ZVEX Effects Super Seek Wah Filter (Vexter Series)

Z.VEX Effects Super Seek Wah Filter (Vexter Series)

How to explain the seek-wah. I have put off making this instruction
sheet for quite a long time. It's already been used on several major
label recordings, and I'm finally getting around to this. Oh well. Gotta
start sometime.
I know it may be confusing, but just relax and let
the seek-wah guide your tempo. When you turn it on, it will probably be
playing a pattern already. Put the leftmost knob in about the middle,
and turn a couple of the other eight knobs to the left. There's a little
notch in each knob so you can tell it's position, and an LED by each
wah control that shows which is active and by it's brightness, the wah
setting. Put the tiny switch in the MIDDLE position. That sets it to 8
steps. Strum a chord and let it hang, and listen to the tempo of the
unit. Bob your head to the tempo, and strum again... If you want it to
be a little faster turn the leftmost knob (speed) to the LEFT, and if
you want it to be a little slower turn it to the RIGHT. I know, I know,
all the knobs are backwards... that's because when i tried to make them
go forwards they got jumpy at the rightmost position. It just sounded so
much better to have them go the other way. Complain to Alpha
manufacturing. They make 'em.

Basically, the seek-wah is sort of a
combination of a tremolo and a wah wah pedal. If you're familiar with
seventies synths, it's exactly like an analog sequencer controlling a
mellow bandpass filter. You have a choice between 4, 6, or 8 steps for
your wah. The 6 step positions works well with 6/8 or 3/4 time songs.
The seek-wah steps through from one wah setting to another and starts
over after it gets to the end of the sequence. There's a total of 9
knobs, the leftmost being a speed control, and the other being wah
settings, which get brighter when you turn them to the left. You can set
up patterns which accentuate notes in arpeggiated chords at particular
spots... it can be really pretty if you play in time with the tempo and
play repeating patterns, with the same or changing chords. Rather
hypnotic.

Or, you can set the thing to do a sort of tremolo echo,
with the knobs set like this: 7:00, 5:00, 8:00, 5:00, 11:00, 5:00,
2:00, 5:00 (these are o'clock positions, not spinal tap 1-11). Then set
the speed control for a happy tempo. Heck, there's so many things you
can set it to do, like set a tempo that closely matches the tempo of a
song you're overdubbing a part on, sample a nice part on the seek wah,
and midi trigger the sample so that it stays in time with the song
perfectly. I know you can come up with a zillion ways to use it... How
do I know? CUZ IT HAS SO MANY KNOBS!

The revamped Super Seek versions
of our classic designs include a ton of new features, many of which
people have been asking for and suggesting to us for years.
Z.VEX Effects Super Seek Wah Filter (Vexter Series) Features:

Tap tempo
MIDI IN/THRU for sync
Expression pedal ports
Glissando control between steps for groove and swing
Hold feature
Ability to choose between 1-16 steps in the sequence for any time signature you could dream up
Delta control from our Sonar for ramping speed up and down and more
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