Hey everyone!

So this week something cool happened! I came across an old vintage Vox Crybaby pedal made in Italy. I’m gonna go ahead and make the assumption somewhere in the 70’s. Unfortunately the pedal wasn’t working correctly and had quite a bit of crackle in the signal. But! Plus for me because I found the opportunity to restore an old wah. I figured the only thing wrong with the pedal was the wiring connection being iffy because it was so old, so all I had to do was re-solder some stuff.

First I took a picture of the old solder connection just to give an idea of what it was before.

Not that the connections look that terrible but the wiring and connection just could have used an extra reset. So after cleaning up some of the older connections this was the result.

Now I know I’m not the best at soldering but hey…..its there. After all I was pretty surprised on how I did with some of them.

BTW: I have never soldered to this level before (usually its even easier stuff than this) BUT! I flung a piece of solder close to my eye as well as onto my hand….so that was a good time.

All in all really fun project, the pedal has a lot better connection and sounds pretty spectacular compared to its earlier crackle. The first video is the “crackle” wah (before solder) and the second video is the wah after “crackle” (after solder).

Thanks a bunch guys! see you next week with some other pedal (just wanna let you know its gonna be amazing and I’m sooooo excited for next week). Also feel free to share and like and other social media stuff haha.