I'm trying to find a way to get the wah-like sound Bread uses on the song If.
It's not a wah. Here's some info by David Gates :
Later on "If", we also got Paul to come over and that was one of the very first times a guitar had been played through a synthesizer. Up until that time you could only use a keyboard. But I wanted to run this electric guitar through the synthesizer. And that is an effect on "If" of two synthesizers going back and forth - two tone generators bouncing off of each other to get that little sort of tremolo wa-wa effect.
Any ideas on how to get this sound without using a pedal?
If by Bread effect
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They likely used one of the synthesizer's pitch frequency as a sine wave to modulate the filter on the other synthesizer (this is the one that the guitar was plugged into).
One way to get a similar sound is to use a phaser or flanger with a fast modulation speed, and a large amount of effect depth.
You could use a fixed wah mid frequency boost before the phaser/flanger to make it sound more like an auto-wah.
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You're welcome!
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here's something similar (quick and dirty)
Phaser
0.15s Rate
5 Depth
3.6 Manual
35% Feedback
-5 Peak Spread
4 Stages
+90° Stereo
100% Mix
0 Ducking
0 Volume -
glad you like it
