FuzzWah
by Rob Jackson
Fuzz and wah pedal pair with auto, manual and MIDI pedal control
Jan 13, 202647 minWatch on YouTube ↗
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- 8:55Why the amp sim belongs after the wah rather than in front of it
- 25:30Fuzz section: standard and vintage modes, skew, gate, input and output gain
- 27:55Auto wah running on the snappy open preset
- 29:09MIDI learn mapping an M-Audio volume pedal to the wah frequency
- 31:26Auto sense, resonance, boost and smoothing, including reverse sweep
- 33:16Voicing switched between low, classic, extended and high
What it does
A fuzz and a wah in one AUv3, usable together or one at a time. The fuzz has standard and vintage modes, a skew control for clipping symmetry, input and output gain and its own noise gate. The wah offers four voicings, a resonance and boost, and runs in manual mode driven by MIDI, or in auto mode where an envelope follower with adjustable sense sweeps the filter, forwards or in reverse.
In the demo
Jade runs it into Rob Jackson’s Analogy amp in AUM, first as a fuzz with no cab, then with one, then as a wah on its own. She MIDI learns an M-Audio volume pedal to the wah frequency on camera, and compares that against the auto mode on clean and high-gain tones.
Worth knowing
There is no cabinet or amp stage inside it, so it wants an amp sim after it. The gate makes it usable as a standalone noise gate too.
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