Wah-Wah
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Wah-Wah
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The wah-wah effect is closely associated with a particular effect on guitar music. Although the effect had been used before the 1960s, its importance as a guitar sound only emerged during the late 1960s. One of the most widely used units is the Dunlop [1] Cry Baby foot pedal [[2]].
A similar effect to wah-wah is produced by an envelope following filter such as those produced by MXR and Musitronics [3]. This modulates the sweep on a band pass or low pass filter, dependant on the amplitude of the signal fed into it. As such, it is possible to achieve a fast changing wah effect which would be impossible to mimic using a wah-wah foot pedal. A variation on this effect is auto-wah, where the sweep is controlled by an LFO, making it modulate at a consistent speed rather than in response to the playing. The envelope following filter is most notably used in funk, commonly on the bass and clavinet.
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| Date | Track | Artist | Producer | Engineer | Label | Notes | Media Hyperlink | ||||||
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| 1968 | Voodoo Child | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix (Co-producer Chas Chandler) | Eddie Kramer | MCA | Wah-wah at beginning of song | Live performance [4] | ||||||
| 1968 (released 1969) | Cloud Nine | The Temptations | Norman Whitfield [5] | Gordy (Motown) | |||||||||
| 1971 | Theme from Shaft | Issac Hayes | Issac Hayes | MGM (Movie theme) | Edited performance [6] | ||||||||
| 1973 | Higher Ground | Stevie Wonder | Wonder, Margouleff & Cecil | Mowtown | Envelope Following Filter on clavinet | 1995 BBC performance [7] | |||||||
| 1975 | Chocolate City | Parliament | George Clinton | Cassablanca | Envelope Following Filter on Bootsy Collin's bass | ||||||||
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