Mads - Mr T-Wah
I’ve worked with Mads on a couple of things and he was one of the first people that I discussed this project with, and possibly the first to offer something to the project. The mighty Boss T-Wah TW-1. I liked the way that he called it a “studio relic”, added something to the meaning of the pedal, it’s almost as though part of that studio has been sent over - representing a time and place - there’s something of an architectural feel to the pedal. More about the project
Studio-Scape (Mads right) from https://www.facebook.com/skyphonemusic/
Mads writes - The Boss T Wah has been lying around in our studio for as long as we can remember. The last couple of years we have changed studio quite a lot, but we have always kept it with us. No one notices it. If there are people coming to the studio, no one has gone “Oh, wow, you’ve a 1983 T Wah”.
But it’s like getting rid of it would just be too much – keeping odd pieces of gear maybe give you some stability, even if things around you change. No one really remembers who brought it in, and no one has used it for decades. It’s one very unloved piece of gear. The T Wah is like an envelope filter, meaning that the filter reacts to the sound coming into it and not to some user input like on a regular wah-wah pedal. However, most guitar players, I think, like the control of a wah-pedal, the idea that you shape the sound with your foot pedaling away on the Cry Baby wah, Jimi Hendrix style.
In the Studio with Skyphone I think the pedal might be useful (and maybe even coveted) if you’re really into the ‘Funkadelic’, P-Funk genre-conscious wagga-wagga, chunking, but we’re into ambient, so it’s a bit tricky. I guess it could be used for some funk bass too, but the low end oomph of the bass is often lost with these kinds of filters. Maybe if we put a lot of reverb on it and played reeeaaaalllllyyyy sllllooooowwww.
Still, it’s kind of comforting to have it. To know that just in case, if you really wanted to and if you got this crazy idea of plugging a microphone or a marimba or a square wave generator into it, you could, and maybe you’d get something pretty amazing.
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