How to get a Wah Wah with out the pedal

[Makingamonster]

I now this is possible, as I have seen it done. I want to put Wah Wah on a part with out using an actual pedal. I have protools and the usual set of plugins, including Eleven. I have a Midi controller, I have seen people get the Wah Wah with the mod Wheel on the Midi controller, so far I have no idea how to connect the Midi controler to anything Audio.

Thanks.

[jmitchell1532]

In Amplitube LE they have a Wah control on the amp's face. You can automate it to "wah" at the correct tempo and rhythm and such.

[flommer]

I now this is possible, as I have seen it done. I want to put Wah Wah on a part with out using an actual pedal. I have protools and the usual set of plugins, including Eleven. I have a Midi controller, I have seen people get the Wah Wah with the mod Wheel on the Midi controller, so far I have no idea how to connect the Midi controler to anything Audio.

Thanks.

PTv8 has a couple free plugins that might allow this. I know they have a filter plugin and I'm sure the cutoff will be automate-able/real-time controllable

[DrFord]

But wah is more about a resolution or bump in a frequency that you then automate for motion, it's a bit different from a filter in that a wah does not necessarily filter anything. Wah does color the sound though.

Off the top of my head, you may like putting a tube sim or something to fatten up the sound a bit, and then just getting a decent eq, spiking a frequency maybe 6db, 50% + on que (so it should be steep but not unmusically) and then automating the sweep.

GL

[jmitchell1532]

I thought a "wah" specifically was a filter of sorts for the midrange? Perhaps I was mistaken.

[audioboffin]

Wah is a twin T filter. Basically it's a resonant filter with the centre frequency swept by a pot connected to a pedal. Plenty of ways to achieve this sort of effect with plugins.

[pezking]

Isn't there a wah plugin in PT8?

Map a controller to it and you're away... No...?

[joeydego]

waves guitar has the actual pedal you can mess with, sounds pretty real to me

[Ernie Redquest]

One way of recreating a wah effect using plug in automation......
1) Duplicate your guitar track
2) add a 1 band EQ to your duplicated track and invert the phase to cancel each track
3) Use a narrow Q and boost within the mid range area. This is all you will hear because all other frequencies are phased out.
4) Either use touch automation and sweep the frequency knob back and forth on playback or write the automation using your pencil tool.