Congratulations on your purchase of the
Fulltone
Guitar Player Magazine
says:
"....more pedal travel than the other wahs tested...yields great complexity in the middle registers...an experienced
wah user's pedal!"
Guitar Shop Magazine
says:
"the Clyde has the widest tonal range, the best tapered pot, the smoothest treadle action, and offers the most
control......preserving the alluring '60's tone while adding more flexibility for the '90's player, experience it for yourself!"
The Clyde is 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. 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 @360 mH. when they are supposed to
be 500mh. I like around 560mH. BTW, I’m getting tired of reading on the Forums that yet another pedal company is busted for claiming “custom
wound” this…and “Custom made” that, only to be found out as liars and cheats down the road. Rest assured, I’ve been doing this 20+ years AND I
employ an Electronic Engineer. I have deconstructed and Blueprinted every aspect of vintage Wah inductors, circuits, and Potentiometers…My
inductors are custom made and have been for 15years..they have my name on them, as are my Wah potentiometers!
My
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. My Inductors also have a unique
MuMetal
cover that rejects all of the stray hum fields that work their way in to other wah wahs, creating that horrible 60 cycle hum. The Clyde is
VERY quiet because of this.
My
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 '70's, '80's, and '90's wahs are so mediocre. We've made
our own I call the Full range pot with a major difference....... Ours has a triple-screened carbon-composition track giving a 500,000 turn lifespan
instead of the standard industry 10,000.
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 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. Unit
has a tough steel bottom-plate with huge rubber feet and nickel-plated bolts. Clyde also has a standard 2.1mm negative tip AC adapter port with
anti-hum filtering and protection diode.
Michael Fuller/Fulltone
Features:
3 way selectable switch:
#1 “Wacked” is reminiscent of the old Colorsound wahs....more of a “woooooowww” with extremely deep bass response. A radical change from
the standard wah tones you’re used to.
#2 “Jimi” is our benchmark recreation of the late ‘60’s Vox Clyde McCoy wah wah as used by you-know-who and Eric Clapton circa Cream.
#3 “Shaft” shifts the whole range up a little to capture the ‘70’s sounds heard on all those funk classics and cheesy movie soundtracks!
Adjustable IINPUT Level Control:
This knob allows the user to not only fine-tune the desired volume level, but to also overdrive the wah a bit for more overtones and grit.
This control ONLY affects the “on” sound because this pedal has true bypass...finally you can control your wah volume to the nth-degree! LED
status a nice bright glowing red LED to tell you when it’s on.... clean sounding True Bypass when off!
