Description

Zvex Ooh Wah 2

Improved version of the Ooh Wah 2. It holds at step #1 when in bypass mode, and starts in time when turned on. I make another pedal called a seek-wah, but this new one does everything that one does and more. It has a random/seek stomp switch that lets you jump between the seek-wah sound and this new random mode, which sounds a little like random sample-and-hold driving a bandpass filter.

If you don’t know what that is… listen to Frank Zappa’s “Ship Ahoy” as an example.

You can set up patterns which accentuate notes in arpeggiated chords at particular spots. Or, you can set the thing to do a sort of tremolo echo in seek mode, with the knobs set like this:

7:00, 5:00, 8:00, 5:00, 11:00, 5:00, 2:00, 5:00 (these are o’clock positions, not spinal tap 1-11). Then set the speed control for a happy tempo. Another fun setting is to put each knob at a different position and put the pedal in random mode with the random switch.

Also, try putting all the knobs in a very narrow range in the middle of the wah sound (about 1 or 2:00) and set the speed pretty fast in random mode… fun burbling sound. Give me enough knobs, and I can control the world. -Z. Vex