Hey folks! Hope you're all well.
A couple of months ago I received 3 Fractal EV1's to replace the expression pedals on my board. I LOVE the EV1's, they feel fantastic, look awesome and are super responsive for controlling stuff on the Axe FX.
As much as I tried, however, I couldn't get used to the long sweep of the pedal for Wah usage. I have one EV1 dedicated just to wah use and didn't want to switch back to a Mission pedal (which worked great, but then my board would not look as sexy, which is a really important consideration), so, being the saddo that I am, I started thinking about how to I could tweak things to make it feel like a regular Wah / Mission type pedal and came up with a really simple and obvious hack to achieve it.
So what I wanted was for the EV-1 to have a similar physical feel and sweep to my trusty old Teese Wizard Wah
I took a few measurements and found that on toe-down, the gap at the back of the EV-1 was 35.5mm and 13mm on the Teese. With the extra length of the EV-1, this made the sweep even bigger than just the gap at the rear.
What I did was to work out how much total sweep I wanted on the EV-1 to make it feel as close to the Teese as possible, and worked this out by stuffing some of my KickTags labels at either end (hey, they're multi-function!) until the amount of movement seemed about the same. It seemed I needed to restrict movement by about 15mm at each end to make it feel like the Teese.
I then went to my box of goodies in the garage and found a selection of self-adhesive black rubber feet. Of these, I found a bunch that were 13.5mm (ish) in height.
I then stuck these to the 'stopper' circle on the front of the EV-1 (i.e. the bit where the rubber stopper of the pedal hits the chassis) and also at the rear of the EV-1 at the appropriate place there.
I stepped on it and the range of movement was pretty much spot on with the Teese!
Next step was to recalibrate the EV-1 on the MFC, for the new restricted range of motion. Having done that, I tried out a patch, jumped on the EV-1 and .... aaaaaahhhhh! LOVELY! Felt JUST like the Teese Wah, but it was an EV-1. Magic!
I jammed on it for a while and, you know what... having gotten used to the longer throw of the EV-1, I felt the range of movement was a little too shallow for me now, so I swapped out the rubber feet at the front end of the pedal for some that were smaller in height.
Followed by a recalibration of the pedal range on the MFC again and that was it - my perfect feeling expression pedal for Wah. Feels just like a wah pedal now - allows me to jump on it without having my foot angled too far back (I know, I know, first world problems) and allows quicker quack-quack style Wah-ing without too much movement.
Nice and simple mod - my board remains looking super sexy with a trio of EV-1s, which all feel fab, and I have a Wah that feels exactly as I want it to.
Hope this is of use to some of you!!
Sukh
A couple of months ago I received 3 Fractal EV1's to replace the expression pedals on my board. I LOVE the EV1's, they feel fantastic, look awesome and are super responsive for controlling stuff on the Axe FX.
As much as I tried, however, I couldn't get used to the long sweep of the pedal for Wah usage. I have one EV1 dedicated just to wah use and didn't want to switch back to a Mission pedal (which worked great, but then my board would not look as sexy, which is a really important consideration), so, being the saddo that I am, I started thinking about how to I could tweak things to make it feel like a regular Wah / Mission type pedal and came up with a really simple and obvious hack to achieve it.
So what I wanted was for the EV-1 to have a similar physical feel and sweep to my trusty old Teese Wizard Wah
I took a few measurements and found that on toe-down, the gap at the back of the EV-1 was 35.5mm and 13mm on the Teese. With the extra length of the EV-1, this made the sweep even bigger than just the gap at the rear.
What I did was to work out how much total sweep I wanted on the EV-1 to make it feel as close to the Teese as possible, and worked this out by stuffing some of my KickTags labels at either end (hey, they're multi-function!) until the amount of movement seemed about the same. It seemed I needed to restrict movement by about 15mm at each end to make it feel like the Teese.
I then went to my box of goodies in the garage and found a selection of self-adhesive black rubber feet. Of these, I found a bunch that were 13.5mm (ish) in height.
I then stuck these to the 'stopper' circle on the front of the EV-1 (i.e. the bit where the rubber stopper of the pedal hits the chassis) and also at the rear of the EV-1 at the appropriate place there.
I stepped on it and the range of movement was pretty much spot on with the Teese!
Next step was to recalibrate the EV-1 on the MFC, for the new restricted range of motion. Having done that, I tried out a patch, jumped on the EV-1 and .... aaaaaahhhhh! LOVELY! Felt JUST like the Teese Wah, but it was an EV-1. Magic!
I jammed on it for a while and, you know what... having gotten used to the longer throw of the EV-1, I felt the range of movement was a little too shallow for me now, so I swapped out the rubber feet at the front end of the pedal for some that were smaller in height.
Followed by a recalibration of the pedal range on the MFC again and that was it - my perfect feeling expression pedal for Wah. Feels just like a wah pedal now - allows me to jump on it without having my foot angled too far back (I know, I know, first world problems) and allows quicker quack-quack style Wah-ing without too much movement.
Nice and simple mod - my board remains looking super sexy with a trio of EV-1s, which all feel fab, and I have a Wah that feels exactly as I want it to.
Hope this is of use to some of you!!
Sukh
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