Scratchy Wah

[EIK]

Hello,

I hope it's okay to post this in this forum.

I have a scratchy Vox pedal that I would like to fix. I think it might be as simple as to change the pot. I've never done any repair on any pedal before though. What do you guys think?

Thanks,

EIK [img]graemlins/peace.gif[/img]

[rascalseven]

You might try cleaning the pot with DeOxIt D5 and just work it. I just fixed a buddy's Ernie Ball volume pedal that was intermittent and scratchy. I just touched the solder points with a hot gun and then cleaned the pot as above, and it now works perfectly.

Of course, it could be a bad pot as well.

Just a thought,

Joel

[gus]

http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/index2.html

or

www.geofex.com

[adamasd]

It is almost deffinetly a dirty pot, but the VOX wahs that I have seen the insides of have a seeled pot. So unless you want to dismantle the pot, cleaning is not very likely. You can get replacement wah pots uite a few palces, they tend to cost around $25 US. If you do not want to spend that much you can try random pots of the right value and see if you can find one with a decent response. Just do a search for "Vox wah replacement pot" and you should come up with quite a few places selling them. You can also try VOX directly or any music stores that like to sell guitar stuff and have a repair department. Very often you can get them there.

[cjenrick]

i think the pot has to be drilled for a drift pin.
it holds the gear in place

they had a box full of those guys at the surplus for a buck a poece but somebody snagged them.
had the gear included.
Mike Fuller would be my choice.

cj