It’s still sat in the garage, looking abandoned and forlorn. To use a racing car analogy, any attempt at song-writing never made it out onto the starting grid. Okay, I’m not ready to record the Phase 1 material (which was my aim for 2021). Apart from a brief flurry of activity at the start of the year and then again over the Easter break, I haven’t even switched my studio gear on this year. It’s definitely distracted me from focusing on the Phase 1 material, big time. At the end of the day, I’m an electric rhythm guitarist who loves playing crunchy amps or pedals, and while musically the Phase 3 stuff is pretty naff and simplistic, there’s a lot of gratification to be had from how easy it is to just grab my electric guitar off its stand and play that stuff. Problem is, I’ve also been playing a lot of my Phase 3 material too. I’ll figure it out – I just need more practice. The other songs were written for one-finger-one-thumb finger-picking, and I keep finding myself tripping over my other fingers now that I regularly use them too. I’ve struggled with the finger-picking on other, easier songs for sure. I can’t believe that I used to try and play that one with a pick. For the first time in my life, I’ve been able to play the whole of Ragged Perceptions in a single go. I enjoyed the challenge a lot more than I expected. I’ve been practicing my Phase 1 material on acoustic guitar.
I’ve spent a lot of the year playing my old music, that’s for sure. Yeah, about that … I Did Revisit My Old Music Put together a song-writing process, and practice it.Revisit my old music, and start creating new recordings of it.Here are my musical resolutions for 2021: Did I do any better than the year before? Let’s find out. First unprocessed, then processed with wah-wah effect and in the end in context with other elements in the mix.Last year (like an idiot) I posted a bunch of music-related New Year resolutions. So now we will listen to the guitar riff. For this purpose, we have created an automation sequence that follows the guitar riff, as shown in the picture below.
MAX: Sets the filter level with the slider set all to the leftĪfter a brief introduction of the wah-wah effect, parameters let’s hear it in action. MID: Sets the filter level with the slider at its middle position. MIN: Sets the filter level with the slider set all to the left. MAX: Sets the amount of filter resonance with the slider set all to the right. MID: Sets the amount of filter resonance with the slider at its middle position. MIN: Sets the amount of filter resonance with the slider set all to the left. MAX: Sets the filter frequency with the slider set all to the right. MID: Sets the filter frequency with the slider at its middle position. MIN: Sets the filter frequency with the slider set all to the left. LP-BP-HP: Controls the mix between embedded low, band and high pass filterĭRY: Controls the dry/wet amount of the effect. STEREO: Activates true stereo processing for this module. Furthermore, below we see can see the following parameters. The Real Wah effect is based on a custom wah-wah pedal that became an instant success when it appeared in the late ’90s.įollowing this further, the upper part of the interface is a representation of the wah-wah pedal and it can move by the mouse to left or right. The picture above shows a closer look at the wah effect. You can engage it just by dragging and dropping it onto the main part of the Guitar Rig 5 interface. Specifically, the wah-wah effect which we are going to use is located in the “Filters” section. Guitar Rig 5 interface houses sections with various effects on its left side. So let’s start by adding a fresh instance of Guitar Rig 5 to the channel which is containing the above mentioned electric guitar riff.
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So in the next tutorial, we will guide you through its interface, parameters and all that followed by a couple of audio examples.įor the purpose of this tutorial, we have made a sequence in the SoundBridge: DAW that contains all the elements of the full track including the solo electric guitar riff. One of the solutions I favourize the most is the wah-wah effect incorporated in Guitar Rig 5 by Native Instruments. The evolution of technology in audio production brought a wide variety of digital effects mimicking the old analog ones, and one of them is also the famous wah-wah effect. Moreover, it is mimicking the human voice saying the onomatopoeic name “wah-wah”. A wah-wah pedal (or simply wah pedal) is a type of electric guitar effects pedal that alters the tone and frequencies of the guitar signal to create a distinctive sound.