Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal

Re:Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal by seanhunter on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:05PM (#32966527)

One thing to note about a wah-wah pedal[1] if you ever want to simulate it in software is that if I understand it correctly it’s a parametric equalizer and when you wobble the peddle you are affecting the Q (bandwidth) of the equalization. You can hear this for yourself if you use a normal mixing desk, just play something, set a reasonable boost to some mid frequency on the parametric eq and wobble the Q backwards and forwards. You basically get the effect of the pedal.

[1] And it has to be a “wah-wah”, not “wah”.

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Re:Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal by camtarn on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:10PM (#32966989)

This is incorrect.

When you move the wah pedal, you're moving the cutoff of the filter, not the Q. The Q is fixed.

You're also incorrect about the name. Just 'wah' is perfectly acceptable.

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Re:Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal by brudgers on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:31PM (#32967132)

Wikipedia has it as “wha-wha pedal.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah_pedal

Because of the Wha-Wha (or Wa-Wa) effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah_(music)

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Re:Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal by dahart on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:17PM (#32967804)

All true, but Wikipedia is just a reference, not an authority, right? “Wah” and “Wah Wah” are both fine. I assume the “Wha-Wha” spelling you used is autocorrect or accident?

Shopping online it looks to me like “Wah pedal” is more popular than “Wah-Wah pedal”. Here’s a pile of examples of guitarists using “Wah pedal”: https://www.sweetwater.com/c976--Wah_and_Filter_Pedals https://www.guitarcenter.com/Wah-Filter-Effects-Pedals.gc https://www.guitarworld.com/features/best-wah-pedals https://www.bestreviews.guide/guitar-wah-pedals https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-best-wah-pedals

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Re:Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal by camtarn on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:33AM (#32971693)

Literally the first sentence of your first link:

"A wah-wah pedal, or simply wah pedal"

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Re:Plug a guitar in your C64 and use it as a wah pedal by wkdneidbwf on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:51PM (#32967297)

> And it has to be a “wah-wah”, not “wah”.

this is just not true. guitarists regularly call it either. i hear it called a “wah” more often these days than “wah-wah”.

anyone will clearly understand and not look at funny if you say “wah pedal”

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