Flange/Wah-Wah

Flange/Wah-Wah is used to create the sweeping effects often heard in guitar recordings from the 1960s and techno-sounds of today. With this effect, you can recreate the sounds that flanger, wah-wah, and phaser guitar pedals are famous for.

What do you want to do?

Apply a flanger effect

  1. Open the Sonic Foundry Flange/Wah-Wah dialog.

  2. Choose a preset from the Name drop-down list, or adjust the controls as desired:

  3. a. Click the Flange radio button.

  4. b. Drag the Dry out fader to set the level of the unprocessed signal that will be mixed into the output.

  5. c. Drag the Wet out fader to set the level of the processed signal that will be mixed into the output.

  6. d. Drag the Rate slider to set the frequency, in Hertz, of the modulating signal. Low frequencies create a slow, sweeping flange, while higher frequencies create fast flanging.

  7. e. Drag the Depth slider to specify the amount of frequency modulation applied to the signal.

Apply a phaser effect

  1. Open the Sonic Foundry Flange/Wah-Wah dialog.

  2. Choose a preset from the Name drop-down list, or adjust the controls as desired:

  3. a. Click the Phaser radio button.

  4. b. Drag the Dry out fader to set the level of the unprocessed signal that will be mixed into the output.

  5. c. Drag the Wet out fader to set the level of the processed signal that will be mixed into the output.

  6. d. Drag the Rate slider to set the frequency, in Hertz, of the modulating signal.

  7. e. Drag the Depth slider to determine the range of frequencies that experience phase shifting.

  8. f. Drag the Center frequency slider to set the frequency around which the sweep of the Phaser effect is centered.

  9. g. Drag the Resonance slider to specify the amount of phase shifting that takes place. When the Resonance setting is high, the range of frequencies processed is smaller, yet more pronounced.

Apply a wah-wah effect

  1. Open the Sonic Foundry Flange/Wah-Wah dialog.

  2. Choose a preset from the Name drop-down list, or adjust the controls as desired:

  3. a. Click the Wah-Wah radio button.

  4. b. Drag the Dry out fader to set the level of the unprocessed signal that will be mixed into the output.

  5. c. Drag the Wet out fader to set the level of the processed signal that will be mixed into the output.

  6. d. Drag the Rate slider to set the frequency, in Hertz, of the modulating signal.

  7. e. Drag the Depth slider to determine the sweep range of the band-pass filter.

  8. f. Drag the Center frequency slider to set the frequency around which the sweep of the Wah-Wah effect is centered.

  9. g. Drag the Resonance slider to specify the amount of band-pass filtering that takes place. When the Resonance setting is high, the range of frequencies processed is smaller, yet more pronounced.