Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah User Manual

Congratulations on your purchase of the Fulltone®

CLYDETM Deluxe wah

Features:

The CLYDE deluxe has some neat additions over the standard CLYDE:

3 way selectable switch

#1 “Wacked” is reminiscent of the old Colorsound wahs....more of a “woooooowww” with

extremely deep bass response. A radical change from the standard wah tones you’re used to.
#2 “Jimi” is our benchmark recreation of the late ‘60’s Vox Clyde McCoy wah wah as used by

you-know-who and Eric Clapton circa Cream.
#3 “Shaft” shifts the whole range up a little to capture the ‘70’s sounds heard on all those funk

classics and bad movie soundtracks!

Adjustable Gain Control
allows the user to not only fine-tune the desired volume level, but to also overdrive the wah a bit

for more overtones and grit. This control ONLY affects the “on” sound because this pedal has

true bypass.....finally you can control your wah volume to the nth-degree!

LED status

a nice bright glowing red LED to tell you when it’s on.... clean sounding PureBypass when off!

Internal Resonance Control:
There is an user adjustable Trimmer inside your lovely new wah that lets you change the gain and
bottom-end (Bass) response...it is located on the circuit board and requires no tools to set.
There is room around this trimmer for you to mark your favorite settings using any type of permanent
marker. With the wah plugged in and amp on, turn the wah over and remove the back plate by loosening
the 4 rubber feet (note: no tools required, just turn counter clockwise until they come out)
With the wah situated in front of you so that the section of the unit with the battery is facing you, notice
the trimmer with a line pointing to a black arrow (this is my favorite setting) for your particular wah) Now
set the trimmer to @ 2 O'clock. that's a stock '60's Vox sound. Turning the trimmer clockwise gets more
gain and Bass.
True Bypass switching is essential for no tone loss when effect is off. The wah is activated by rocking all
the way forward and pressing hard with your foot. This amount of pressure needed to activate effect can

be adjusted for firmer or softer feel....simply contact Fulltone if you have any questions.

The Treadle
accomplished by either loosening or tightening the "nylock" nut on the side of the treadle at the pivot­point where it connects to the bottom housing. It will stay put until you change it the next time.

(part that your foot rests on!) is also adjustable for a firmer or softer feel. This is

I recommend using a Carbon-Zinc 9 volt battery (included) such as the Eveready "Classic" or "Super
Heavy Duty" instead of an Alkaline, which although they last longer, tend to sound harsh. Do your own

experiments.....leave the wah plugged in and quickly change through a couple of different types of

batteries, but keep your amp's volume down so as not to damage your ears or the amp from the noise
when reconnecting the next battery. This pedal is also equipped with a convenient 9 volt DC jack that is
Tip Negative

, make note of this, and make sure the adapter you use is the same!!!!!!

Fulltone®

Michael Fuller / President
4220 Glencoe Ave.
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

310.821.4500 fax [phone]
[e-mail]

www.fulltone.com

CLYDE DeluxeTM wah

The Fulltone "CLYDE" wah is here!

Guitar Player Magazine review says: "....more pedal travel than the other wahs tested..........yields great complexity in

the middle registers..........an experienced wah user's pedal!"

Guitar Shop review says: "the Clyde has the widest tonal range, the best tapered pot, the smoothest treadle action, and

offers the most control......preserving the alluring '60's tone while adding more flexibility for the '90's player, experience

it for yourself!"

The "Clyde" is born from taking the best of the best of my more than 25 pc. vintage Vox wah collection, and
analyzing every aspect... going so far as sacrificing a few of the vintage inductors to get it right. The problem with the
old (and other company's new) inductors is that they're generic industrial-grade cheapos that vary as much as 30% in
tolerance, some of my mediocre Vox's measured in at @360 mh. when they are supposed to be 500mh.

Our inductor

unit....using EXACTLY the same type wire and inductance as the '60's era Vox, except VERY consistent from one

unit to the next. A Tuned-core inductor is much more expensive to make, but the end result is worth it....drop this

into your wah and watch out! ($29.95)

The circuitboard
hand- wound "Tuned Core" inductor. The only change from the original Vox design is the addition of a very usable
internal "Resonance Control" which is a large, durable trimmer easily adjustable by hand without tools and with
room to mark your favorite settings. This board will drop right into most wah's without hassles.

The Potentiometer
hasn't been a proper "tapered" pot, since the '60's "Icar" in any major manufacturere's wah. This is one of the

reasons the '70's, '80's, and '90's wahs are so mediocre. We've made our own I call the Fullrange pot.....( available

10/97 as a drop-in replacement for you to put in your wah $27.95) with a major difference....... Ours has a double-

screened carbon-composition track giving a 500,000 turn lifespan instead of the standard industry 10,000.

I don't like the original Vox-type housings that everyone uses, and I had to design and produce one that made more
sense. The traditional housings don't give enough Potentiometer range limiting your tonal sweep, and they have little
compensation for tension or feel. The Fulltone "Clyde" uses our own custom-made 14 ga. welded steel pedal with
nylon pivot points and much more travel than the conventional Vox-style ones that everyone uses. It has nylok nuts so
you can adjust the tension of the treadle, and it stays that way until you change it. As with all Fulltone pedals, the
"Clyde" has true bypass switching so that when it's "off" it's not coloring your sound or ruining the performance of
other pedals in your signal chain. Unit has a tough steel bottom-plate with huge rubber feet and nickel-plated bolts.
Clyde also has a standard 2.1mm negative tip AC adapter port with anti-hum filtering and protection diode.

Michael Fuller/Fulltone

Warning:

.......available as a drop-in replacement for 90% of the wah's out there, is a tuned-core hand-made

(also to be available as a drop in replacement (price $89) uses carbon composition resistors, and our

.......the most overlooked part of the circuit, is one of the keys to a good wah wah sound and there

DO NOT SPRAY ANYTHING INTO THE POTENTIOMETER TO CLEAN IT unless it's Craig DeOxit