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