Robin Trower

In this interview with Guitar Player, Robin Trower says, "Yes I use the...Clyde Standard Wah..."

In this interview with Guitar Player, Robin Trower says "Yes, I use... something Mike Fuller built for me called a Wahfull, which is like a cocked wah that you preset with a knob."

Mike Fuller discussed making the Wahfull here, saying "11 years ago I made a couple of fixed wah wah effects I called the Wahfull®… they were simply the guts from a wah wah stuffed inside a box with a knob so you could find that perfect Mid-Boost sound every time you kicked it on. Nice effect, sold a few, moved on. Last year Robin Trower called me and said he was doing some gigs with Jack Bruce and asked “Would it be possible to have a wah wah in a regular box so that one could get that “fixed wah” sound by clicking on the pedal?” So I made one up and he’s been using it ever since."

In this interview with Guitar Player, Robin Trower says, "Yes I use the… Clyde Standard Wah…"

Mentioned in the July 1980 issue of Guitar Player, with the details summarized in this March 13, 2009 Gibson article.

Guitar Player, July 1980, "British Rock Guitar Veteran"

From your left to right, how is your pedalboard currently set up?

The first effect is a preamp that Mike built, which is on all the time. The second is another volume booster, a Dan Armstrong Red Ranger, which I use for even greater sustain. Third is my Tycobrahe [sic] wah-wah. The fourth is the Fender Blender. The fifth is the Univibe, and the sixth is a Mu-tron II. The seventh and eighth are Mistresses with different settings; the one on the left gives a double-tracking effect, while the one on the right provides more of a flanged sound. But I think I've come to a halt as far as effects go. I mean, I can just barely handle what I've got now. There's so much stuff going on that if you just started mixing them there would be a limitless number of combinations you could get.

From your pedalboard, where does the signal go?

Into a splitter box, then to my amps. I don't use a mixing board or anything when I'm live because I like to be very much in control of what's going on. Especially concerning dynamics, that's so much a part of my music that I wouldn't feel happy if someone else were controlling it. I like to be creating the sound.

Gibson, "How To Get That Robin Trower Sound", March 13, 2009

Trower’s hottest rig blasted his array of Strats through a pair of 100-watt Marshall JMP-100 Mark II heads feeding two 1960-B 4x12 cabs and had an impressive effects chain on the floor: custom preamp and clean booster pedals, a Dan Armstrong Red Ranger treble booster, a Tychobrahe wah-wah, an octave/fuzz Fender Blender, a Uni-Vibe chorus/vibrato, Mutron II phase shifter, and two Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistresses.

In this video, Robin shows his pedals for the "No more worlds to conquer" album.