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Double Wah

#5
Tim Crommerford first started out in Rage Against The Machine. He used wah a fair amount in his songs, and the rest of the band is pretty good, too. Check 'em out.

He's currently in the band Audioslave, which unfortunately isn't that good. He does have some decent basslines in there though, too.

And no, you're not a fool :D (though he is quite a well-known rock bassist, so now you know about him!)

-Dash
 
#6
formerly of rage against the machine now the bassist for audioslave. his song that has the best wah sound IMO is mic check off rage's battle of los angilas.

has anyone ever tryed having one going heal - toe while the other is going toe - heal??? i think that would be interesting

lowsound
 
#7
Dash Rantic said:
Tim Crommerford first started out in Rage Against The Machine. He used wah a fair amount in his songs, and the rest of the band is pretty good, too. Check 'em out.

He's currently in the band Audioslave, which unfortunately isn't that good. He does have some decent basslines in there though, too.

And no, you're not a fool :D (though he is quite a well-known rock bassist, so now you know about him!)

-Dash
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audioslave = awsome except for chris

lowsound

ps audioslave is the same band as rage, just with a different singer
 
#9
iamlowsound said:
audioslave = awsome except for chris

lowsound

ps audioslave is the same band as rage, just with a different singer
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audioslave is nothing like rage against the machine. sorry, but rage is my favorite band and although audioslave has the same members, they sound COMPLETELY different... cept for "Cochise", hahah.

anyways, Timmy C. used two wahs in his rage days too with a peice of plywood on top to control both at the same time. he uses that on "Calm Like A Bomb". one of the 105q's Q control is set pretty high and the other one is set almost all the way down

ps... RAGE kicks ass, audioslave sucks
 
#10
That's one crazy assed sound

Always assumed that cool sound was the guitar :scowl: as the last time I listend to the Matrix: Reloaded album was when the movie was in theaters :eek: , long before I took up Bass (or Guitar).

Seems I do listen to music differently now that I also play it :smug:
 
#11
Yeah, Calm Like A Bomb's Wah sounds great...Tim uses 3 Amps, one for clean sound (runs all the time) and he uses a custom amp selector to kick in the two other amps, one for mild distortion, one for the big, harsh ****. His clean channel has no effects (obviously) and his other two channels has a Wah in each chain leading up to it (nailed together), letting him sweep simultaneously on each channel.
 
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Higgie said:
Yeah, Calm Like A Bomb's Wah sounds great...Tim uses 3 Amps, one for clean sound (runs all the time) and he uses a custom amp selector to kick in the two other amps, one for mild distortion, one for the big, harsh ****. His clean channel has no effects (obviously) and his other two channels has a Wah in each chain leading up to it (nailed together), letting him sweep simultaneously on each channel.
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yes...i think you are the first to point this fact out, Tim doesn't use his 2 wahs inline, but in parallel.
 
#15
I use 2 wahs :-D

I got a splitter made to the specs of the one timmy c uses for a 3 amp setup to have optimal control of my overdriven/distorted tone...it works AWESOME btw...i had 1 dunlop wah already so as soon as i got the splitter, i got a 2nd and tried the old timmy c trick and it sounds REALLY good - 1 wah for each distortion amp...ive done it w/ jsut 1 but it was lacking...the only downside is it took me a while to find the perfect Q setting on the wahs to compliment the distortion tones (1 is very midrangey, and the other adds mroe mids and some treble bite too)...if u wanna run 2-3 amps, i dont see y not experimenting w/ 2 wahs, but if ur running just 1, its not going to sound too great (2 wahs in series rather than parallel) if i had soundclips of it, id post it, but i dont (sorry...)
 
#16
IcedEarthWOM said:
Then maybe I'll be the first *ego fills the room* :smug: :smug: :smug: :smug:
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you could...one usable method could be use one as a filter and the next one as a wah, or vice versa, but i still think doing two wahs in series would be to big of a sweep to sound good, but i haven't heard it, so maybe it actually sounds awesome...idk..i'd be glad to do the research if i had two wahs!
 
#18
superbassman2000 said:
they say thats the way that human speech occurs, so it would maybe give the same effect as this?
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From my glance at your link their setup seems to work the two formants (bands being passed by the wahs) together. The cool thing about using two wahs in series indepandantly is that you could actually mimic vowels as they are spoken. If one had a sweep from roughly 100-1400Hz and the other went from around 500-4000Hz then all the vowels would be within your range. Just add a volume pedal and grow another foot, and you could sound just like a very strange person! For that matter, I guess you'd really be a pretty strange guy.
 
#20
superbassman2000 said:
that sounds very interesting

a volume pedal wouldn't be hard, you could just set it right next to your wah, and do it Tim Commerford's way with the piece of wood over both so you can control both...that'd be kinda cool!

someone should try this!
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By next weekend (hopfully) :smug: !!!!!!!!!!
 

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