It was faster to come up with a base preset. Q-Wah was the 1st algorithm to come to mind, with the BassWAH TYPE providing an extended range. It held up pretty well against your YouTube link. That is, from a quick run on a Steinberger bridge pickup, a touch of clean boost in front, but no compression. Clean Vox amps.
SENSITIVITY is where you start: match your playing style & picking strength. Give it a good range of picking dynamics to chew on. OUT LEVEL, if you need to gain-stage here. Check the Input & Output Level Meters.
Q-INTENSITY (effect mix / depth), DEPTH, SENSITIVITY, and BOTTOM are going to be interactive. Don’t worry about the ‘bottom row’ for now [TEMPO, DEPTH MOD, SPEED MOD, MOD SENS MOD SOURCE].
- Set your base SENSITIVITY level. Small tweaks on everything else
- Too harsh on the high end? Bring down Q-INTENSITY or DEPTH; bring up the BOTTOM.
- Not enough effect? Bring up the DEPTH, Q-INTENSITY.
- Don’t max any interactive control out; up or down. 25 to 75 range; small increments.
Plenty of other options (algorithms) to choose from, but let’s start here.
I’m having good results with a preset very close to this one from Brock except with the BOTTOM set to 5. This parameter seems to set the low frequency from which the wah blooms. For this wah sound I had to set BOTTOM very low.
I hear some funk guys with a thinner wah sound and IME setting BOTTOM up near 50 is how you get that sound. But IME that Misch autowah sound needs more low end.
As Brock sorta implies above, getting the autowah to work just right is very rig/touch/style dependent. So there is no substitute for adjusting to taste with this effect.
