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OK it was in fact the obvious. Bought a brand new no brand ICAR alike pot, soldered in, and voila, a really fabulous vintage wah sound :) Now I just need a tiny nut to fix that pesky lose DC input jack and remove that awful tape. I’d happily put this up against some vintage V846 Vox wahs (that cost ...

OK will do.

Thank you Laurie, appreciated.

I have seen various posts here and there to indicate it can be a problem with wahs.

I also not this wah is quite microphonic, tapping the case for example. There may be a grounding issue or the inductor is on the blink.

Righto ... schematic is (allegedly) this one: https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?t=25794 The pedal is a volume pedal when the wah is disengaged, so yes, it does appear that the pot connects to the output socket. The crackling could be many things, but my money would be on the pot (even th...

That's right, forgot to mention its a Volume too.

Yes, when I picked it up it was scratchy, hence a pot change. I've used Contact cleaner liberally but as yet no change.

Yes, apologies, very hectic here, quite a stressful month alas. Pics to follow later in the week. The layout however, is identical to Pepe’s pictured above. You will see the wire leftmost soldered to the wah potentiometer (brown purple) threads down and is soldered directly to the input jack live/ti...

The vintage Jen Mister Cry Baby Super is repaired and it sounds awesome! Luckily our dear fuzzbuzzfuzz was able to help me out with pictures of his own Jen Mister Cry Baby, so I quickly found out how the potentiometer had to be wired. It has the great wah sound that I missed when I sold my Jen Doub...

Amongst the collection my BF-2 Green Label is a 1986 issue with those knobs, which I would guess to be standard timeline. Serial in the 600000s. Never seen a HF-2 with those black knobs, certainly unusual. According to the BOSS book codes (in this thread http://www.bossareaforum.com/Forum/viewtopic....

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Sun Oct 05, 2025 7:12 pm

I just grabbed 250 of them, just in case they are in short supply in the future.

How did you purchase those Laurie?

Time to use those 2SB175B transistors I harvested here: http://www.bossareaforum.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1019 In case there is interest I'll walk through the entire process including the new approaches (e.g. using this http://www.bossareaforum.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1015). I'll be usi...