27/04/2014

Snow White Autowah with Sidechain input mod (video included)

The Snow White Autowah is the best autowah I have tried, the Nurse Quacky and the Seamoon Funk Machine both have too much ripple in the decay, and the DOD FX25 lacks a bit in the envelope detection. The SWAW has good control over the effect and sounds fantastic.

As usual I used the layout by Mark at tagboareffects to build it, but modded it to have a sidechain input for the envelope detection, like in the Chunk System's Agent 00Funk. This feature helps a lot when you want to put the SWAW after a distortion or fuzz but responding to the original signal. I use a signal splitter with one output going to the fuzz and the other output to the sidechain input of the SWAW.

I used a switched jack for the sidechain input so it works as stock when nothing is connected to the sidechain.




This is my modded layout with the sidechain input, I canibalized Mark's layout so all the credits goes to him.


This is the layout for the signal splitter I built.


And this is the splitter boxed



Play the video below to see how it works.






15/04/2014

Demo video of some pedals

I recorded a video to demo some of my pedals, it contains crappy playing but I like the different sounds I can get with my toys. The audio is coming from that old radio on top of my pedalboard, it has a Punch 1W amp with a Simple CabSim and the original 4ohm speaker.