Bad Horsie and distortion

[AleTheNervo]

I noticed that while using the Bad Horsie Wha on the bridge humbucker position with the clean channel the sound comes out a quite distorted. Using a paf-pro is not much but with an inf-2 it's sensibly heareable. It occours on the first 1/3 - 1/2 of the pedal sweep.
I use a Trace elliot tube amp, but I noticed that on many other amps and also with other whas as the GD-30 and the Crybaby....

Has anyone of you experienced this?
Is there a way to fix the problem?

Thanks

[AleTheNervo]

...I forgot, this is the set up

jem 777 -> bad Horsie / GD-30 -> Trace elliot Super Tramp (tube preamp - transistor)

[Algiman]

Looked at simplistically, any wah works by boosting a narrow band of frequencies. Chances are that your clean channel was close to clipping, and the boosted frequencies from the wah are just pushing it over the edge.

What happens if you turn down the gain on the amp (or the volume on the guitar) - do you still get the same problem?

[AleTheNervo]

if I turn down the tube preamp or the guitar volume it's better..but no way to fix it in other way?
turning down thepreamp there's a lost of tone (naturally)

[Rocker1]

always put the wah before the distortion, sound crap otherwise

[Epicus Furor]

I've got a Bad Horsie and a Tremonti and both of them distort on anything past 1/2 way, I've always wondered why this happens too. The wah is always put first in my signal chain after noise gate, and the clean channel is very low gain

[AleTheNervo]

In my opinion the only thing is that the tones of the humbucker are "too hig" and with the wah make the tube "clip"!

Sorry for the non thecnic language