Fulltone Clyde Wah

Wah wah's and Hi-Gain amps/pedals don't work together well....well,
they used to not work together. The Solution is the new Fulltone Clyde
Booster/Buffer, offering up to 20 db clean boost and a Fuzz/Friendly
circuit that (most importantly) doesn't alter the wah's original sound.
All the ones I've tried added harsh treble so I developed one that
doesn't. All Clyde STANDARDS now come with this built in switchable
Booster/Fuzz-Friendly circuit while still retaining the TrueBypass that
Fulltone has always been famous for.


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 modeled after.


The
Fulltone "CLYDE" was born from taking the best of the best of my 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.

Our Inductor 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 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.


CLYDE Standard wahs
sport the most authentic '60's Vox type inductor available, which
happens also the quietest...our hand-wound MuMetal shielded Fulltone
500mH inductor


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. We've made our own I call the
Fullrange pot (... ours has a double screened carbon composition track
giving a 500,000 turn life span instead of the standard industry 15,000.


I
don't like the original Vox-type housings that everyone uses, and I had
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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