recommend me a good alround wah pedal

guitarfishbay

If you can get it modded to true bypass the Dimebag Crybaby From Hell wah is fantastic, in design, tone, and tweakability.  It does look daft with the camo paint job but the skateboard grip is great and does grip better than rubber IME.

It has a 6 way range selector, variable Q, you can tweak the highest possible sweep frequency and there is a boost with a kickswitch.  The range, Q, high frequency and boost pots are all external.  It has LEDs for on/off and boost on/off and can be wired to go right -> left (traditional) or left -> left if you'd prefer.

It can do smooth blues and it can do huge sweep OTT metal style sounds, and pretty much everything I can think of in between.  If you want something to tweak they're worth a look, not true bypass by default though IIRC.  I wouldn't recommend them to someone who just wants a wah sound, a normal crybaby would be a better bet because the default setting is already pretty good.

crunchman

Not cheap but the Fulltone Clyde is good.  Mine's been bombproof - unlike my brother-in-law's Crybaby.

fretmeister

Weeping Demon or Vox Big Bad Wah.

Both great

stickyfiddle

BYOC or Madbean Weener wah. Both brilliant with a good inductor if you fancy some soldering.

nickp

Thanks y'all.  I was watching a big bad wah and a couple of the others but have succumbed to a cheap 535Q crybaby which might leave some money to go towards a monster delay unit that I'm gassing for.

spacecadet

Another CAE user here. I also have a standard crybaby and a budda which individually sound better at their respective strengths (CB for car chase funky stuff and Budda for snarling rock) but for a gig I would go for the CAE. Kick the switch and you can cover both those ranges mid song!

Dave_Mc

I've got the CAE and it's nice and versatile.

The only two concerns I have are that 1) under your foot it doesn't seem to feel that natural, if that makes sense. The sweep doesn't feel as natural as even a bog standard crybaby, to my ears and fingers and 2) it really helps to tweak the internal controls, as if mine was anything to go by, the internal controls are set to help the thing sell in the shop. And being internal, it's a pain going back and forth trying to tweak the thing. You end up settling for "that's close enough" rather than perfection, as you can't tweak really while listening to the thing.

digitalscream

I use the Weeping Demon Jr - I never really used the switched version, and if I need a cocked-wah sound then it's not to onerous a job to keep my foot on it for a bit. The boost's bloody useful, too.

It's also got a decent buffer in it, which means you can use it as the first pedal on your board with no ill effects; I vastly prefer having my wah on the far right, and I detest having to run cables around all over the place for a signal chain which doesn't fit the physical positioning of the pedals.

p90fool

Dan-o-wah, none of the others look like Cadillacs.

Actually they sound great too, switchable between a couple of wah presets, plus a fantastic built-in octave/fuzz.

DrBob

My 18month long Wah Odyssey came to an end with the acquisition of my Gig FX Frampton Mega Wah.
That said my EB wah comes in a close second