Wah recommendations

mike_l

Kebabkid said:

Can anyone recommend one that sounds good on BOTH cleans (funky/quacky) and dirty sounds (Thin Lizzy/ Slash/ Hendrix). I've never found one that excelled at both.

Weeping Demon, and adjust the settings to taste

Kebabkid

Thanks guys and I've been through a bunch of wahs that just don't do it for me.
Re:The Envelope Filter, good suggestion and that's why I mention the vintage MXR one so much as that's something that's on my wish list. Tried quite a few of those too and apart from the Guyatone Wah Rocker, I can't get the smooth quack that the MXR has -

ThePrettyDamned

Kebabkid;105164" said:

Thanks guys and I've been through a bunch of wahs that just don't do it for me.

Re:The Envelope Filter, good suggestion and that's why I mention the vintage MXR one so much as that's something that's on my wish list. Tried quite a few of those too and apart from the Guyatone Wah Rocker, I can't get the smooth quack that the MXR has -

I have an ehx qtron which I could be persuaded to part with as my style is more rawk than it was. If you're interested, pm me. Otherwise, they're fantastic and, in my opinion, the best of the envelope filters I've tried, with some awesome settings.

You can get some weird underwater synth sounds from it, if you pile on gain and run the envelope backwards on lo pass... Very cool.

Kebabkid

Thanks TPD but not for me - I've tried a lot of them, most recently the Carl Martin Optical Envelop Filter, and the MXR is the one. It's just a case of waiting for one to come up in the UK (loads in the US, but overpriced).
Ta,
KK

bertie

yeah yeah eee heee yeaaaahhh     

 auto wah/env filter always reminds me of the solo on   Edie Brickell "what I am"  -   but it just isnt wah, it isnt "right"

ThePrettyDamned

Kebabkid;105363" said:

Thanks TPD but not for me - I've tried a lot of them, most recently the Carl Martin Optical Envelop Filter, and the MXR is the one. It's just a case of waiting for one to come up in the UK (loads in the US, but overpriced).

Ta,

KK

Dass cool. I never tried that one!

Hope you find one, I didn't realise it existed until today...

Kebabkid

Love the sound on Edie Brickell's "What I am" and also on Odyssey's "Back to my roots"

Axe_meister

I have 2 on my board.
A Vox (does not have a buffer) at the beginning of the chain and a cry baby (with buffer) at the end.
The Vox I modified a little changing the Q and thegain to give it a more vocal like quality.
Sometimes you need wah before your gain structure sometimes afterwards.

JolietJake

Well, Santa's been and left me a Custom Audio Electronics MC404 and I have to say I'm completely blown away by the quality of the sound straight out of the box. Not even tried chaning the inductor or boost or the stuff  inside yet. Better than any wah I've used in the past. Going to have some fun with this one. Thanks for all the information/help. 

not_the_dj

Nice one /\ I love mine (hence I recommend it to anyone who asks "what wah?"

Enjoy.