NEW! Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah Pedal
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Clyde McCoy was a big-band Trumpet Player in the '60s... not a great
musician, but one famous for getting a muted "wah wah" sound. This led
to Vox trying to approximate this muted trumpet sound in a pedal...hence
the Vox "Clyde McCoy" wah wah circa 1967.
Jimi Hendrix and Eric
Clapton used a Vox "Clyde McCoy" model wah wah. Photos taken during the
recording of "Electric Ladyland" document Jimi's as being the
"signature" model, featuring Clyde McCoy's name written out script style
on the bottomplate. The other type of Clyde McCoy was the "picture"
version, which had Clyde's photo on the bottomplate. The "signature"
model, with it's great sounding "halo" inductor, is what the Fulltone
CLYDE is modelled after.
The Fulltone"CLYDE" was born from taking
the best of the best of Fuller's more than 25 pc. vintage Vox wah
collection, and analyzing every aspect... going so far as sacrificing a
few of the vintage inductors to get it right. The problem with the old
(and other company's new) inductors is that they're generic industrial
grade cheapos that vary as much as 30% in tolerance, some of my mediocre
Vox's measured in at at 360 mh. when they are supposed to be 500mh.
Fulltone's
Inductor (also available as a drop-in replacement for 90% of the wah's
out there for $29.95) is a tuned core hand-made unit using EXACTLY the
same type wire and inductance as the '60's era Vox, except VERY
consistent from one unit to the next. A tuned core inductor is much more
expensive to make, but the end result is worth it, drop this into your
wah and Experience the difference!
The Circuit board uses carbon
composition resistors, Polypropylene WIMA .01 capacitors, and our hand-
wound "Tuned Core" inductor. The only change from the original '60's Vox
design is the addition of a very usable internal "Resonance Control"
which is a large durable trimmer, for Bass and gain adjustment, which is
easily adjustable by hand without tools and with room to mark your
favorite settings.
The Potentiometer, the most overlooked part of
the circuit, is one of the keys to a good wah wah sound and there
hasn't been a proper "tapered" pot, since the '60's "Icar" in any major
manufacturer's wah. This is one of the reasons the '70s, '80s, and '90s
wahs are so mediocre. Fulltone made their own they call the Fullrange
pot (also available as a drop-in replacement for your wah at $27.95)
with a major difference... theirs has a double screened carbon
composition track giving a 150,000 turn life span instead of the
standard industry 15,000.
Fulltone doesn't like the original
Vox-type housings that everyone uses, aso they chose to design and
produce one that made more sense. The traditional housings don't give
enough travel and potentiometer range, limiting your tonal sweep, and
they have little compensation for tension or feel. The Fulltone "Clyde"
uses our own custom-made 14 ga. welded steel pedal with nylon pivot
points and much more travel than the conventional Vox-style ones that
everyone uses. It has nylok nuts so you can adjust the tension of the
treadle, and it stays that way until you change it. As with all Fulltone
pedals, the "Clyde" has true bypass switching so that when it's "off"
it's not coloring your sound or ruining the performance of other pedals
in your signal chain.
The Clyde also has a standard 2.1mm negative center-pin AC adapter port with anti-hum filtering and protection diode.
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