Dead wah

[Lobsang]

Hi evryone!
A friend brought me a dead Crybaby recently. Stock 90s style, completely wrecked. The PCB is ok safe for the inductor that has been torn apart and broken off the board. The pot is a bit noisy but the big trouble indeed is the inductor replacement. Id like to know if any of you ever tried the transformer as a replacement, or something similar( not just read the article- I know the GEO page backwards) as mentioned in the "tech of the wah pedal", since most of these things work perfectly only in theory. I also thought of building an entire diffrent circuit and using the original enclosure and pot, what would be better? Any suggestions or clues will be much appreciated. Thanx!

[petemoore]

get what you pay for if you know what to choose
 haven'T tried it<
 better' resultant wah tones can be had with BEtTER' inductOr
 i'm using one of the two stock vox wah [newer lIke nineties] inductOrs i have.
 i think an uPgrade woUld make me rate the wah beTTER', nOT That WHAT i use IS BAD', JUSt DIFFERENT...AND DOESN'T REALLY DO IT As WELL AS WHAT I THINK I CAN EXPECT.
 [EXcUSE THE CAPS, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO REFORMAT].
 if it were mine, id PUT In A nicE CLyde OR faseL
 SEARCH 'Wah induCtOr' THEre was a lENGTHy THREAD A WHILE BACK ABOUT WAH inDUCTORS.

[lightningfingers]

Steve Daniels sells Fasel inductors. The audio transformer DOES work, but not as well.

[jimbob]

I thought about the same thing w a post not too long ago. Sounds like your better off maybe perfing a new board--buy a cheap dunlop inductor. I havnt heard anything good about the transformer usage from anyone..For just a few $$ more 12 usd you can get the standard dunlop inductor versus 4-5 $ for a half ass working transformer.. youll have to spend the money. But really..the price to get it going is still a lot cheaper than buying new.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Has anyone had any experience yet winding their own ferrite cores?
Because, it is going to be very difficult to get stuff sent to S America where the original poster is. Try transformers, who knows, you might like it!! some people have reported success.

[sir_modulus]

I actually liked the sound of the transformer. It kinda tone sucks from the circuit thought as some of the signal also induces itself on the second coil.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

I actually liked the sound of the transformer. It kinda tone sucks from the circuit thought as some of the signal also induces itself on the second coil.

...well I don't know exactly what would be going on, but, experimentally, I wonder if anything interesting can be done by putting caps across the second coil???