How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
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How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Genuinely curious to see if anybody's ever put multiple wahs together, or if that would just sound completely awful
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
One man's awful is another man's awesome, but I think it would sound kind of unexciting?
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Unless you had 5 feet, it might be rubbish, but I'd love to hear it.

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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
feedbacky oscillating resonant peak most likely.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Thesis: Wahs eat dry mix. Probably wouldn't sound much different from a single wah.
Source: dude who has never used a wah.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Tim C used to (still?) have 2 wahs in series with a board over top to tie the treadles together.
I'll try 3 later on my M9.
I'll try 3 later on my M9.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
gonna sound like a wah
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
it'll sound like AM radio with that many antennas connected at once
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Depends on the kind of wah, mainly the resonance. I imagine it can sound anywhere from a sharp filtered wah to a kind of self oscilating synth like you can achieve with some synth filters. Worth a try.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
I had three Dunlop GCB-95 wahs at one time a few years ago. I checked them to see which one I should keep. Of course I also tried all three at once just for fun. Sounds ... not so good. Unexciting, unspectacular, unusable. Two wahs at the same time sound rubbish already.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
I take your Dream Filtre in that case!UglyCasanova wrote:Source: dude who has never used a wah.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Yeah, this is sort of where I'm at, too (I've only ever used a pair at once but it's kind of meh).Pepe wrote:Sounds ... not so good. Unexciting, unspectacular, unusable. Two wahs at the same time sound rubbish already.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Good idea. I'll try this on my HD500. Could assign the exp pedal to trigger all of them at once.spacelordmother wrote:Tim C used to (still?) have 2 wahs in series with a board over top to tie the treadles together.
I'll try 3 later on my M9.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
I think you'd need at least six feet actually, unless you play sitting down.Dungus wrote:Unless you had 5 feet, it might be rubbish, but I'd love to hear it.
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Re: How dumb would five wahs chained together sound?
Tried it and it sounded mostly bad. Each wah in series adds a further bump to the resonant peak of the one before it resulting in some squelchy madness. There might be some potential there? I dunno, I hate wah.