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Location: Vermont USA | Well to start off with does anyone use a wah pedal? And which is better a wah pedal like a crybaby or a auto wah like a boss AW-3?
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Location: GA USA | I have a Digitech RP200, which has both. Years ago I had a DOD Envelope Filter (Autowah). I think if it's one or the other, you would prefer the wah pedal over the auto wah. It just sounds more like the guitar is singing/crying. An autowah is kind of like one of those doing doing jaw harps.
Not familiar with the Boss though. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I have two multis with auto wahs, one that can be switched to operate manually with the expression pedal, and a Cry Baby 535Q with the tone selections. I prefer the Cry Baby. It runs on 18v so you'll need a separate power feed on the board, assuming, of course, that your other pedals are 9v or 12v. The Cry Baby is built like a tank and always available on the Bay. |
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Location: NJ | if you are into jerry garcia you want an autowah.
if you are into clapton cream era you want a crybaby or vox wah |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | If your foot is co-ordinated a manual wah is always better cause you control the sound.
I have a Cry-baby with the much desired stack-of-dimes inductor that might be available.
Supposed to go to Damon but I haven't heard status lately. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Lets not forget the T-Wah...
I forget which is which between the "Auto" and the "T" but one is a consistent Wah, wah, wah, while the other changes based on attack. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I have as Cry Baby. It's gold and looks good sitting on the shelf. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I bet it sounds good when your looking at it too! |
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Location: NJ | The shelf SOUNDS cool when you push on the pedal, too! . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | They are two different things.
Auto-wah is very cool in of itself.
Cry baby is cool, too, when played by someone who knows what they are doing.
I now live without a wah. I say, buy one, then buy the other, then trade them with a friend for another pedal once you get bored. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Also, Al's description is pretty good. |
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Location: Burbank | I have always thought of a envelope filter or follower as a backwards wah rather than an auto-wah. It sounds more like "aaou" than "wah". |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was a birthday present from Jim Dunlop. At the time he said there were only 3 other gold ones, Buddy, Eric and Stevie. Not a bad crowd but I bet their shelves don't sound as good. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Buddy Ebsen, Eric Stoltz, and Stevie Nicks..... |
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Location: Utah | Buddy Ebsen is a sure thing, but Eric Stoltz? Beal probably meant Eric Estrada. |
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Wah or auto wah