Subject: Re: [LAU] Auto-Wah and Clav... not quite

From: Michal Seta <mis@...> · Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 8:10 pm

Hi Ken,
Have you tried ecasound?

Here you will find some auto-wah presets (this is what google came up

with but I believe that file is installed by default with ecasound).

http://cvs.seul.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sound/ecasound/effect...
I used it on this song here:

http://creazone.ca/snd/mangermanger.mp3
I guess I tweaked it to my needs but it's been so long ago...
./MiS
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Ken Restivo wrote:

quoted text> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:25:49AM -0600, Ernie Dulanowsky wrote:

>> What about using separate envelope follower and filter plugins to make your

>> own auto-wah ?

>>

>> cheers,

>> ernie

>>

>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Ken Restivo  wrote:

>>

>> > For several years I've lusted away over the Clavinet-through-Auto-Wah

>> > sound: the Stevie Wonder sound (also used notably by Herbie Hancock,

>> > Medeski, Martin and Wood, and others).

>> >

>> > The problem is that either the LADSPA auto-wah plugin doesn't quite cut it,

>> > or the Clav soundfont I found on Hammersound several years ago doesn't have

>> > enough dynamic range to really make the thing "wah" in any noticeable way.

>> >

>> > Am I doing something wrong here, or is the plugin not quite the best

>> > implementation, and if so, are there any better ones? Likewise with Clavinet

>> > soundfonts too.

>> >

>

>

> Hmm, thanks. Well after digging into it a bit, it seems as though a proper "wah" effect is an LPF with a resonant peak at the rolloff point:

>

> http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/wahpedl/wahped.htm

>

> Apparently very easy to do in hardware (2 transistors, couple caps, and an inductor), but I'm not sure where I'd find a LADSPA plugin with this particular frequency response characteristic.

>

> Looks like Rakarrack has a wah, and "alien wah" (from Zyn?) and an auto-wah of its own. I'll try those instead.

>

> -ken

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