Question for Piet: Wow&Flutter HW DIY project?

[Bojan]

Piet, I was just wondering, now that you have finished your extremely successful eTAP2HW DIY project, which incorporates wow & flutter, how difficult would it be to take the eTAP2HW's wow & flutter component and make a separate wow & flutter hardware device that could be used with existing delay pedals to enhance their sound?

I got this idea when I was installing Johan's J-Patches into a friend's Zoom RFX2000. I plugged the Zoom into my PC and added a wow & flutter vst plugin and it sounded MUCH better, so I thought it would really be great to have a separate adjustable wow & flutter device to use with our existing delay pedals. Or perhaps something like a hardware version of your DESO WF plugin module.

Is any of this even possible?

Cheers,
Bojan

[roger bayliss]

Hi Bojan

Before Peit replies I thought I would mention something that can work. I have used two echos in the past to add modulation to an echo. On the Tonelab LE for instance you can use a multitap and a modulation delay together to get good echos. I tend to use the single modulated delay on the end of the set of delays and make it the loudest and main head for repeats so to speak. A similar thing could be accomplished with two discrete delay pedals by carfully adding them together with one having modulation capability.

HTH

[Bojan]

Not bad Roger, but what I had in mind was something that would be able to provide all the so-called artefacts, not just modulation, or wow, but also flutter and saturation, which I think are very important. Piet's marvelous eTAP2 vst plugin has all that, and when I play through it I have everything necessary to recreate Hank's sound (at least that is what it sounds like to me). The patches are spot on, and the incorporated wow & flutter and saturation give the sound a fantastic texture. Now all of this is avaibale in hardware form with the new eTAP2HW, but since so many of us already have one of more perfectly good delay pedals loaded with different kinds of Shadows patches, which are all great, a separate DIY hardware device that would provide wow & flutter and saturation, would do the trick and we would not have to throw away or sell off the perfectly good delay pedals that we already have.

Since all of this is Piet's' "labor of love" and he is not interested in making a profit, a new wow&flutter device would not jeopardize his eTAP2HW in any way; in fact it would create even greater interest for his products by an even wider number of Shadows fans.

The more I think about it, the better it sounds!!!