Wah pedal on harp is ridiculous
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2022
- Wah pedal on harp is insane. Today we learned that envelope filter pedals are just boneless wah wah pedals. Join us as we try the JAM wah, Crybaby wah, and a bunch of other filter pedals on harp.
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Important for me to acknowledge that I didn't think a wah pedal would sound good on harp, and then you made it sound good
and you call yourself a wah pedal expert -_-
I need details on that Mockingbird. She's a beaut.
@@Doomchild2XL thanks man it was custom built for me by Alex Glasser at Iron Horse Instruments
@@CyberattackWorld Ah, so that's a little horsey on the headstock. I see. 👍
I think the sonic characteristics of the harp just make it sound good with everything. I'm STILL not over that Meris Enzo demo.
So I need an entire wah pedal/filtered lo-fi harp album immediately.
Seriously though, this is so cool.
Indeed, is she on Spotify or something?
Yeaaaaaahhhh
Wah pedal filtered lo-fi harp album 😄
PLEASE!!!!!
Agree!
This is definitely the music to an underwater level.
Omg yesss!
It sound like taking mushrooms
Cyberattack: We don’t need to do wah wah anymore
Emily: *plays wah harp*
Me: I immediately need more wah harp in my life
😂
wharp
When she said “so I brought someone who is an expert on wah pedals” The possibility of Kirk Hammett showing up genuinely crossed my thoughts for a second
Deadass my first thought was "damn a tom morello cameo"
I'm fairly certain Kirk would be nerding out right along with them doing this.
Especially if Emily decided to compose an original herp/ wah pedal piece that corresponds to the drama/ emotions of an old vintage black and white horror movie. Sense Kirk Hammit is a massive horror/ music nerd.
She said expert so that's not a possibility.
Who
The sound of the harp in combination with a wah-device reminds me of the soundtrack for Sci-Fi movies from the 1970s. You could start a whole new genre at this. Great Job, you two!
Totally Soviet and French sci-fi cartoon OST stuff from 70s-80s.
@@shadowflash705 yes!
Fantastic Planet soundtrack for sure..
Almost like that's the prime era of electronic manipulation of sound prior to it's ruin using digital effects.
I remember those xD
I think im addicted to hearing a harp through pedals now.
Hahaha 😊 you’re on the right channel then!
6:52 sounded so heavenly, love that vibe.
reminded me of telepopmusik
@@Iliketoeatcheezits was about to comment this 😯
I want an entire album of stuff like this for easy listening
Check out tipper lol
Agreed!
@@elyasstephens8242 exactly, Tipper is a great example of wah, resonant electronic synth sounds.
I also think of Amon Tobin - Sounds Like Moths.
Just a one-hour "listening for focus/study/work" track that's just harp on wah.
The first thing she played reminded me a lot of some of Buckethead's slower music. Check out the song Electric Tears from the album of the same name (also Padmasana and Angel Monster, but the whole album is very nice).
I like to imagine a scenario, in which, I walk into my local guitar store and Emily is an employee. She then proceeds to demo stuff for me on harp, makes me reconsider playing guitar, and, due to charming me with her "low pressure" off-beat humorous sales tactics, I find myself in the parking lot, an hour later, trying to stuff a harp and a bunch of pedals into my car, when all I came down for was strings.
LMFAOOOOO your comment just made my DAY 😂💖 you’re probably right, I get way too excited about harp & pedal stuff and I’d be like “LISTEN, Benefactor, a Dusty Strings model harp is only like $3K, that’s just like a high-end guitar price!! Once you hear this baby through reverb you’re gonna shit ur pants”
@@emilyharpist Oh fuck woman, don't stop doing what you're doing!
It took me five minutes to type this, because you're response made me laugh so hard that I couldn't hit the right keys.
Yeah, you'd probably tell me the harp played like buttah, that it was the harp equivalent weight-wise of a Thinline Tele, and then upsell me on "special" patch cables, cuz harps have an "advanced" electronics system that "dont take regular cables, see".
I look forward to more "experts" (read: neighbours that agreed to do it because your sandwiches "taste better than what Bonnie makes").
Remember to do your finger exercises before bed tonight, and wipe down you strings. Via con Dios.
@@emilyharpist Oh snap, maybe it will help with my constipation, with a nice toilet soundtrack to boot.
Have you priced harps lately?
@@usmcchrisg yes
This is the best pedal overview ever. It was great to see you discover the sounds, and immediately make the most of them.
Thank you so much! 🥰❤️🎶
I don't know why this video popped up in my "feed" but I'm so glad it did. The sounds are amazing. I'd love to hear full tracks made with some of these filters. I especially liked poppy :)
i know for sure that my feed said "this guys is looking at 40k content with Orks " and from there i guess it did Warhhhh= Wah pedal?
Same but I did enjoy this also host had a great vibe and seems talented although I don’t know anything about instruments
"feed"
Emily mimicking what the pedals sound like should be a part of every review
Lmfao noted! I will try to do this more 😊 thanks Mikasa!
Indeed !
6:41 ❤️
You can't help it with a wah pedal. lol.
I wonder what the physical representation of a tremolo pedal would be
10:15 the censoring of the feet caught me of guard and cracked me up
Yeah I noticed that too. My naive brain first thought it was a logo that had to be hidden because copyright or something?
@K Lowden for free at least
Me too I was like “what’s that about?” Then I remembered. This is the internet.
why are they censored? Genuine question
@@chrishunt646 perverts
The consideration of the mouth sounds warning combined with your personality and the inextricable luck of having the algorithm show me the thumbnail has earned you, my subscription!
In addition to an unending list of other factors!
Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
*[Someone]:* “Is there a wah pedal expert in the building?”
*[Wah Pedal Expert]:* “HewoOOow.”
😂
Sounds a lot like a synth when effects are applied to the harp.
You’re so right!
Considering that synths are just a bunch of pedal effects put into sequence you are not that far off
@@sillyjellyfish2421 haha that’s not what synths are. Synths use mathematically generated waveforms which are then enveloped.
@@sillyjellyfish2421 NO they're usually a lot more complex than that a perfect example being the DX7 which uses logarithmically generated waveforms.
@@michealpersicko9531 Not that much more complex. It's not super hard to replicate synths using Reaktor, unless you want something that sounded faituful to an analog synth.
Wow! Why haven't people been doing this sooner??? This sounds absolutely amazing and beautiful.
I want to make a whole psychedelic harp album.
Harpsychord
Yes
Delia Derbyshire would have been messing around with this sort of thing before most of you were even born.
Check out Tipper's music, he does this sort of thing all the time
@@elyasstephens8242 any suggestion for a specific song with harp in it?
The foot blurring at 10:19 made me laugh. No free feet pics! Also great video. I recently saw this modern chamber group called Esmerine, and they also had some effects on a harp (I think reverb and some modulation). My harp horizons have been expanded.
I was astounded by that and came looking for a comment which addressed it hahaha
@@PetersonSilva only reason I'm in the comment section lol
I didn't notice! lol
It's not foot blurring, but a shallow depth field (camera shutter aperture below f1/1.4, I guess).
@@gfer66 no no not on the zoom on the right. Look at her foot on the left, where her body appears completely as she plays. There is clearly an ellipsis of blur around her foot
Your sound design specifically around the speaking parts of this video are remarkably refreshing. It's so nice not to hear weird mouth sounds (I know people can't help it but still), or buzzy background static. Good job, and thank you for blessing our ears with these examples of interestingly altered musical performance.
I like how you're both so unfiltered it feels so genuine and chilled. 😊
Haha thanks so much!
idk, seems like they filtered themselves through the whole video
@@willia_music oooh, I see what you did there! Took me some time tho
@@willia_music teehee
Mellow space age stuff! Fits straight into in any (classic) science fiction setting.
this is the first video of yours i've seen and omg my mind is completely blown, this is one of the most amazing things ive ever watched
hahah thank you so much!! I really appreciate that! 🥰 so glad you enjoyed it!
Bless you for adding the mouth sounds warning 😂I typically can't stand mouth sounds, but the warning made them tolerable and amusing
The harp itself is such an emotional instrument, but the way she used the pedal made it seem SO alive!
It feels so alive. I loved it 💕💕💕😘
Thank you so much!!! That makes me so happy!! 🥰💖💖💖
@@emilyharpist wahrp expert
I enjoyed this program.
Thank you for being here! ❤️
I enjoy your videos, Adam :) did not expect to see you in here haha.
Why I step on my harp, not my pedal
Vinegar Wahpedal is on the right 👉
Adam Ragusea is into pedals, my life is complete
Oh my god...
PLEASE MAKE AN ALBUM.
I need your funky, harp tones to keep me company while I write.
hahah I'M ON SPOTIFY AND BANDCAMP!!! ❤️😂
I kinda love this. It's so dreamy feeling. You could make awesome music to just zone out or fall asleep to with how pleasant and ethereal it is.
Ivan is pretty awesome but for a split second, I thought you were going to bring in Kirk Hammett as the expert.
Not gonna lie - I had to Google who that was
I think you meant Kirk Wahmmett. 🤘🏽🤘🏽
@@emilyharpist ngl I could have bet on that fr fr no cap
@@creion9394 no cap
@@emilyharpist.
No offence (I obviously can't expect you to know who he is), but it's a little strange that you'd experiment with wah pedals so much without at least having seen the name before.
I have no interest in musical instruments but you're so awkwardly entertaining without actually being awkward.
hahaha thank you so much!! I really appreciate that 😂❤️
And a CUTIE
Please make a whole chillout album . Just such a relaxing sound .
wow the youtube algorithm has blessed me today. stumbled across this sick video and most wonderful channel. i am so obsessed with this WahWah'd harp sound. pleeeeeaaaassseeeee somebody tell me this exists on an album or something somewhere. Honestly i would pay for a whole mixtape of Emily trying out different pedals and sounds on her harp like this. Please! give it to meeee!!!
I think vs guitar+wah, the harp+wah is helped by how we're hearing the non-amped string sound, so the wah is more of an atmospheric background to still-crisp harp.
It's so refreshing, as a guitarist who (much like the guitarist you brought in) is very jaded towards many of the effects used in this video, to see someone with very little familiarity with them discover the wonder of these sounds for the first time. I particularly liked the use of the artemis, and if I might make a suggestion, I think hooking up an expression pedal to that one to control the modulation rate instead of using the envelope function could sound very nice on harp.
It peaked with Hendrix and then Kirk Hammet dug up its corpse
If you're jaded that's your problem. 70s wah-funk will never not slap. Maybe worry more about the music and less about what you think other people with think is "cool"...
@@matthewlawton9241 ok boomer
Dude! Step mode with delay is just the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Also that progression you are doing to test this stuff out sounds like something I wrote on classical guitar. It's the 2 note thing you are doing.
I really like this channel. She take the pristine and classic sound of a harp, which is already one of the most beautiful instruments to exist. And puts a modern twist on it by introducing electronic pedals and sounds. It’s pretty toight
Haha, holy shit. The thinly veiled but pure contempt towards wah pedals in the beginning of the episode was hilarious. And those imitations were spot on. Uncanny even.
People who play harp and know how to analyze and describe sound are absolutely qualified to sell effects to anyone from a kazooist, to a concert pianist, and all who fall in between, and around those camps. Great channel.
Wow, I love that sample & hold effect from the Spatial Delivery one. It reminds me a lot of the video game Katamari Damacy, specifically the part when you have to roll up all the planets and then the sun
Unexpected katamari reference! Hello, fellow Trash Ball fan!
Unexpectedly cool combo! Being able to filter each of your pickups through a different pedal was next level.
This is what music is all about for the artist. A sound, or a feeling, that gets the creative juices flowing. It might take time to find the sweet spot, but in time the full song, or even a well places riff or fill comes to life.
I feel 100% certain that you are the worlds coolest harp player
Thank you so much Robert! I’m sure there are cooler ones out there 🧐
1000%.
I’ve never wanted to jam out with someone so bad in my life! 😅
Except for Abby. She’s right up there with you.
I hope she's not the coolest harp player because she is way cool and I hope there is somehow more out there.
Joanna Newsom is quite cool... And quirky ;)
I just listened to some Dorothy Ashby… She is extremely cool… Giving you a run for your money :-)
I really appreciate your unconventional approach to effect pedals.. most product reviews force me to attempt to decipher between cliched guitar playing and conventional sound settings what the unit may actually be capable of.. thank you
Omg, now I need more harp with way pedal! That sound makes my soul happy. It’s SO good
I’ve been a silent subscriber for a while now and saw this video getting some negative comments, just wanted to be a drop on the positive side and say that please, please continue to be who you are and keep making great content! Whether that be pedal videos, harp videos or a new musical direction you feel is unexplored! You have a wonderful talent, thanks for your hard work!
Your single handedly making the harp a really cool instrument.
Thank you!!!
@@emilyharpist The pleasure is all mine.
The harp is already a really cool instrument ya baboon
Hey I thought Vollenweider did that already long ago… but yeah this is cool too.
The harp has always been one of the most fire instruments
This just randomly came across my feed; first video of you. Just wanna say that not only was the topic/video in general fun, but you have a wonderfully genuine personality :). Thanks for sharing with us!
Harps and wah peddles sound dreamy on their own. But together they make such a calm and sleepy sound.
I think for me, my disinterest in Wah is that the filter sweeps are often so much faster than I like....a really slow filter sweep just sounds awesome, especially with a slightly lower resonance.
I agree with the second part, that's typically how I use a wah. Try to sweep as slowly as I can usually using the higher end of the sweep more often than the lower. Supposedly you can adjust that with trim pots or something similar on the inside of some wahs, which I've done, since I don't incorporate that Funk/porn sound that everyone seems to immediately bust out the second they start playing a wah.
You mean 'Auto Wah' I think, Wah you control it with your foot.
Yeah I totally get that. I am by no means a pro or even an intermediate level guitarist, but I like to have fun while playing. Bought myself a CryBaby when I first started, and quickly found myself barely rocking it, and doing so as slow as possible. I personally like the mid to high range because it kind of "screams" if that makes any sense. I love how Adam Jones from Tool gently phases his wah and often holds it at the mids for a while before rocking back or forth. Makes you forget he's using a wah for a second.
Could honestly watch Emily be optimistic and Ivan be cynical at each other for hours hahaha
Why?
@@frankmorris7751 Because it's comedy gold!
I laughed an embarrassing amount at Ivan's whole bit about "I don't think people should do those things anymore" 😂
Same. That was hilarious.
@@juliebraden6911 🙄🥱
Love how when he steps on the pedal for the first time, he mouths it out. Love passionate artists!
This video was my intro to your channel and I have to say that I dug it. Super chill with a nice off-beat humor. Also, great call back to HIMYM!
I love this channel so much. It always makes me smile to see people nerding out over their passion and having fun.
Thank you! I’m really happy to have you here and we love nerding out about harp and gear!!
What I like with the wah is that it just seems to ADD to the harp. It's like the harp sound is still there, and then you added a wah. It sounds really nice. Especially with the first one.
You and your friends seem to have a great time doing these videos. I hope they know how lucky they are. You are a treasure!
Having a lot of classically trained friends who have used guitar pedals on their instruments with brilliant results, I knew from the beginning that you'd end up loving this.
The Cry Baby does make unwanted noises, but it sounds soooo much smoother and sharper.
Yeah I also thought it sounded a LOT better
It feels like the other is outputting clean harp with a wah filter while the crybaby sounds like it is shaping the whole tone more. I have the mooer mini wah and I feel like it has that same filter effect. I always feel like the crybaby effects the whole output unlike any other wah.
The spring and actuator is the same as a like $30 pedal is the problem
Congrats on the Zzounds partnership! Wah sounds way cooler than I would have thought on Harp and omg I want a Rossie Filter! So cool!
Rossie is so fun! Everybody Wang Chung tonight! Thanks so much BWC 😊
Unexpectedly awesome! Some very dreamy sounds!
Wow! Works SO well!! 😃
Never thought of this but its amazing. And your other videos with effects on the harp. Awesome. Sounds so good I feel like we must've heard this without knowing many times before.
👍👍👍👍
I watched your video initially because I was interested to hear what a wah sounds like on a harp. But I continued to watch because of how open, honest, and unpretentious you are. It was a pleasure to listen to you. Thank you.
Who knew Classical Harp could mix with Blues and Psychedelic? I am eager to hear more! SUBSCRIBED! (Oh and... your How I Met Your Mother reference made me reach for that subscribe button too!)
Wah/filters on the harp just topped harp through tremolo for me. Thank you for the enlightenment and beautiful sounds.
I absolutely loved the "poppy" effect on special delivery.
First three notes. and I'm already disappointed that it's not more prolific. That sounds amazing.
The harp is by its nature a melodic instrument, it made me wonder if you have ever approached it as one would a rhythm guitar. The string muting is what made me think of this. Great video!
String muting is an easy technique that requires no fancy technology....but when combined together with what's essentially an audio frequency modulator/wah pedal, allows for a plethora of interesting sounds.
I gotta say your personality is so fun like ur not necessarily funny or cool just like fun cuz u come over as genuine which makes it cool
Absolutely mindblowing how nice that sounds. Subbed!
You should also try a Morley wah, which uses an optical sensor instead of a worm and gear on a pot. It's the smoothest and doesn't get dirty and noisy and has the longest frequency sweep
If you want to explore Wah more, try the sonuus Wahoo. It is a analogue 2 Filter Wah which is completely free programmable in the ranges and peaks you want to have. So you could customize your wah perfectly towards the needs of a harp. As far as I know it is the king of wahs, when it comes to versatility and in my opinion sound. This is more a fully equipped multimode dual filter of a synth than merely a wah pedal. Now i stop advertising, ;) Have lots of fun in doing what you are doing
Greetings from Germany
Wow that sounds SUPER cool! I can’t believe I’ve never heard of that before! I’m definitely going to look into that one, the range is a big factor when it comes to harp! The Wahcko does a great job at range selection, but this might be amazing!
Awesome my Hendrix Fuzz Wah ( 16 DB dialable boost ) is just way too muddy and then shrill it's ok for some things....but I tend to think one part is wrong...it's too wide a sweep and horrid at extremes with a tiny sweet spot.
@@emilyharpist much to explore....imagine what a moog murf would do?! A M Z I N G.
@@emilyharpist It is...and whatever you do, don't EVER try to feed your harp into a synthesizer circuit with dual resonant highpass and lowpass filters + panning under heavy modulation at audio rate.... else you could die laughing. 😋
Man..I legitimately want more of this, it's so cool
I don't know how I got here, but I'm staying for more for sure. So chill, and love the sound of the wah on the harp, such an odd but perfect pairing!
When she plays the three pedals together, it just sounded otherworldly beautiful 🖤
Thank you!
That tactical feet blur in the end! 😂😂😂😂
I saw- but why tho?
@@UrsaMajorPrime creeps on the internet
at first i was like why xD but i get it, shes big brain
I think it would be really cool to hear some of your music in games, getting major game vibes here 🤩
so excited to see where this will all take you, your music is so mesmerizing and inspiring 😍 please don't ever forget that you are such a beautiful person 🥰
This video has made you one of my favorite musicians, in a season full of fantastic new (for me) music. Great promo, I’ll be looking into some of those pedals.
The wah and filter combo adds so much more atmospheric depth to the harp. A harp on its own isolated is beautiful but I feel like the pedals create a fuller sounding musical piece (layered sounds ) in a live setting rather than relying on layering via multi recording/looping. TLDR this is a game changer for the sounds and I LOVE IT!!!
Love the separation between the highs and lows with the different pedals on each. Makes a superbly spacey sound.
wah pedal harp is the sound I didn't know I needed in my life.
This video was exactly what I didn't know I needed exactly when I didn't know I needed it. Subscribed a few minutes in.
Mad cool! Who knew wah would sound so good on harp? The textures are so calming.
Thanks Brandon!
I honestly did not expect it to sound so good!!! This is amazing :D
Thanks Connor! It was so much fun!
I love watching videos like this that explore possibilities in sound. Wah seems like a no-brainer on harp now. It would be cool to hear a direct line comparison without the room sound, especially on the waka-waka-chaka-chaka kind of stuff you liked better on the cry baby than the wah. Isolating the sound from the wah without the room noise created by those fast, multiple string strokes on harp would be pretty cool to hear.
Apertures opening. Mine included. I truly would have never guessed. I love it!
It's so fun watching you discover all these cool gadgets for your harp. I've been a guitar player and gadget guy since 1982 and honestly if I spent as much time practicing my instrument as I do playing around with guitar pedals and multi-effect units, I'd be pretty damn good by now instead of just a hobbyist, but it wouldn't be nearly as fun. Keep exploring the cool gear. I love your reaction to the new sounds. It is obvious you've already done all the practicing necessary to master the instrument anyways, so you might as well have fun being creative with some new sounds.
The ZVEX Wah Probe was a great pedal, it uses a theremin plate to determine how much it should affect the sound. Would be fun to see one of those on harp!
That one sounds really cool! I need to check it out!
The audio on this video, all around, sounds amazing. Very relaxing.
Very cool, packed with ideas, and pedals, and then pedal combinations on pickups!? Nice :)
I had no idea what to expect there but as soon as you hit the first note I was, "Oh yeah, that works"!! The piece you played with the full set up was beautiful, would have loved to have heard more of it. Lovely work all round, you made a new subscriber out of me 👍
I thought the Crybaby's tone was a little better, honestly, but you aren't wrong about them feeling and sounding clunky. The mechanics of the Crybaby work, but that's about all you can say positive about them. They're mechanically noisy, and yeah, they even kind of just "feel" clunky. I thought it sounded amazing with the harp.
That was a cool video. Thank you for sharing that info!
I’ve been wondering for years what pedals would sound like on a harp! Looking forward to watching more of your vids :D
The "Spatial delivery" sounds like what was on the Metroid Prime OST or something. Shits REAL good.
Metroid Prime has one of the best OST’s EVER!!!
I found something I didn't know I needed in my life. My entire body craves this as a genre.
That’s amazing! I love the popping sound one 🧡
You make me interested in things I wasn’t interested in before, and I just really like your vibe.
Never thought I would watch a Harp Video, but this was really exceptional. Great job.
You've some amazing yet calm content... Why haven't I discovered this channel before!?
I mean I guess amazing yet calm is characteristic of the harp, but so is your whole personality / presentation
Thanks so much!! Welcome to the channel, I’m glad you found it!
This was absolutely amazing!
Just want to say that THIS is how to integrate sponsored content into a video. Good stuff!