GazWills Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) hey. so has anyone got any experience with fixed wah / fixed filter pedals on bass? there seem to be a few out there, and this one seems to do the job: [url="http://www.rocktron.com/sweet-spot.html"]http://www.rocktron....sweet-spot.html[/url] wilson effects and keeley also make similar pedals. I basically want something that is the equivalent of setting the start and stop filter notches on a micro synth to the same frequency, and moving them up and down to set the filter... This pedal, plus the keeley, have 'bass' settings so I presume should sound good on bass, but there are no bass demos on the net, so has anyone used one, or something similar? I'm not interested in envelope filters, or wah pedals, just something where i can set the frequency of the filter with a knob!! (looking for sculpting synth/fuzz tones, as opposed to 'funk') cheers Edited March 2, 2014 by GazWills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerster135 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 The Moog LPF and Iron Ether Xerograph do this, if you take the Envelope right down you can move the Cutoff to the desired frequency. I often use this in songs with the verb, chorus and whammy, for those Boards of Canada moments! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Moot prob overkill for my needs... IE not operational at present are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerster135 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Fair call on the Moog, it is also MASSIVE! The static filter sounds great and is really useful though...Don't know about IE, but I've seen a couple of Xeros pop up on here and other forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 The Moog is a fantastic sounding filter. I have it & use the expression pedal to control the cutoff & also have a control on my bass to adjust the auto follower if I decide I want some funk in a song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) moog does look great, but does so much more than I need or would want to use, normal envelope filter sounds don't interest me at all... I may just pull the trigger on one of these fixed wah pedals and see! Edited March 2, 2014 by GazWills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) not sure which to go for though, so far I've found: keeley nova wah rocktron sweet spot daredevil pedals atomic cock jekeko wah [size=3][color=#333333][font=Trebuchet,]MXR KFK Q Zone Fixed Dunlop [/font][/color][/size] [color=#333333][font=Trebuchet,]wilson effects fixed [/font][/color][font="Trebuchet, Trebuchet MS"][color="#333333"][size=3][b]wah[/b][/size][/color][/font] Edited March 2, 2014 by GazWills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elephantgrey Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 A static wah pedal would be a band pass filter right? Or maybe a formant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) not sure - basically like having a wah pedal fixed in position.. Edited March 2, 2014 by GazWills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elephantgrey Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) acording to the internets "What a wah does is clear - it is either a bandpass filter or an overcoupled lowpass filter that exhibits a resonant peak just at its lowpass rolloff frequency." So any BPF or LPF with a high ressonence (or ressonance control) should hit what you want. Edit: the movement of this is what causes the voul like sounds, which is why i thought that it might be a formant. Edited March 2, 2014 by elephantgrey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethFlatlands Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I think if you have a Line 6 M5 pedal but no expression pedal then you can just select the frequency with the control. Plenty of models to choose from too so it might be worth a look, although a nice analogue pedal would probably sound better in the long run, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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