Okay, you may have seen the other thread about my new Teese WW. Basically what I am trying to figure out if something's wrong with it, or if it's just me hating the tone of it. IF YOU HAVE ONE OR HAVE PLAYED ONE, please let me know if yours sounded similar to this. My cheif complaints are the lack of treble and its SUDDEN onset (it doesn't add much treble at all to the original signal, and the actual range of the treble portion of the sweep is MININAL [pedal is BARELY rocked back before loosing all treb], but when you hit the treble, it's a sudden change and not smooth at all. The other major complaint is the tone of it is almost very synth-like with distortion, and the guitar almost gets completely lost at the lower end of the sweep.
Here's the clip. http://home.comcast.net/~curt_pollock/Wizzard_-_wizard_opinions.mp3 Sorry it's so long...I was just messing around not thinking of the time...obviously you can hit "stop" at any point. Tone sucks because it's just the amp into the 1x12 combo speaker (combo cab sucks) and the SM57 is three feet away, jammed in between my matress and box spring (my mike stand is elsewhere), into crappy Behringer mixer into the soundcard of my PC. It's funny because the things I hate are actually MUCH more noticeable live than on this clip, but it could be because the mike is three feet away. Oh, I almost forgot the typical disclaimer..."Don't judge my playing by this clip because I'm really a MONSTER guitar player."
00:20 - notice the sudden onset of the treble portion of the wah
00:58 - added OD (FD2 in CompCut mode), sudden onset of treble is more apparent...notice an almost clicking or popping sound occurring at the top of the sweep
2:15 - OD off, Hot Brit dist on. In lower part of sweep, guitar seems to get lost (also especially noticable at starting at 2:15, also at 2:50, 4:25, etc) . Wah effect seems to be more of an ADDED effect on top of the guitar signal (almost synth-sounding at times, especially in lower part of sweep) as opposed becoming one with the signal and sounding like an actual wah pedal. This is noticeable through the remainder of this awfully long, boring and sloppy clip. Sounds especially awful at 5:45 during the "Man in the Box" riff. It sounds very harsh to my ears and not very wah-like or musical.
Here's the clip. http://home.comcast.net/~curt_pollock/Wizzard_-_wizard_opinions.mp3 Sorry it's so long...I was just messing around not thinking of the time...obviously you can hit "stop" at any point. Tone sucks because it's just the amp into the 1x12 combo speaker (combo cab sucks) and the SM57 is three feet away, jammed in between my matress and box spring (my mike stand is elsewhere), into crappy Behringer mixer into the soundcard of my PC. It's funny because the things I hate are actually MUCH more noticeable live than on this clip, but it could be because the mike is three feet away. Oh, I almost forgot the typical disclaimer..."Don't judge my playing by this clip because I'm really a MONSTER guitar player."
00:20 - notice the sudden onset of the treble portion of the wah
00:58 - added OD (FD2 in CompCut mode), sudden onset of treble is more apparent...notice an almost clicking or popping sound occurring at the top of the sweep
2:15 - OD off, Hot Brit dist on. In lower part of sweep, guitar seems to get lost (also especially noticable at starting at 2:15, also at 2:50, 4:25, etc) . Wah effect seems to be more of an ADDED effect on top of the guitar signal (almost synth-sounding at times, especially in lower part of sweep) as opposed becoming one with the signal and sounding like an actual wah pedal. This is noticeable through the remainder of this awfully long, boring and sloppy clip. Sounds especially awful at 5:45 during the "Man in the Box" riff. It sounds very harsh to my ears and not very wah-like or musical.