to be able to tweak your gear yourself.

I am using an American Classic Strat with Texas Special pickups and a Jimi Hendrix model strat. I use a modified Marshall Plexi Reissue(6550's in place of EL34's). Straight through to the Marshall it provides the most vocal wah ever. I think this has something to do with the long travel and the quality workmanship(duh!). What I can't get over is the massive amount of squeak and squeal that this thing kicks out when I use it in conjunction with my 70' pedal. I have blamed it on the wah because it does this at high volumes with any intense overdrive from my amp or my fuzzboxes. My Vox reissue didn't do this. I think this has to do with the extended sweep of the pedal. I haven't tried to tune this out with the internal control because I don't think it will do much because of the limited adjustment available. In the world of tone I have found you take the good with the bad. You make an improvement here and another problem or variable pops up there. Although I am doing some serious complaining here I still won't go back to the Vox or any other unit for that matter. I have even managed to get the squealing to work for me on some of the recording I have done by getting this thing to squeal in key! I realize this is not an option for sonic perfection sissies. When used at high volumes and big distortion it kicks out the tone every bit as much as low volumes but at those cleaner quiet tones I swear I can hear this thing talk and cry to me as if it has a soul of it's own. Taking these factors into consideration I give it an 8 and 17/32. If I didn't play the pure raunch and used low volumes it would easily get a 10.

Fully Fulltone reliable. Just carry spare batteries and potentiometer cleaner. I've had mine 2 years and it works and sounds better every day.

Buy this one if you love a great wah because it is serious tone dog. High volume and Fuzz dudes, see if you can get it to squeal in key!

Wah Wah Pedals Are Very easy to use. There are no external adjustments other than the obvious. Internally there are some adjustments, but it sounds good so why mess with it.

The quality of this unit is excellent. It is total Jimi. Ver much a classic sound.

Built better than anything on the market in the "Standard" Wah Box. It's heavy and made out of steel.

This has been a sore spot with me. And I'm not alone.

For the price I paid (the clerk at the store didn't know who Fulltone was, and I was able to talk him down another $30.00...), the quality and reputation of the unit, and the fact that it's a pro piece with great sound (tied for best in my wah collection with an original vox clyde)I think this pedal is fantastic. I didn't need another wah but couldn't pass up such a great opportunity. It's a great pedal.

It's a wah, not a lot of learning curve here. Press forward, engage, rock until your foot gets tired, press forward again, bypass.

The only problem I had, is I'm used to a Vox wah, and this thing has move travel on both ends. You can rock your foot further both ways. Not that big a deal, but it took me a few days to get used to it after 20 odd years of playing a Vox.

This is the best sounding, most musical wah I've had yet, hands down. The ONLY other wah I've had I've liked (almost as much) is a old modded Vox. I've had Morleys, Budda, Dunlop, Boomerang (OK, if you like that Shaft tone, the Boomerang is it, hands down), and this is my favourite by far.

I use it for everything, almost all the time. I can't tell the differance in my chain, with this in the loop, or out. Sounds the same to me. No degradation at all.

I tend to leave it on pretty frequent, and use it for a 'tone filter' while I'm not using it as a wah-wah. I'm kinda into Mick Box (you know, Mr. Uriah Heep) and this delivers. It sounds just as good with all my varied guitars and amps. My Vox for example, is kind of picky to me, and I think it sounds best with a Les Paul. This fulltone, sounds just as good (to my ears) with a Wolfgang, 330, Explorer, Strat, ect... I dig it with everything.

There really isn't much to go wrong here, as long as the pot don't wear out. Anymore, this is the ONLY wah I drag around with me, I trust it more then most all my other gear. I think you'd really have to try to kill a wah pedal.

Mike seems cool to me, he's direct and to the point. He responds, so no problems there. While I havn't had any problems with any of my Fulltone stuff yet, I'd expect him to take care of it, if I did.

I've been playing for well over 2 decades, and own way too much gear to list. Mostly Gibson Guitars/basses/amps/pedals, ect...

I actually have 2 of these things. Not that I expect problems out of it, but it's such a big part of my sound, that I'm not taking any chances. Hands down, this is the best sounding wah I've yet played.

Simple as can be. You do have to open it to change the battery, but I use an AC adaptor.

After an initial adjustment to get used to the "sweet spot"'s location, I am now in vintage Vox wah tone-land. The Clyde is silent and non-microphonic, and does the Hendrix thing well. Occasionally it is easy to miss the switch or forget to turn it off, so an LED would be nice, but I've gotten in the habit of leaving the pedal in the bass position when I step off it, so if it's still on, you know it right away instead of playing for 15 minutes and wondering why the high end seems so prominent all of a sudden. Ths pedal will NOT suck your tone like some wahs will. Listen to "Rainy Day, Dream Away " by Hendrix, and you'll get the idea.

I have an old De Armond Weeper that I replaced with the Clyde due to some reliability/noise issues, but the Weeper stays at home. I figure if the Clyde's pot wears out after 15,000 movements, I'll go without for the rest of that gig until I can get another.

Never dealt with Mr. Fuller

Great for blues, rock, whatever. Been playing for 20 years, and this is my second wah. Not as tweakable as the Crybaby 535Q or Bad Horsie 2, but Fulltone pedals blow away the competition on quality, workmanship, and reliability. You can own three or 4 Crybabys in the lifetime that you will own a Clyde. If you need knobs to tweak, consider the Clyde Deluxe. The clyde does have an internal pot you can adjust, but I've never felt the need to fool with it, as I'm happy with the sound I've got straight out of the box.

Hey, it's a Wah. This is the easiest of all effects pedals. One thing that is particularly cool about this Wah is that you can make adjustment inside, trim up the bass or treble. However, I leave it alone. You can't fix perfection.

OUSTANDING!!! I play a Gibson Les Paul Classic through a Mesa/Boogie DC-5 so I had to buy a fulltone. Why throw a piece of junk in with a high quality instrument and a Boogie? This is why I went fulltone. Anyways, I am total Led Head so as soon as I received my Wah I had test it out with a little 'No Quarter'. As I am sure you all know, the greats like Clapton, Page, SRV, Hendrix all used the VOX. Later, when I was reading about Wah pedals I discovered that there are some very important components that give each pedal (or brand) their own distinct sound. (pots, and especially the inductor) After some research I found that the old "Clyde Picture Wah" as well as the old Italian made Thomas Organ Co. VOX w/ the burnt orange "stack of dimes" inducters and even the "film canister" are supposed have the best tone. But I also found out that they were a little unpredictable, with a variance in tone. Also, you're talking serious coin for a nice vintage VOX. That's when I found out about the kind of work Fulltone was doing. I read a couple of reviews that outlined the Fulltone commitment to the vintage "Clyde" tone and checked out the website for a listen. Once I heard the pedal in action I was sold. I am going to rate a -10- because it fits my vision of great tone.

Built like tank. I really can't imagine one of these going bad. I'm very serious when I say this is truely a quality piece.

I.ve yet to deal with fulltone directly so I haven't an opinion.

My overall rating of this pedal is that it is truely terrific. It is absolutely perfect if you are in to Cream, Zeppelin, Hendrix, SRV or just about about any other classic band. I am not going to say that the Fulltone will out perform any other pedal in any musical situation because that would be plain stupid, because it is all about an individuals preference. I will say this though, it can't possibly get much better. Even the RMC, as good as they are supposed to be, couldn't be a better Wah. It may suit someone elses preferences more but there is no way it is better. Quality, Quality, Quality!!! I can't stress that enough.

If you don't know how to work this, you're an idiot... Click on - Rock back and forth, click off.

This is by far the best fucking wah on the face of the earth... Don't need all the buttons, "maytag" switches.... Click and go!!! No extra noise at all... I used mainly Strats (With the occasional tele, sg jr, & Firebird)->Clyde Wah,Deja-vibe,Soul-bender,fulldrive II,RM Octavia,supa-trem,H&K rotosphere, EH Dlx memory man, line 6 DM-4 Delay w/ expression pedal into a MESAA/Boogie Maverick 2X12 combo and a Matchless Clubman 35 with 2X12 cab.

This thing is a sherman tank..... Heavy, very trustworthy... the wah is a major part of my sound so of course I have a back up... The next best thing IMHO, Budda Bud-wah

Well Mike has his moments... If you pay the shipping he'll fix it but otherwise on the phone he's kinda anal and real uptight...

I've only been playing for about 5 years... I learned what was good really quick (Billy Gibbons Helped me)I would have to buy another if it was stolen, I love everything about it....The tone... Ahhhhh So God-like....Everything I've ever wanted in a wah... Worth every penny