WAH WAH problems

hi!

I finally got a WAH-WAH (Cry baby). A friend lend it to me so I could tested it for a few days. The problem with it is that whenever i play low notes, there is this annoying noise.

Another friend told me it may be a little dirt, but I have cleaned it but I still hear the noise. What do you think it is and What I should do?

Thax,

PS: It`s a GCB-95b Cry BAby.

All wah pedals tend to be a bit noisy. I assume you're referring to a 'hissing' sound in the background. This is more apparent when the input signal is relatively low level. You can compensate for this (a bit), by raising your guitar volume, and lowering the input channel volume on your amp. I your guitar is already turned up full, you're pretty much stuck with it. This noise is more noticeable with some models than others. My Dunlop JH-1 can be a real 'pain in the process' sometimes.

I think a Noise Gate pedal might help .

I know how does a noise pedal work ... It cut-off the lower volume sounds (you controle what should be the point to cut-off signal of lower volumes when you set the parameters) like hissing sounds when high distortion is on and the guitar not played , which is lower than the notes you make sound.

I know it won't help if the noise happens while you're playing , but I just thought he/she might have noise problem when not playing too ... Usualy you get more noise when you turn the wah on , so I suggested that he/she tries a noise pedal to see if it help.
That's all.

After reading the thread, I went and tried my Crybaby out. I did not notice a hissing sound, or any other sound for that matter. I turned the volume up and down on the amp, and I put the pedal at different angles. My pedal is only about 6 months old, if thats any help.

Metal Aphrodita - Do you hear the noise while you're moving the pedal ?

If it gives scrachy noise while playing the wah-pedal , check the potentiometer , it might need some cleaning.

Well, first of all this pedal it`s like 4 years old(and has been used very little).

Last Saturday I spent the whole afternoon cleaning the potentiometer, and playing. At first has this hisss... Then the noise seemed to have gone away, but then againg it returned ... So I kept on playing, and alittle later I posted this thread.

Yesterday (Sunday) I woke up and the first thing I did was to check it .. And it`s was O.K. It could have been the lack of use which cause the hiss (plus the dirt in it)?


GOOD lUCK

PS: Thanks a lot, Again!

Good on yer!

My pedal, (Dunlop JH-1) was made in 1976, I think. It hisses and spits like a mad thing if I place it before the high-gain stage of the signal chain. If I use a stomp box for distortion, and feed that to the wah, the signal-to-noise ratio is better, but it's a different sound. In my case the pedal is noisy simply because the transistors in the filter circuit are almost thirty years old, and they probably didn't have very good noise characteristics to begin with.

Not sure what any of you are talking about, but as most of the time when a person spends days trying to fix something, it ironically ends up to be the smallest thing, try hooking your guitar into your amp through the HI input (if you have it). There might also be a switch on an effects pedal for HI and LOW if you have any sort.