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Effects That Don't Exist, But Might Sound Cool
- Thread starter caeman
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I'd like to see a wah pedal that works like a regular modulation pedal. you select the speed, width and whatnot and it'd sweep on its own just like a chorus or whatever. do these exist?
There are quite a few that do that. EHX Worm has a "modulated wah" mode, MXR Bass Auto Q and Guyatone Ultron do it. I think the Boss AW-3 does it. Source Audio BEF Pro does it.
Not really an effect per se but a blender/looper where you can control the blend with an expression pedal. So it would have two blend options and a foot switch to change between em - one would be to mix the blend via expression or switch it to a predetermined blend level. But it keeps the volume level the whole time.
I don't know how practical this is but I would love a looping pedal with ridiculous time stretching abilities. Oh and a multiply function.
Maybe in our lifetime, Digi-tech will bring back the Space Station... it was unlike anythimg else out there, almost TOO much amazing stuff in a single pedal.
There really is nothing I want more than a new, upgraded and dependable Space Station. I would easily drop 500 on it without even thinking twice about it. I am always scared to death that my old XP-1000 is going to crap out for good and that would really suck.
About 30 years ago I had an Electro-Harmonix Talking Pedal - a combination vocal formant/auto wah/distortion pedal for guitar that sounded amazing.
The pedal swept between A E I O and U vowel sounds, and the distortion tone was deadly. With the right settings & footwork you could make mind-bending guitar "speeches" in Martian!
I contacted EH a few years ago to ask if it would ever be re-issued, but they said they couldn't because a dual-shaft potentiometer used in it's construction was no longer available from the manufacturer.
The recently issued Talking Machine pedal is a pale shadow of the Talking Pedal, and doesn't even begin to replicate the mind-blowing sonics of the original.
I want to see the original Talking Pedal re-issued, in both guitar and bass versions.
The pedal swept between A E I O and U vowel sounds, and the distortion tone was deadly. With the right settings & footwork you could make mind-bending guitar "speeches" in Martian!
I contacted EH a few years ago to ask if it would ever be re-issued, but they said they couldn't because a dual-shaft potentiometer used in it's construction was no longer available from the manufacturer.
The recently issued Talking Machine pedal is a pale shadow of the Talking Pedal, and doesn't even begin to replicate the mind-blowing sonics of the original.
I want to see the original Talking Pedal re-issued, in both guitar and bass versions.
Also, I'd like one of these that actually performed the function that its name implies..
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I don't think if this already exists, just had a dream about this, so I guess I'm stealing the idea from my subconscious, but what about a pedal that simulates the effect of the neck being fretless. A defretter!
I still have one of those original Talking Pedals -- which btw I got for free 30 years ago! -- and you're right, there's just nothing like it. But I stopped using it regularly after I listened to a recording of a show I did and realized that I was using it on nearly every tune!!!
I want a pitch tracking EQ where I can emphasize the fundamental, 5th, octave, two octaves, etc. for each note that I play. Maybe it would do nothing, but I'd like to try it.
