Dunlop 535Q Wah Settings

Hi everyone,

i've spent the whole morning "profiling" my trusty 535Q was pedal and thought I'share the settings just in case anyone is interested. Not sure if this is the right section to post this either, so feel free to move it if necessary...

As some of you know, the 535Q is a nice pedal in that it includes a few extra features such as a Range and a Q selector, as well as a programmable boost.

I have A/B'd the following settings:

- Range Position 1, Q halfway: Manual 3.6 - Peak 6.9 - Pedal Range +24% - Peak Range -22%

- Range Position 3, Q halfway: Manual 3.2 - Peak 6.9 - Pedal Range +30% - Peak Range -21%

- Range Position 5, Q halfway: Manual 2.7 - Peak 7.4 - Pedal Range +26% - Peak Range -23%

I've tried them with both clean and distorted sounds and I'd say the accuracy goes from 90 to 99% accurate, which I guess is pretty good. Keep in mind I am using a Moog EP3, so depending on your pedal you might have to adjust things (though you probably won't need to).

I hope you find this useful. I've read many posts about the confusing parameters of the wah section, but with a bit of experimenting it does reveal itself to be quite a remarkable tool!
Time permitting, I will do more of this (either fine tuning these presets or doing other wah pedals...).

Best,

Andre

You're welcome. I've actually been exploring the stomp boxes and it's a very interesting endeavour... So I might not only do more wah settings, but other stomps as well. I have quite a few pedals and whatever I "profile" I'll post here.

I think I have a quite credible, old school octafuzz stomp I will share after some testing. There's a great pedal builder here by the name of Juan Carlos Blanco who built some pedals for me a few years back. One of them was our take on the fuzz+octavia. I've got the octave part figured out, including the randomness of it, but I'll try to make it work with a fuzz stomp in front. It already works very well with distorted profiles, though. Anyway, sorry for the rambling... more coming soon...

Quote from lef38

Thank you ! I have 535Q too but I transformed it into an expression pedal for my upcoming KFC

how???

Hi Paul, it's a long thread... but a quick google search shows me a conversion is very simple stuff. I like my 535 too much to do that but if I find a cheap classic crybaby I'll give it a shot. the only thing I don't like too much about the Moog is the longer range. It's fine but to me nothing beats the classic Dunlop format... Thanks!