Help with settings on Crybaby 105q wah

[bassplayer4893]

Does anyone no good settings (volume and variabe q) for the controls of the Crybabay bass 105q wah pedal to get the Tim Commerford sound? like the songs calm lioke a bomb and within a breath

 

[Kooldac]

Experiment. You better have some fuzz/dirt ready to pour into the input of the wah as well or it wont sound near as good.

 

[shaolinwhat]

ive always left both knobs at max. put an overdrive or distortion after it and itll sound pretty close

 

[bassplayer4893]

yeah i acually got a marshall gov nor pedal, im not copying tim, i had this pedal for a while, i got the wah cuz tim had it tho but i got the marshall govnor in front of the wah,i have the vol. as max and q as min, but i want to know no other ppl opinions just to see if it sounds better, i use 1/2 way for the q and max vol for tool, u no the song the pot, the wah after the little bass solo, sorry for the grammar, im only 15

 

[GreggBummer]

You should adjust your volume knob so that when you activate the pedal, your volume doesn't go up or down. You should have a pretty even volume... unless you are going for that kind of sound.

FWIW: My wah sounds so much better with a limiter.

Also, if you are chasing Timmy C's tone... good luck. He has the most complicated freakish signal chain I have ever seen. There are a million threads on here about it. Try searching it.

 

[shaolinwhat]

Also, if you are chasing Timmy C's tone... good luck. He has the most complicated freakish signal chain I have ever seen. There are a million threads on here about it. Try searching it.

this is the thing to keep in mind. but the 105q with a distortion will sound cool in general, and will give you a good starting point to do some fun stuff inspired by his sound. and the world will be filled with butterflies and unicorns.

 

[bassplayer4893]

yeah i really dont like the wah, only with the dist added to it i think it sounds really cool, by far this is my fav pedal tho over my digitech whammy: these are my pedals just to show u all my setup:

Left to Right: Boss DD-3 Digital Delay, Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, Digitech WH-4 Whammy, Dunlop Crybaby 105q bass wah, Marshall "The Guv'nor" (Old version) dist/over. pedal

 

[PawleeP]

ive always left both knobs at max. put an overdrive or distortion after it and itll sound pretty close

still tryin to figure out what the vari q is supposed to do?

 

[taurus1]

still tryin to figure out what the vari q is supposed to do?

I'm guessing that it varies (adjusts) the "Q".
google "parametric equalizer" to learn what the "Q" is.