Autowah/Envelope Filter - bought one but humming problem...

Hattigol

See later post...

JezWynd

Boss TW-1 Touch Wah (the original, before it changed to T-Wah)?

lento

I have an MXR bass envelope filter that is no longer needed

merlin

I have a 5 Leaf Audio Wonderlove and a Sonuus Wahoo that will do pretty much anything in the wah department that you can think of. Both for sale...

Kebabkid

If you need a tuner and a couple of other effects as well as a choice of some decent auto-wah and filter fx, look at the Zoom MS- 50 or used Zoom MS-70 CDR and download the free update to get a lot of the sounds of the MS-50, which includes the auto wahs. 

Used, they can be had for £50

poopot

How’s about daFunk?

It’s a clone of the “Mutron 3” with a couple of bonus features over the original... this now has a master volume and true bypass (the originals gain effected the bypass circuit).

has the correct VTL5C3 vactrols (which are no longer made!!!!!)





Think 70’s Stevie wonder and a bit of bootsie and you’re in the right ballpark...

Dirty demo here:

https://youtu.be/sbprXowbnSc

Hattigol

Thanks folks. Now sorted. Well kind of.
Bought an EHX Riddle Q Balls. After some tweaking, it sounds great.
But....there's an issue. It hums like a bastard swarm of wasps. Suspect it's due to my power supply being fairly close under the board. 
Don't really want it off-board. I'm hopeless electrically so can't really open it up for any mods.
Any other suggestions? Not sure I can live with the hum...

poopot

Hattigol said:

Thanks folks. Now sorted. Well kind of.
Bought an EHX Riddle Q Balls. After some tweaking, it sounds great.
But....there's an issue. It hums like a bastard swarm of wasps. Suspect it's due to my power supply being fairly close under the board. 
Don't really want it off-board. I'm hopeless electrically so can't really open it up for any mods.
Any other suggestions? Not sure I can live with the hum...

What power supply? 

Hattigol

T Rex Fuel Tank.

poopot

Have you got a separate ps you could try? I have an ehx pedal on my board that buzzes like mad if I use anything other than a separate ps. I have fully isolated outputs on my main ps but even tho they are isolated it still buzzes...

Hattigol

I have. Will report back. 

JezWynd

Did it ship with a Power supply? If yes then try using it. I've found some ehx very fussy when it comes to power.

Hattigol

Tried it with the power supply it came with and guess what - the hum is gone! 
Thanks guys. 
Would rather not have an extra power supply trailing across the board but hey, it's way better than the hum so will live with it...

Hattigol

Unless someone can recommend a different one that does the same job and won't insist on its own power supply?

poopot

Hattigol said:

Unless someone can recommend a different one that does the same job and won't insist on its own power supply?

Easiest way is to mount a power strip in set your board and run the full tank from one socket and the ehx from the other....


or buy daFunk

Dominic

Yes the mad professor snow white is the ultimate auto wah in all respects