Behringer Hellbabe wah pedal

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How you getting on with that Hellbabe guys?

Mine arrived this afternoon and I'm a bit troubled by its switching. I'm used to a wah being toe-down to be off and then pressing the pedal a bit to switch it on then rock backwards to wah into the lower frequencies. This Hellback throws all that on its head. 

I found the little hole to adjust the time before it switches off beneath some Velcro on the bottom but haven't found it to be a lot of use. It MIGHT be if it gradually returned to normal tone. but it suddenly losing its wah sound is annoying me.

What I'm finding tricky is a noticeable switching on sound as soon as I touch the pedal but then only seemingly being able to wah up into higher frequencies. That can't be right can it? What on earth do I adjust? I want to be able to wah down into lower ones. My experiments with the big chrome knob on the right nor the three little adjustment knobs on the left don't seem to reverse this at all. Maybe I need more time with them? 

I'm finding it switching itself off all the time a real nuisance too. Is there a way to leave it cocked or does it have to return to off? That spring adjustment thing maybe?

Yeah I'm a few hours in to it but I simply cannot get it to wah down into lower frequencies rather than up into higher ones. Impossible to sort of do a vomit wah or slowly wah down into the depths or wah up from the depths. It seems to take almost your standard guitar signal (give or take that annoying switching on sound) and then only be able to wah tonally up from that. This seems weird. Maybe I just got used to my wahs doing the opposite. Can't remember what the Cry Baby does. Does that wah down into lower frequencies or up into ear piercing ones?

Yeah is based very much on the Cry Baby from Hell with regard to all of the features except for the one that's letting it down: that 'heel-down on' position switch.

The Cry Baby doesn't have that 'move it and it's on - stop moving it and it's off' feature. It just has a switch that you stamp on with the toe down.



So with the Cry Baby you are already in a toe-down position when the pedal switches on. As soon as the pedal switch engages you have a sort of unity sound with your bypassed sound, a bit tonally different so you do hear a difference (I wish you didn't) but ready to go with a heel-down wah which drops it into filtered more bassy tones. Rocking it will kind of go ah-oo-wah. The Helbabe does the opposite. The minute it engages it is at sort of unity AND you hear it switch on then when you press the toe down it does the opposite of the Cry Baby and heads UP into filtered trebly tones and so goes oo-wah-oo but with very toppy sounds added.

Using it slowly is tricky because if you rock it to far backwards it will switch off if you don't move it again quickly. I reckon that using that spring screw it may be possible to stop it rocking right back to the switched off position. But I don't think I'll bother with adjusting it because of the main problem with the wah-ing function that doesn't suit me.

I'm not finding any videos online that show any way to override this.

I've used it just clean and with OD in front and after it but of course, because it doesn't function like a Cry Baby it will not do a heel down OD gargle; a sound that I love to do, and I've tried it with the boost on and off, both output jacks. Sure it'll chukka-chukka in its own way.

You're way ahead of both of us on this @defjef. My comparative knowledge and experience with Wah could be written on the back of a postage stamp ...remember those? =]

That said, may and dare I say it, blindwilly3fingers exposure and my own, apart from having no basis of 'hands on' (figuratively speaking) direct operational comparison, has the advantage of us learning from the outset perceiving the Behringer Hellbabe's operation as functionally normal. Much like riding a European motorcycle of yore with gearshift and foot brake pedals on the opposite side and in the case of the gear operation, reverse orientation, the original config before the days of the Japanese revolution and dominance. Whichever one learns initially takes on the guise of normal, and it can take quite a lot of exposure before the other assumes a similar degree of reflex instinctivity, especially if it has been reinforced over a lengthy period.

All I can contribute to this conversation, is that from watching a great many You Tube comparison and evaluation videos, praise is consistently lauded upon the Hellbabe. ?