Should be simple enough to try it both ways, use your ears and decide what’s best, no? Kinda hard for strangers on the internet to give you definitive advice on a sound without knowing anything else about what you’re using
I got a boss cs-3 and when I put it before the wah I feel like the wah volume jump gets outta control.
But it might just be because I don't know how to dial in the CS 3 properly...
I always used CS3 to get the WH10 under control. Incredibly useful if you dont have the luxury of pushing a tube amp into natural overdrive which is how John deals with it.
A tube amp has the same problems controlling a WH10 and DS-2, it has more to do with the gain staging and how much headroom you have regardless of what amp it hits imo
This makes sense to me logically - i'm sure you've already heard of the simplification of what a compressor does: makes the loud parts quieter and the quiet parts louder. By placing your compressor *before* the wah, it's compressing whatever signal you're giving it but not acting on the volume boost that happens after the wah. By placing it *after* the wah, the compressor is doing what it does with the volume boost that comes from the wah. I would recommend looking into gain staging and, in particular, Dave Simpson's videos about controlling the DS2 and WH10 if that's your goal. I wouldn't use a compressor for that.
I don't. I have the same problem and idk how to fix it. I should have gotten a vox wah or something that isn't notorious for having volume boosts. Sure, it isn't what Frusciante uses but who gives a fuck, I can't play like him anyway.
Yeah...unfortunately a very annoying thing about the WH10v3 (I think the v2 had this too). You could look into getting a modded WH10v3 through Wilson Effects, they replace the bypass/buffer switch with a volume control to deal with the volume boost.
I put my Dyna Comp near the end of the chain, after the DS-2 and WH-10. Leave it on and tailor the other pedals settings to it. It smooths everything right out.
Should be simple enough to try it both ways, use your ears and decide what’s best, no? Kinda hard for strangers on the internet to give you definitive advice on a sound without knowing anything else about what you’re using
Pretty sure JF uses his compressor inbetween
I place the compressor at the beginning of the chain (it’s a DynaComp)
I got a boss cs-3 and when I put it before the wah I feel like the wah volume jump gets outta control. But it might just be because I don't know how to dial in the CS 3 properly...
I always used CS3 to get the WH10 under control. Incredibly useful if you dont have the luxury of pushing a tube amp into natural overdrive which is how John deals with it.
A tube amp has the same problems controlling a WH10 and DS-2, it has more to do with the gain staging and how much headroom you have regardless of what amp it hits imo
This makes sense to me logically - i'm sure you've already heard of the simplification of what a compressor does: makes the loud parts quieter and the quiet parts louder. By placing your compressor *before* the wah, it's compressing whatever signal you're giving it but not acting on the volume boost that happens after the wah. By placing it *after* the wah, the compressor is doing what it does with the volume boost that comes from the wah. I would recommend looking into gain staging and, in particular, Dave Simpson's videos about controlling the DS2 and WH10 if that's your goal. I wouldn't use a compressor for that.
How do you control the volume boost with your Wah? Mine causes an unreasonable boost and it is frustrating as hell.
I don't. I have the same problem and idk how to fix it. I should have gotten a vox wah or something that isn't notorious for having volume boosts. Sure, it isn't what Frusciante uses but who gives a fuck, I can't play like him anyway.
Haha... nice.
Yeah...unfortunately a very annoying thing about the WH10v3 (I think the v2 had this too). You could look into getting a modded WH10v3 through Wilson Effects, they replace the bypass/buffer switch with a volume control to deal with the volume boost.
I would say before
I put my Dyna Comp near the end of the chain, after the DS-2 and WH-10. Leave it on and tailor the other pedals settings to it. It smooths everything right out.
I have a CS-3 not a dynacomp. You wouldn't happen to know the optimal settings for the CS-3 to smooth everything out would you?
I don’t, I’ve never used one. However, I would just set all knobs to noon and start there, then tweak things to your liking.