Mowah kills Amp gain (solved)

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I first built a pedal. Just finished building a Mowah kit inside an old CryBaby. I love it. By the way, got rid of the heel click by arranging cables inside and using 2 tiny coaxial cables, getting their shields together as the 3rd signal.

The question. Using the pedal vs not doesn’t miss a lot of volume, just a bit, but the gain gets drastically reduced. I talk about the crunch, lead and ultra channels of a Hughes and Kettner Grandmeister 36. So there is a lot of gain. Crunch sounds like clean, and lead and ultra just a bit of distorsion.

I am not using the effects loop, I plug directly to the input.

Is it normal? Is it that the wah shall only be used with OD/distorsion pedals into a clean channel?

 

Thanks and take care.

[Anonymous]

UPDATE: The problem was my problem, the cable from pedal to the amp is a crap and took most of the signal away.

Now, with all the gain it is just awesome.

Ps: if anybody needs help with the heel click, I’ll be pleased to show how it was solved in my case but, to summarise, better routing and cable isolation.

[Barry]

When problems defy the laws of physics always check your cables.

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