Switching out a wah pot...

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Switching out a wah pot...

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:33 am

Simple question in the hope that it'll help me get on with my Whipple Wah build today....

Here's the old, trampy looking pot....
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The wires lead to one of these horrible, PCB-mounted junction box thingies (totally confusing for me)....
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Please excuse my hi-tech shielding technique. Paper's all I had at hand!

This is the sexy new pot that's part of the Whipple build....
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I want to record the old wah before I rip its guts out but it's not working. I bought it cheap with the intention of pimping it out so I never actually tested it. Doh!
As far as I know, it never worked in the first place & the seller was laughing his head off when I never asked for a refund.

So, I'm hoping the pot's the problem. When I plugged it in a few days back I got either a bypassed signal or a scratchy pot with no wah effect at all.

Which wire goes where on the newer pot?

Black - ?
Blue - ?
Yellow - ?

My guess would be Black - 1, Blue - 2, Yellow - 3 but I could be wrong.
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Re: Switching out a wah pot...

Post by timbo_93631 » Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:37 am

Black 3, yellow middle, blue 1

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Re: Switching out a wah pot...

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Sat Nov 16, 2013 5:43 am

Thanks!
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