Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Deeping Wemon (review)
- Thread starter chips
- Start date
No worries.
I feel its my duty to inform the public of this great product, after reading things on here where people are really unsure about it.
Reep the Weep.... or something.. i dont know....
I feel its my duty to inform the public of this great product, after reading things on here where people are really unsure about it.
Reep the Weep.... or something.. i dont know....
IcedEarthWOM said:Dyslexia.... affects 9 out of 10 Balk Tassers
I think you meant to say 10 out of 9 Talk Bassers.
Har!
Matt
P.S. Great review!
Just got my WD today. Played it for about an hour here at home.
Initial impressions:
Very sturdy feeling/looking unit. Made mostly out of metal but not too heavy. Looks like it'll hold up very well. Also not as big as my Morley's so may give an extra bit of room on my board for something else!
Manual is kinda tough to read at first, they print all different languages together...not a big deal though, got the hang of it pretty quick. Knobs on the side pop out for adjustment then push back in which I think is really cool..knobs get broken off all the time in live shows.
Plugged it in with a passive P bass into a 60 watt combo amp and began tweaking the knobs and playing with the pedal. I found a setting I liked and just started jamming and a/b'ing it with the pedal fully depressed and then completely off. To my ears....there was NO noticable loss of low end whatsoever. Very surprising...this is, with the frequency knob all the way clockwise (bass full on) however it worked!
The only thing I don't like too much, but I feel sure I will develop the memory to get used to it, is that the sweep isn't very wide. Both in sound and in feel when my foot is rocking the unit back and forth. It seems to have a little more room than the Dunlop's but less than the Morley's (which I am used to).
All in all, initially, I am VERY impressed by the sound and even more specifically, the retention of what sounds like ALL of my low end with the pedal on. I will try it out in a full blown rehearsal setting in a couple of days but right now things look....or sound......very good.
Initial impressions:
Very sturdy feeling/looking unit. Made mostly out of metal but not too heavy. Looks like it'll hold up very well. Also not as big as my Morley's so may give an extra bit of room on my board for something else!
Manual is kinda tough to read at first, they print all different languages together...not a big deal though, got the hang of it pretty quick. Knobs on the side pop out for adjustment then push back in which I think is really cool..knobs get broken off all the time in live shows.
Plugged it in with a passive P bass into a 60 watt combo amp and began tweaking the knobs and playing with the pedal. I found a setting I liked and just started jamming and a/b'ing it with the pedal fully depressed and then completely off. To my ears....there was NO noticable loss of low end whatsoever. Very surprising...this is, with the frequency knob all the way clockwise (bass full on) however it worked!
The only thing I don't like too much, but I feel sure I will develop the memory to get used to it, is that the sweep isn't very wide. Both in sound and in feel when my foot is rocking the unit back and forth. It seems to have a little more room than the Dunlop's but less than the Morley's (which I am used to).
All in all, initially, I am VERY impressed by the sound and even more specifically, the retention of what sounds like ALL of my low end with the pedal on. I will try it out in a full blown rehearsal setting in a couple of days but right now things look....or sound......very good.
glas you like it. I havent played the Morleys, but with some tweaking i thought there were some rather large sweeps possible
great review! i m planning to get my own WD7 next month, currently i m buliding my own hand made loop selecter and big muff and some kinda delay and some kinda comp. hope they'll work well when bundled together
adding a whole heap of random effects + wah is awsome.
i ran an EHX octave > marshall guvnor > big muff > demon. Whoa, my neighbours head imploded
i ran an EHX octave > marshall guvnor > big muff > demon. Whoa, my neighbours head imploded
nice!
Ive got for a more subtle sound these days, for more of a growling sound, instead of my old aggressive sound.
Sorry for the late reply razor, but i didnt get an email saying some one replied
At the moment im in Normal mode, Lo control is at full, Q is at 11 o'clock, and volume is about 11-12 o'clock, and the fine tuning for toe position is at 9 o'clock. Sounds more smooth and even, especially with some od/fuzz/dist.
Ive got for a more subtle sound these days, for more of a growling sound, instead of my old aggressive sound.
Sorry for the late reply razor, but i didnt get an email saying some one replied
At the moment im in Normal mode, Lo control is at full, Q is at 11 o'clock, and volume is about 11-12 o'clock, and the fine tuning for toe position is at 9 o'clock. Sounds more smooth and even, especially with some od/fuzz/dist.
Has anybody played a Deeping Wemon compared to a Dunlop Wimebag Dah? I loved my Bimedag pedal (had to sell to fund the 506) and in the summer I'm planning on getting another wah, so how do the two pedals compare? Users of both, which would you say is more metal? Which goes better with distortion?
I've used both though I ended up with the Dime CFH after my Demon broke. From what I've read here and elsewhere, I think now that I just got a dud.
The impression that I got from the Demon was that it was more of a growly type of wah. It can keep the bottom end on it's own with the low control, and being able to fine-tune the two ranges is a great feature as well. It can also operate switchless or switched, though the switch is on the side. I can actually imagine that being quite useful, for example: keeping the expression pedal in one place (or back all the time) and not having to disturb it's position to turn it on/off. You can adjust the delay time for the switchless mode using an outside knob, and if you have a coin, you can adjust the spring tension and pedal friction quite easily.
The CFH's main sound is that of a scream, compared to the Demon's growl. It does tend to loose some bottom end but that can be EQed back in (from the amp, or another effect). The advantage I like about the CFH is the fact that it has 6 heel frequencies (all listed in Hz, in the manual), plus you can separatly adjust the pedal's sweep range. It's probably a little harder, physically, to adjust the friction on this pedal, though I've never actually adjusted mine.
Both have Q and volume adjustment's so that there is no volume loss when turning on the effect.
If you want to hear some serious fuzz/wha listen to: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
It's 14.1MB/10 min's long, but it should give you some idea of the CFH's sound. Note though, that it's Fuzz -> Wah -> More Fuzz. The first fuzz is a COSM model of the Big Muff Pi, and the 2nd fuzz is an EHX English Muff'n. On the model the gain is cranked, and on the Muff'n every thing is cranked including the bass, cus both the 1st fuzz and the wah lose bottom.
Hope that this, in some small way, helps
QUICK EDIT: hahaha, didn't realize that youl'd already owned one
Anyway, the info will probably help someone, but I'm sure the reviews of the Demon will help you compare. The bassic Q to ask is: Do I want a deep, growly wah (Demon), or do I want a more high-end, scream-like one (CFH)?
The impression that I got from the Demon was that it was more of a growly type of wah. It can keep the bottom end on it's own with the low control, and being able to fine-tune the two ranges is a great feature as well. It can also operate switchless or switched, though the switch is on the side. I can actually imagine that being quite useful, for example: keeping the expression pedal in one place (or back all the time) and not having to disturb it's position to turn it on/off. You can adjust the delay time for the switchless mode using an outside knob, and if you have a coin, you can adjust the spring tension and pedal friction quite easily.
The CFH's main sound is that of a scream, compared to the Demon's growl. It does tend to loose some bottom end but that can be EQed back in (from the amp, or another effect). The advantage I like about the CFH is the fact that it has 6 heel frequencies (all listed in Hz, in the manual), plus you can separatly adjust the pedal's sweep range. It's probably a little harder, physically, to adjust the friction on this pedal, though I've never actually adjusted mine.
Both have Q and volume adjustment's so that there is no volume loss when turning on the effect.
If you want to hear some serious fuzz/wha listen to: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
It's 14.1MB/10 min's long, but it should give you some idea of the CFH's sound. Note though, that it's Fuzz -> Wah -> More Fuzz. The first fuzz is a COSM model of the Big Muff Pi, and the 2nd fuzz is an EHX English Muff'n. On the model the gain is cranked, and on the Muff'n every thing is cranked including the bass, cus both the 1st fuzz and the wah lose bottom.
Hope that this, in some small way, helps
QUICK EDIT: hahaha, didn't realize that youl'd already owned one
Anyway, the info will probably help someone
, but I'm sure the reviews of the Demon will help you compare. The bassic Q to ask is: Do I want a deep, growly wah (Demon), or do I want a more high-end, scream-like one (CFH)?
