Simple DIY Wah Pedals and much more in EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS JUNE 1976 

I am confused about the input and output connection to the circuit.could you clarify the connection?

@@sambaedankhanal343 The input uses a switched jack socket so that plugging the cable into it switches it on, and the bypass switch is double-pole so that it completely bypasses the filter unlike some (even some commercial ones) that leave one or other end of the circuit connected so that even when "bypassed", the filter still has some effect on the sound.

nice!!! yeah Vero is pretty prominent in these I guess they were the free sample of the year!!!!!!

yeah practical electronics is snazzy!!! managed to get a few and been reading definitely heavier, thinking of covering one next

@@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE You should put the link i posted in the description when you do these, it's a very useful resource

I was about 12 years old when I first started reading everyday electronics. It was aimed at people with no previous experience and the projects were super simple and quick to make. Later I moved on to reading more advanced publications like Wireless World , Elektor and Electronics Today International (ETI) magazine. The late '70s and '80s were a boom era for hobby electronics and there was no shortage of magazine titles on the subject.

iim not sure if its the same link as the one you popped on! but there is a link in the description of all of the magazines. is it the same one?>

@@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE heh, i said i was going to post the link but forgot :P Yes it's the same one as in the description that i also posted last time ;)

HAS TO BE, RIGHT?

Precisely.

Damn I wish I could find mine, it got lost in the mists of time but whilst building several eurorack kits recently I wish I still had it, wonder if someone still makes them, have to search ebay or amazon :-)

I still have mine but it's a horrible blue-green colour rather than the funky 70's orange one that Sam has in the video. Maybe they just shipped random colours or maybe there was another issue of the magazine that gave this thing away. Not sure but I'm guessing the former

That was the standard method back in the 60s when the wah pedal was first invented (and of course several manufacturers are still making clones of the early ones using inductors) but all the designs I've seen in magazines used simple RC filters, which sound just as good (to me anyway) and are much cheaper to build, as large inductors were quite expensive back then and even more so today. I've built lots of wah pedals of various kinds over the last 40-odd years and I think all of those were RC designs, and when I built my very first self-designed synth, I chained two together to make a simple VCF, which worked well although a wah filter is bandpass and I had to modify the circuits a bit to get a variable lowpass effect which was a bit crappy but still really cool given that I was still in school when I designed that (mid 70s)

Ooooooo, Sam Battle with "The joy of electronics"

magic arm

oh nice!!!

Well,resonance is still possible as the circuit will have some inductance.

You don't need an inductor to make a band pass filter. Look at the T made by the two horizontal caps and the vertical resistors.

nice!

ha tbh its meant to be a bad effort for the accent. like krypton on red dwarf. bad English effort of American accents are funny. in my opinion! but yeah ha.

@@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE I like the experimentation with accents, can you also do this in a Aussie or a Kiwi accent or a Hyacinth Bucket accent for extra comedic effect?

Reverb has a BUNCH of broken wah pedals for cheap.

thanks ill do it more often :D

lol cant please em all. im still gunna do it :D. cringe or not cringe

I like the idea. I can hear it being read over a fully animated cartoon of that sketch at the top of the article. It's funny, lighthearted, and appropriate for the ham radio crowd & vintage audio gear junkies alike. What's there to cringe at? "old time radio voice" is pretty damn specific, so I say kudos! God bless this fella for sharing what he loves.

Wrong channel, sounds like Practical Woodworking you're looking for