Talk:Wah-wah
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Trumpet and electronic wah-wah are formant filtering, not pitch bending -- the electronic wah-wah pedal is a tunable filter. Electric guitar pitch bending is done mechanically with the 'whammy bar'.
- Please 213.253.40.3, if you know more, please add to and fix the article. I'm not sure what "formant filtering" is. I think distinguishing the wah-wah pedal from the whammy bar is worth doing. I started this article because I came across the name of the King Oliver song and thought it ought to be noted somewhere.Ortolan88
- Guitar pitch bending isn't just a whammy bar thing; we have fingers, you know. Deltabeignet 00:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- Yes, and that's the bizarre thing... we all call finger vibrato by its correct name, but have for decades followed Leo Fender's lead in reversing the meanings of vibrato and tremolo when it comes to electric guitar hardware. There are signs this may be changing. One of these is the use of the term whammy bar in preference to tremolo arm. Andrewa 21:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Technology
Could somebody explain how it works? For wikipedia.
[edit] Notation
How is a wah-wah written in sheet music? -- ke4roh 16:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think it is. It might perhaps be indicated in guitar tablature, but I've never seen it there either. There is lots that isn't on a music sheet! Andrewa 21:30, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] wah pedals?
wah wah pedals for guitars definitely need their own article. people do not think of wah wah as an effect for a trumpet, but an electronic guitar device. this article could be extremely confusing to someone doing research on the latter. -Joeyramoney 22:53, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
agreed, wah is a technique for playing brass instruments. the pedal is a device. -some ip, 13 Feb
i agree, when i came to search about wah-wah pedals, it came up with trumpet wah effects BEFORE guitar, and i think that for most people, if you say wah-wah, they think of the guuitar wah pedal.
- Please sign your posts on talk pages. TIA. Andrewa 18:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- probably tomorrow or later today i plan on splitting the pedal section into its' own article, perhaps giving the other two sections a separate article, a subsection in the new article, or adding the trumpet bit into the article about trumpets. any feedback, comments or suggestions would be appreciated.Joeyramoney 18:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Foo Fighters and Wah
The song "Generator" was not created using a Wah. It was actually a talk box. I saw a television performance wherein Dave used the talk box for the song; he also made some funny Frampton jokes about the talk box. Listening to the song, its clearly a talkbox. Maybe we should add something about the talk box to the main page about the wah pedal?
nah talk boxes shouldn't be with wah pedals.
- Please sign your posts on talk pages. TIA. Andrewa 18:18, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] wah pedals now split
new article at Wah wah pedal. as this is my first split article, there may be a few loose ends and redirects to clean up. any comments etc. would be appreciated. -Joeyramoney 19:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Harmon mute
Harmon mute redirects here but the article says nothing about it and I don't know enough to make such a change. So if you're reading this and you know then please add something about it! :) Cburnett 13:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Harmon Mute Con't
That is true. We cannot have a word redirecting to an article that makes no mention of it, it makes no sense, and is probably creating confusion. Measures must be taken to rectify this! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.34.0.92 (talk) 23:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC).
