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Pedalboard / 005
Eric Clapton
One wah between guitar and amplifier. The saturated “woman tone” came primarily from the guitar controls and loud amplifiers, not a chain of overdrive pedals.
Signal path / A
Cream-era floor rig
Documented minimal rig
Documented equipment · Source-described order · Serial path
Contemporary accounts place a Vox wah in Clapton’s Cream-era setup. Claims about an always-used treble booster are disputed, so it is intentionally excluded from this core path.