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Topic: 'Boo-wah' button
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Chris DeBarge
Member From: Boston, Mass
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posted 16 December 2000 04:16 AM
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Speedy used a Bigsby pedal to get doo wahs ...End of story.
Ah yes, but I've seen a video of him where he is clearly spinning the tone knob with his right hand to get the boo-wah effect. Of course the pedal is much easier, I'm gonna continue this post on the Electronics page; got some things to talk about regarding the volume/tone pedal. |
Adam
Member From: Seattle,WA
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posted 16 December 2000 10:29 AM
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Thanks Chris,I stand corrected.Doesn't anybody remember the thread on the Bigsby chatter button?I seem to recall a Bigsby owner describing the wiring of the button on their instrument. |
Gene Jones
Member From: Oklahoma City, OK USA
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posted 16 December 2000 11:46 AM
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OK!!!!![This message was edited by Gene Jones on 16 December 2000 at 11:58 AM.] |
Joe Delaronde
Member From: Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada
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posted 17 December 2000 10:15 PM
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This ia an email I recieved from Speedy;Subject: Chatter
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:35:44 -0700
From: "Speedy West"
Organization: MailExcite (http://www.mailexcite.com:80)
To: "Joe Delaronde" Hi again, Joe. I finally figured out what you were referring to about a switch at the end of my end plate. That's my treble and bass tone control. It has to be on treble to get the chatter. All my guitars. since 1948, have had the tone control installed in that location, because I can work it faster and besides it makes a good show. I have another email, if I can find it, with Speedy explaining how he does the bar chatter and how he discovered it.....Joe
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Billy Jones
Member From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
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posted 17 December 2000 11:45 PM
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Speedy's tone control was at the end of his guitar. It was free enough that you could spin it. The fender custom guitars also had a very free tone control. You just had to flick them from bass to treble or back. As far as the bar chatter goes, Speedy would stiffen his left arm and let the nerves take over .. try it.
How do I know this? He told me.
The boo-wah switch has to be a micro switch button or you get a lot of contact noise. It is just a capacitor from switch to ground. you can also wire it through your tone control to give you variable depth. No matter how fast or slow you push this switch it always switches at the same speed.(fast)
This is a fact. Hope this solves the problem.
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Pharaoh
Member From: Raleigh, NC, USA
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posted 18 December 2000 06:43 AM
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Straight from the horses mouth, as it were. The great thing about this forum is that you can learn just about anything you want to if you ask the right questions.I've got some prototype boxes built, passive and active, and I was hoping to have sound samples posted by last weekend, unfortunately I've run into all kinds of problems here at work and also with my family and wasn't able to get the time to do it. I am going to have some sound samples of the passive box posted tonight and the active box (it's sort of a semi-automatic wah-wah) posted by Wednesday, I hope. Thanks to everybody on this thread for all their insight. Matt Farrow ------------------
Matt Farrow
'74 Emmons GS10 / '72 Kustom Sidewinder JBL
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