Reverse Wah [Echoes trick]

[HaveAnArtAttack]

Dutch house with guitars.

YES

[GuitarBlues3]

It doesn't work with a 535Q. :(

[postaldude2250]

That's what I got when I plugged in a wah for the VERY first time

[thedeadliest]

Excellent demostration!!

Do you think I could use the V845 wah?

Thanks :))

[GuitarBoy888]

@thedeadliest

I really don't know... You'll need to try that:)

[Y4Uable]

מגניב בחור!

[notsoaveragejoe93]

Putting it on the neck-mid setting and messing with the tone controls + lots of reverb = awesome.

[snowheyoh85]

the new tom morello :)!!

[rw5791]

sounds like a cop car in heavy traffic.

[Emceetem]

i'm gonna get me a peavey..i forget which peavey but it's all digital has like these 9 stomp boxes...it has perfect clean tone which i'm looking for but it's distortion is not so my "idea" of what a C tuned guitar with never slinkies should sound like....

[evanbuck101]

Sounds fucking awful.

[aidange2]

@evanbuck101 it sounds amazing with a delay/echo

[LinkBulletBill]

changing the pickup does it affect this sound? because of bridge and neck pickup?

[christian8468]

@evildude25 i am. lol

[WARinMYhead1]

haha id never heard of this trick before. there's a lot of potential fun to be had with it! man i really need a wah pedal.

[Cazaq]

Thats called oscilation friend , the zvex fuzz factory has plenty of that :)).

[sporechapters]

u have the exact same set up as me same guitar and same foot pedals lol

[mrwcool]

it burns

[atguitar1990]

Sorry but that made my ears bleed. Interesting idea however. But it was just Reaaaally annoying.

[mikolene97]

so can this work on a crybaby? how do i do it??

[BeastFTW]

@mikolene97 yeah it works, got a crybaby by myself.

1. plug your guitar into the output jack of your wah

2. plug your amp into the input jac of your wah

3. activate the wah

4. control the tone/pitch with the wah, the tone know on your guitar and your pickup switch

enjoy :)

[mikolene97]

Aight! Thanks bud.

[DeryckGuitar]

who do u do this?

[bergaminivideos]

lmao this happened to me by accident at a jazz band concert and totally sucked up my solo but everyone laughed lol

[xx55AC55xx]

what happend how did u do it

[bergaminivideos]

@xx55AC55xx I think I put the amp too close to my guitar

when I was about to do my solo I turned up the amp to crazy levels probably causing feedback

[tellerwaescher88]

bullshit

[kokemomo]

I tried it.

Very interesting. Lol

[ooberpwnage]

rape my ear sockets.

[alecman56]

that was useless

[Shereeeeeeen]

i dont get it...

[chuecco]

haha whis made me laugh

[hahasaidthecar]

I remember doing this when playing around with my Vox pedal back in 1975. It kept me amused! I was intrigued how it worked...

Another interesting (and useful) effect I found was placing a volume pedal after the wah...playing the volume pedal literally reverses the wah effect. A very different sound! I used a Crybaby for that.

[LinkBulletBill]

@hahasaidthecar

what about the volume pedal thing again? interested!

[hahasaidthecar]

@LinkBulletBill try placing the volume pedal ( I use an unbranded, non-powered "swell" pedal) either before the wah or after...memory's not so good! I found this effect by accident...when you depress the volume pedal it changes the direction of the effect, more like an "oww oww" rather than "wah wah." I used the effect during my final gig with a band called Erick in 1993 on a song called "All The Weird Men. " I also used the Crybaby to achieve some quite unusual feedback sounds.

[LinkBulletBill]

@hahasaidthecar

awesome! sad thing is I don't have a swell/volume pedal, gotta buy one.

I got some few tricks up my sleeve too. It's weird though.. :S

[LinkBulletBill]

@hahasaidthecar

btw how do you we depress a volume pedal, if you don't mind me asking :S

[hahasaidthecar]

@LinkBulletBill....sit your pedal in a dark room..no..press it downwards.

[LinkBulletBill]

@hahasaidthecar

sorry, it's just english isn't my mother-tongue language. :S

[Bluesguy92]

he is israeli!!

[drew20ont]

yes it does work with a dunlop pedal, and though the strat is neat because of the 5 way switch, by cycling through the switch positions it will change the tempo and tone, rolling the tone knob slightly can change pitch, its possible to get the same sounds from a les paul, and no it won't blow you're amp

[liamshanley21]

would this work with a Dunlop Crybaby or no?

[WhackaJacka]

yeah but itll blow up ur amp

[liamshanley21]

seriously?

[LinkBulletBill]

@WhackaJacka

your amp can not explode... depending on your amp, but this can not explode on any amp. this trick, feedback and etc cannot break your amp. Why do ppl suppose that? it doesn't make sense?

[VUnit258]

only can the strat electrical board setup will you have that much control right? its hard to control with a les paul

[cath0dez]

To several posters below, this exact effect was used in a song. "Echoes" by Pink Floyd.

[katarzis27]

very cool!

you forgot the delay.

[eplpsp2]

it has it's place, but til i hear it played in a song, i'll just keep thinking it sounds like a dying seagul

[AdamKiyomori]

Listen to Rage Against The Machine's first album... some of those crazy solo's by Tom Morello?

[Baconfish]

Nay, he gets those sounds out of a Digitech Whammy.

[gdeivid]

No, try it and see...

[joethfc]

what? in 1972? i dont think so

[Baconfish]

I meant Morello, not Gilmour. :p

[joethfc]

soz

[skatingasian13]

@eplpsp2 hendrix uses it in the song EXP

[2cita05]

@eplpsp2 ru fckn kidding mate?

echoes?pink floyd?

[L2112Lifz]

@eplpsp2 Dying albatross, actually. Listen to Pink Floyd's Echoes, its prominent with a good amount of delay in the middle section of the song.

[jasonkooy]

How do you get the staccato bits. I have tried this out but cnt seem to get as high in pitch.

[GuitarBoy888]

Fender MIA strat, no killswitch. soon to be "neck on" switch

[TDSUSERS]

Is that a fender? does it have a KillSwitch?

[bigZjujuman]

yeah this would go great in a song

[damo1128]

lol

[MountainDew231767]

how do you plug it in reverse?

[GuitarBoy888]

you plug the input cables to the output jack of the wah, and the output cable to the input jack of the wah.

[Septimius]

Great demo. Thanks.

[ironpenguin94]

That was one of the most ear-piercing sounds I've ever heard in my life. cool though.

[Denis543]

sounded like something bein raped! dont ever do that for a crowd!

[Septimius]

Gilmour of Pink Floyd has done this infront of millions and millions of people in his time, Denis543.

[Denis543]

yea the way he does it! not this guy

[Septimius]

Yeah, but considering 97% of the population of youtube can't tell the difference between playing with soul and emotion and a plain copy of any solo, you've gotta stop and enjoy it when someone's even able to give you an idea of how something is done ;p

agreed.

[Denis543]

true i agree

[Odieandgarfield]

Will doing this be harmful to my wah?

[maximusv1]

No. Not at all.

[Odieandgarfield]

Ok thanks for replying

[micp4130]

aaargh... normally i'm a big fan of both pink floyd and alternative guitarplaying... but that sounded downright awful...

[woowoo186]

first time that happened, i thought my amp was about to catch on fire, lol XD

[FFXGuitar]

THAT THING SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

[GuitarBoy888]

idk - didn't try it.

[RedFenderStrat]

ment too

[GuitarBoy888]

mine is the older [and imo, better] V847.

it has buffered bypass, and so is the V847a.

[RedFenderStrat]

so i can use the new version two?

[RedFenderStrat]

is it the vox847a? because on an website is said you need a wah without true bypass and the description of musicstore sais that the vox 847a is with true bypass.So do you use one with or without true bypass, because yours is working pretty good.

[GuitarBoy888]

depends on your wah. what wah do you have?

[justiniscoolohyea]

when i do it i get no sound at all. how exatly do u do it

[zombieboy9x3]

theres a complete step by step instruction how to get the "seagull effect" on gilmourish (dot-com)

[diegoss]

would u explain what did u do ???? pls!!!

[GuitarBoy888]

I just plugged my Vox V847 wah in reverse - from the guitar to the output jack and from the input jack to the amp. then activated the wah and experimented.

[diegoss]

and if u have a line 6 pod xt live , can u do the same thing?

[GuitarBoy888]

I don;t think so, unless you have a patch or an option to sinulate a reverse plugged wah sound.

You see, this sound is created with an analog wah, usually specific models like my VOX V847 or old CryBaby's.

[minkusoxyware]

ouch thats not good

[ZronZ]

sounds nothing like it lmfao!

[GuitarBoy888]

what do you mean? the seagull effect? you need to learn how to control it...

[1TomMetal1]

אחח גם אני רוצה לעשות את זה עם הוואה שלי, חבל שזה לא עובד לי :(