After using envelope filters for years I recently got a wah pedal - the Cry Baby Bass Mini. It’s a good wah effect and I’d be totally happy with it but for the fact that when you take your foot off the pedal it springs into toe up position. I’d really like to find a bass wah that allows the user to leave the pedal in a cocked wah position, ie. it stays where you put it.
Any recommendations gratefully received as I know very little about wah pedals and even less about the bass versions. Is it necessary to get a bass specific version for example? Thanks.
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Geezer used a Tychobrahe wah which, IIRC, was originally Tony Iommi’s spare so a regular, if not typical, wah. He has a signature Cry Baby now, reading about it the design blends in some of the clean signal so it doesn’t cut out the bass end,I think the Tychobrahe has a wider sweep than a typical wah so that would also have had more bass end I guess.
Cliff seems to have used a Morley wah and there is a signature wah-fuzz that bears his name now.
And if you only want it for the cocked position there are pedals that do that without having to actually have a wah. The Magnetic Effects Midphoria V2 is like that plus you can blend in your clean tone which sounds like a big bonus for bass.
@Magnetic_Effects how is it on bass?
You can finetune them by adjusting the amount of light that can reach the photocell.
Funky wahs.
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Thank you for all your suggestions.
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By far the best, and I’ve had dozens of them.
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