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Thanks! Yes, you're spot on I'm using the stock effects from Cubase 6 Artist Student Edition from 2010. Live, I'm running my verb and delay straight in to the front of the amp, which sounds good as long as you don't go crazy with the levels of either and/or you don't run too much gain on the amp. It's a compromise, but like you I didn't enjoy the effects loop for some reason. I'll have to try it again, but I rarely carry 5 cables with me for guitar on a gig (4 in use and one spare) as it seems like a lot of extra work, especially when I have to bring the PA too. I'm using an NUX Cerberus at the moment, it has the NUX Atlantic Delay and Verb in it. I did a review of the Atlantic before NUX sent me the Cerberus. I highly recommend either unit as they sound good and are very reasonably priced. You'd probably get an Atlantic for 50 quid used. Cheers, Ben.

@@BenFletcherGuitar Thanks for the response! I'll try running my effects into the front of the amp, didn't even think of that.

Haha! Recorded the whole track with a BC Rich Warlock and three Waza Craft Metal Zones...

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Thanks, mate!

Thank you! Both very inspiring players. This track is more of a concept thing, but in general I'm interested in trying to create some more stuff like Torn's soundscape/texture pieces. I really like how seemingly random they are, right on the edge of falling apart!

From memory (this is a while ago and it belonged to someone else) I felt that it had some degree of touch sensitivity but the timbre of the sample would be unchanged. Adjusting sensitivity (did it have that?) is more about how hard you have to hit it to trigger it, as opposed to how dynamic something is. Hope this helps, Ben.

Thanks, man! You know me, none more metal! Haha!

I haven't been experiencing any particular noise issues. I would say that all wah's have a bit of noise when you kick them in on higher gain tones, but nothing the mix or the drummer wouldn't mask out. My Bad Horsie was exceptional noisy and that was optical, so not sure why. Pay close attention to the bypass sound, as I mention in the video this wah is buffered. The standard cry baby is a great pedal, I do like the adjustable Q point on this one, as it can make the wah effect more pronounced. There are lots of good options for stand-alone wah's but this one comes with the benefit of being a volume too. If you don't need the volume that might not be so useful, as you may leave it with the volume slightly backed off by accident. Cheers, Ben.

And thank you!

@@BenFletcherGuitar Thank you very much for taking time to respond Ben! I just purchase it supposedly for our gig next month! Hopefully it will work out well using both the volume and wah! I see that this is a very new release so I;m not seeing any othe reviews. Thanks again for this video review that made it easy for me to decide!

Haha! Those 5150's actually slay, but only if you can turn them up to a blistering volume. Of course the Metal Zones have to be Waza Craft, for the tone! All of them set to full gain.

Thank you, very kind!

Thank you! My amp (Marshall SV20H) is a none master volume plexi style head. If you want more gain, you have to turn it up. In doing that for some reason it sends more signal to the send of the effects loop, so you end up clipping (another word for distorting, but in this case a horrible way) the input of whatever effect you've placed in the loop. The -10DB should theoretically allow you to send more level to the unit before it distorts, which is handy if I were to use my effects loop. Cheers, Ben.

@ thank you for that explanation!

I'm impressed with the sound of the wah, especially for lead stuff where you can crank up the Q control and make it really expressive. I'm not much of a volume pedal user, but I can see it's handy to have both in one unit. Cheers, Ben.

Thank you! Yes, super handy to have both in one enclosure. I haven't tried any of the Hotone products yet, but the ampero range looks cool. Sonicake have sent me two of their modelling devices, which I believe run on the same platform as the Ampero ones (You can control both units with the same software, so that's a bit of a giveaway) A lot of people like the Ampero units though, so might be worth me trying to get hold of one. Cheers, Ben.

Thank you! I would say that for bedroom use this amp would probably be way too loud unless you run it through an attenuator. (unless it's a really massive bedroom!) That being said, the normal channel takes pedals well and would sound great with most dirt pedals. The bright channel of this amp needs to be turned up a long way to clear that bright cap. It's unusable to my ears unless it's at least half way up (which is sodding loud for home use!). You could maybe clip the bright cap, though you'd no longer have a warranty. I don't have experience with the origin series amps unfortunately so can't comment on those too much. I've heard good things, but the demos seem quite fizzy so I'm not sure. Also, there is no clean with this amp. I've recently put out a video comparing this amp to the JTM45 version. It might be worth having a look at that, as you'll get a feel for what this amp does at different volume levels. Just as a quick note, I run in to an attenuator and then an impulse response through my mixing speakers. Doing that I can play at barely speaking volume, even with the amp at maximum. Cheers, Ben.

@BenFletcherGuitar Hi Ben..Thanks for that detailed response.That really helps me....If it's going to be hard to 'clear the bright cap' on channel 1 which I want, ( the "Jimmy Page "Channel) I'd have to look at a Master Vol mod and then that will compromise the clean....I think maybe a higher powered Marshall with a master may be the way for me ( 1987 50 watt with master mod or Origin)

Thanks, Tom! Just in-case you confuse this with the Volwah from Sonicake, this is a full size wah (only because you said about 'board friendly size') Someone else mentioned it in the comments and that one is a mini pedal. Personally I prefer the full size wah's as I find the mini ones a little tricky to control, although I can see they're practical for small setups. Thanks again, Ben.

@@BenFletcherGuitar Thanks for the clarification. To me, it looks mid-sized. I have both a regular and Jr Ernie Ball volume pedal; both are significantly larger than, say, a Boss FV-30H (which has taken their place on my board; I'd call it mid-sized). I also have a Dunlop Volume(X)Mini, which is what I'd consider to be "mini" sized. I'm guessing from your video that the Flip Wah is closer to Boss in size than it is to EB, but that's just a guess.

Haha! Thank you! I jest of course, I'd only trade a soul for talent, not pedals. I just haven't found the right crossroads yet! It was the royal 'we' I was referring to. Since the devil wanted to make the trade, I guess the devil owns the gear? Maybe I should have said 'he' has a Q knob, that he's allowing me to adjust...for a price.

@@BenFletcherGuitar great reply, very relieved to see humour not dead yet on UA-cam. Keep 'em coming!

I think they make a dedicated volume pedal too. I'm a bit of a wah junkie once I get one on a gig, I can't stop myself! ha! I tend not to take one though. Jeff Beck used one a lot and I always like that sound. If you have some kind of buffered pedal like a Boss tuner, you can stick that before a passive volume pedal and achieve the same result as an active volume pedal. Basically so that your pickups don't get hit with the extra load from turning down because of the buffer. Might be a cheaper way of doing it, as passive volumes are easy to come by. Pay close attention to my bypass example, there's a barely perceptible difference in having this one in-line, which is why I added that section.

I've never tried the volwah, but I just googled it. This is a full size pedal, the volwah is very small. This one has an adjustable Q knob, the vowah doesn't. This one can run off 9v battery, the volwah doesn't appear to list that as a feature. This one is orange, the volwah isn't!

@@BenFletcherGuitar Already bought it! But I feel its too difficult to switch wah/volume mode. Seems that the two rubbers next to the button are so big so I have to push hard to press the button

@@pablob4310 You bought this one or the VolWah? That's interesting because I nearly mentioned in my video that mine is super easy to switch on. I had a Cry Baby years ago, that literally required stamping on to get it to turn on! Maybe the rubbers will compact over time, or you could cut a bit off them? Or...you could eat more and let gravity be the solution!

@@BenFletcherGuitar Is this same Pedal (Flip Wah). I already did the very first try right now... So lets see if the rubbers get softer along this days. I will update. Thank u! 👍

I was going to take it to pieces to find out, but I've just noticed it has geared teeth on the arm that's on the underside of the footplate. I would think the only reason you would do that is to move something that connects with it, so I'm gunna go with rotary pot. I will say that for the time the wahter worked it didn't sound as good to me as this one. This is a much more throaty and extreme wah, especially for lead work. I'd be interested to know what it's modeled on.