http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2689/4244800256_3cbf98c14c_z.jpghttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2750/4244803968_9216ca0b67_z.jpghttp://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i120/severthee/ax/IMG_2934.jpgive come across some vintage(thomas, italian, jen wah, wah baby etc) and not so vintage wahs(rmc, wilson, area51),
i love the quack and warm syrupy sweep they have.
at one point in my personal projects, ive even become anal with pot taper, inductor hfe+ohm and transistor's hfe.
i thought theyre the last piece of the puzzle to be tweaked since the RC are easy to adjust anyway, and though i never paid much attention to the fishly caps, i preferred the polystyrenes because theyre quite accessible even if theyre easy to scorch if you dont heatsink. although there are oddball audio transformer that i tried that didnt fall within the standard 500hfe spec but produced good sounding wahs. i remember i used something like 1000hfe before.
but in the end i always go back to my plasticky, toyish, synthy sounding.. ibanez wh10.
it was my first ever effect way back when i was a kid. and i love it even before the whole fame it got because of fruciante. i dont get the big deal on jacking up the price when one can easily clone it.
nothing i encountered came close to it.... but maybe a moogerfooger with a cv pedal =]