re auto wah and effects pedals in general

["alciere" <alciere@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, the Space Animals effects expert says you have to practice your 
effects with the band. If you have two guitars, a loud drummer, and a bass 
player, using a fat flanged or chorused sound will sound like mud-hard to 
cut through the mix. Think Hendrix or the Who-bass drums and effected 
guitar.Beck's O Delay has some nice ultra distorted harp-just make some room 
for it.That being said also remember that a lot of Hendrix's most tripped 
out stuff was just him, his guitar, and a Marshall stack(well a little 
lighter fluid too)-check out the Monteray Pop video. 

I do most of the Space Animals synth programming. If you want your harp to 
sound like a synth, keep the sound simple. A synthesizer plays a basic sound 
wave, usually run through a filter to knock off even more overtones. You can 
stack all these sounds on top of each other and it sounds great at home, but 
live it sounds awful.Listen to Bernie Worrel's stuff with Parliament-nice 
treble, in your face riffs, cut like a knife. His bass playing is 
extrodinary. 

Don't forget we're playing music which means use your ears.If the harp 
doesn't fit the song, no matter how cool it sounds, it's in the way. Simple 
usually is better-check out Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads, A3, Counting 
Crowes or Beck. Yeah there's a lot of wild stuff going on, but a lot of 
space too. 

Rainbow Jimmy
http://www.spaceanimals.com
http://www.mp3.com/spaceanimals