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Bass Whammy Petition!
- Thread starter Charlatan_001
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Fair enough. The only one in RATM that uses the whammy is morello, and its the guitar whammy, not the bass one. Timmy C has never used one that I've ever heard of.
I knew he didn't mean Tool. I don't think "screechy rap-metal" would be used by even the most ardent Tool basher. There are many more derogatory descriptions I have heard, but that would be a new one
I knew he didn't mean Tool. I don't think "screechy rap-metal" would be used by even the most ardent Tool basher. There are many more derogatory descriptions I have heard, but that would be a new one
Hmm... Maynard Keenan rapping...
...[shudder]
There's something inherently wrong about someone beatboxing rhythms or freestyle-rapping lyrics to a Tool song.
Hmm... Maynard Keenan rapping...
...[shudder]
There's something inherently wrong about someone beatboxing rhythms or freestyle-rapping lyrics to a Tool song.
If someone did it to Sad But True, why couldn't it be done to...oh, I don't know...a loop of 5th -> OCt part of Disposition....
Speaking of rapping and Metallica...
Listen to Bloodhound Gang's "Mope". It's a hilarious song (like most of their stuff) with a familiar bass solo looping in the chorus... it might ring a bell.
The original Whammy, Bass Whammy and Whammy II (those acknowledged as 'the good ones', in other words) contain patented technology from a Canadian company called IVL. Unless the Digitech guys re-license that (unlikely, seeing how unceremoniously they dropped it) or write something better themselves (unlikely, seeing what an abomination the XP-100 was) a reissue doesn't make much sense, sadly.
CrashClint
I Play Bass therefore I Am
Yontz Sucre in Raleigh, NC has perfected IMHO the best bass wah. He as tweaked a Cry Baby Wah to work with bass and they sound great. Here is the link to his site. He is also one heck of an amp tech!
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- Jul 8, 2007
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- Lead Designer, Zeibek Boutique Pedals
#565
They are not just different, they have nothing to do with each other
A wah pedal is as similar to a gas pedal, as it is to whammy.
#565
They are not just different, they have nothing to do with each other
To some a Wah IS a g.a.s. pedal, to others, a whammy
But a Whammy can do that "engine revving" sound, too, if set properly. So it's not THAT different from a gas pedal. Or maybe even a brake pedal. 
- Jul 8, 2007
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But a Whammy can do that "engine revving" sound, too, if set properly. So it's not THAT different from a gas pedal. Or maybe even a brake pedal.
To some a Wah IS a g.a.s. pedal, to others, a whammy
So true, so true...
Rage are much better than Tool
I cannot deny that RATM are screechy rap metal, but it is good screechy rap metal, and I like it.
Tool are OK, but not worth reissuing a whole pedal over, just for one setting.
They might add the 5th/8ve setting to a new whammy though. They would sell one to all of the Tool fans who are 'making do' with the WH-IV.
Except that they don't need to make another whammy, because the WH-IV has decent tracking, and the people who already have one wouldn't rush out and buy the WH-V, because it wouldn't be enough of an improvement on the old model.
So Digitech won't pour money into R&D into a new whammy that they don't need to make.
Don't think it is going to happen.
