Description
Most wah pedals sweep evenly across their travel; the EVH95 doesn’t, and that’s the point. Dunlop reverse-engineered Eddie Van Halen’s personal Cry Baby — a stock unit he’d modded decades earlier with a High Q inductor and widened frequency range, then physically reshaped through years of use, since Eddie parked most of his foot action in the middle of the throw. That habit literally wore a custom curve into the potentiometer’s resistive track, thickening the midrange response while opening up more low-end sweep than a standard Cry Baby offers.
The EVH95 clones that worn pot profile and pairs it with a hand-selected inductor, so the vocal-like snap and low-end push land in roughly the same spot on the sweep as Eddie’s own unit. Drop it early in the chain ahead of your gain stages for that classic quacky-to-honking transition, or run it into a saturated amp for the full brown-sound wah effect. True hardwire bypass keeps your tone unaffected when it’s off, and dual bright blue LEDs make on/off status easy to spot on a dark stage. The black-and-yellow striped enclosure nods directly to the Van Halen II guitar finish, so it looks the part on any board built around VH tones.
This is a used unit — a genuine, road-tested piece of a signature wah’s history rather than a fresh-off-the-shelf copy.
- Clone of Eddie Van Halen’s worn-in potentiometer curve
- Hand-selected inductor for vocal-like sweep character
- True hardwire bypass
- Dual bright blue bypass LEDs
- Black and yellow striped graphics based on Van Halen II
- EVH-approved signature design
- Sold as used
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