Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: jazzyvee on January 04, 2020, 08:45:19 PM
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I have used two wah/cry baby pedals in my guitar setup for as long as I can remember and I wonder if anyone else does as I haven't met anyone else who uses them in the way I do. Usually when using two they are chosen because they each have have a particular sweep when in use and are used singly.
I use one as a tone control and the other as a regular wah pedal. The tone control one is in always clicked to be on so that the foot pedal can be left in a particular place and brought in and out of the audio path via one of the loops on my Boss LS-2 and the other pedal is in straight through path after my overdrive pedal.
In fact years ago I did wonder if I could put the whole circuit into a guitar so that I could use it as an on-board tone control but it never got further than that. But i guess there is something similar about the way the filters and Q controls affect the sound on alembic guitars and basses that sits nicely with me. It enables me to get some of that nasally guitar sounds heard on vintage reggae records that sound great when doubling the bass lines on guitar.
I used to get strange looks from other guitarists when I was touring and getting into discussions about pedal boards. Does anyone else do this?
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Never tried that. I do, however, have both a wah and an envelope filter. Sort of two wahs, one manual and one automatic. I don’t use them at the same time.
Bill, tgo
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Hendrix is known as using wha half-open to fine-tune his fuzz tone, so there are some products to fill that niche, like:
https://www.fulltone.com/products/custom-shop-wahfull (https://www.fulltone.com/products/custom-shop-wahfull)
or
https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/csp030-7-10137-09541-0.do (https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/csp030-7-10137-09541-0.do)
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I seem to remember reading in an interview Stevie Ray Vaughan talking about taping two wahs together and using them at the same time!
That's not what you're talking about but I had to mention it!
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In my more out-there daydreaming, I have considered that (could I but afford a Series guitar) I would need to rig the guts of Weeping Demon 2 wahs on one pedal, so they could be set for each p/up.
Peter
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I seem to remember reading in an interview Stevie Ray Vaughan talking about taping two wahs together and using them at the same time!
That's not what you're talking about but I had to mention it!
That's just showing off.... hahaha
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I've always thought taping a wah to each foot, a bit of reverb...would make for a
fun bit of choreography.
(Bell bottom jeans mandatory ;D )