Hosta Wah by Flower Pedals Demo on Guitar and Bass

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Hosta Wah by Flower Pedals Demo on Guitar and Bass

Hey, welcome to get offset. My name is Emily. I’m wearing this super cool shirt that you could yourself and at, uh, get offset podcast.com. The that’s not why I’m here. I am here with the hosta wah by flower pedals. Let me center that a little better. There we go. Um, this is a filter pedal. Not too dissimilar.

[00:00:28] When you think about it too, uh, pedal like the dusk by dr. scientists, like the dusk, it has three modes. It has an auto wah, which they call the LFO on the dusk. It has a fixed setting and it has an envelope filter setting. Uh, but less look at the controls that are the same with every mode. We have the level that’s the output level.

[00:00:58] Yeah. And the gain. And that’s the gain stage of the first thing that, the title that, the, the effect that, so, um, you can, it’s basically an input kind of. Gain it’s really, uh, I think essential for some of the settings as you’ll see, when you watch, um, the, the rest of the demo, uh, instead of having knobs to control, uh, how the filter works or the residents we have toggles.

[00:01:29] So there are three frequency settings. High middle and base, or so this controls where that like middle of the Wawa sound is, uh, from my understanding. Yeah. Then we have the queue and the queue might also be called resonance or frequency. It depends on the pedal. It’s called Q here, but we have, I have, um, a high, medium, low situation.

[00:02:03] They’re via the toggles. Um, so that’s the gist of the controls are the same with everything was really special about this pedal, um, is that well, one it has and ramp, so those are cool things to always have. Um, but it has secondary functions that you access by holding down this, um, The on and off switch and adjusting the parameters accordingly.

[00:02:34] And this takes some practice, um, just like with a Maris pedal that has the secondary functions. Uh, it can get away from you a little bit. So I had trouble with a few of them in the demo myself. Um, it’s partially because you know, when you’re trying to do something while looking at the pedal upside down, it’s a little, little tricky.

[00:02:55] So please like. Be a little forgiving there. A little bit of grace, isn’t it? Yes. Um, but so the first setting is the Ottawa and yeah, the B control here, you can pretty clearly see if controls shape of, uh, the LFO and a controls, the speed you can tap in the speed. Um, so as you can see there, the indicator light has changed.

[00:03:23] And you can do ramping so you can hold up, set your, the speed that you want it to ramp up, to turn it back down, and then you can set how quickly you want that ramping that happened. So let’s put that over there. And so you can see it’s really slow now. And then. It’s going to get faster. Nice. That worked very cool.

[00:03:52] Let’s move on to the fixed setting. And this is the one that gave me the most trouble. So you said I recommend setting the secondary parameter first for any of the functions. That’s just easier. I know it’s called secondary because it’s not what’s on the pedal, but it is the first thing you should do. So let’s hold this, turn this guy over here.

[00:04:17] Release. So then, uh, so this controls, the, the different, like wasp, the, the, the, the different filter sounds. So you set one, you said the other, you change something and then over here with the secondary, you can control if it’s non-matching. So if you want a momentary. Go between us and this one also controls the speed by which you, you swap those around.

[00:04:50] So that’s momentary. And then if you move it over here, it’s latching. Neat. Right? So that means you can basically have like a watt pedal and get that wall going through, even if you don’t have, um, An expression pedal, which you could plug in and then it would work like a wall pedal. Also, it would just the using that instead of the Stu Hickey.

[00:05:19] Finally, we have, um, the filter and this is the one where you’re especially going to want to turn the gain up. So I’m a, the threshold for the envelope detection. And a, B controls, the sensitivity, pretty standard stuff for envelope filters. Um, I definitely feel like you need to have the gain up a bit here.

[00:05:45] Um, you can turn the volume down a little bit to compensate for any, uh, increases volume, but, uh, yeah, I think that my favorite feature is probably the, my favorite setting is probably the, the auto, the Ottawa. I just find them fun. Um, The envelope’s really cool too, but just the ability to go, like with the fix to go between two settings like that.

[00:06:12] Well done well done. Um, enough of me talking, I hope you enjoy the rest of the day demo. All right. I got my Squire paranormal series supersonic with Lawler Imperials, a quail split. So these are single coils right now. I think that’d be fun. Uh, striving or radium round B setting. So.

[00:06:48] Hey,

[00:06:57] let’s start playing around with these settings then we’ll probably leave them alone a little bit.

[00:07:04] Toggle up and toggle both tacos up. Now let’s do the middle and down. Um,

[00:07:13] and or let’s do from

[00:07:24] now. Let’s see frequency low Q at the top.

[00:07:43] Let’s do frequency in the middle to frequency at the top Q in the middle. Mmm,

[00:08:01] let’s do that. Can you at the bottom now? And.

[00:08:17] Let’s do Q at the top frequency at the bottom,

[00:08:30] trying to speed that up just so we can hear it faster. Q in the middle.

[00:08:45] Both at the bottom.

[00:08:55] Yeah. And we’re just going to leave them. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Uh let’s let’s try that again. Okay.

[00:09:28] Let’s leave them both in the middle.

[00:09:47] wow.

[00:10:04] Cool. Let’s move the speed down.

[00:10:13] No,

[00:10:17] they get the secondary setting going.

[00:10:22] We’re going to ramp up to there. How quickly are we going to do that right here? So let’s drop that down.

[00:10:35] Nice.

[00:10:40] Yeah, that works.

[00:11:21] cool.

[00:11:58] So, this is what was confusing to me, honestly. So let’s do one setting up here

[00:12:08] and then let’s do the other setting over here, I guess. And then latching.

[00:13:13] uh,

[00:13:31] I guess the speed. That was what I was doing wrong. Mmm.

[00:13:38] Mmm.

[00:13:45] Hey.

[00:13:50] Yeah, let me, let me look at something really quickly, because this is the one that I had to read over and over. Um, yep. Okay. They’re all fixed wall setting. So turning this won’t do anything. It’s all about these. It’s all about this tap and the ramp on the setting. So let me go a little bit Wilder with it.

[00:14:17] it does fade between those things.

[00:14:43] that was a little bit confusing. Uh it’s really seems like you should start with the,

[00:14:54] I want to go over here. Set high frequency, low base. Cool. I’m going to go over here. High frequency, high Bay

[00:15:14] and I’m going to set that to latching.

[00:15:32] Nice. Cool. I figured that out feels good. Let’s go with the envelope setting. Okay.

[00:15:43] Let’s get them both in the middle. Just for funsies.

[00:16:01] Over here.

[00:17:17] Mmm.

[00:17:42] Yeah.

[00:18:01] Yeah. Wow.

[00:18:21] Uh,

[00:18:35] Yeah.

[00:18:57] Welcome back it’s time for the base. Part of the video, John, my fender player series, Mustang bass, and, um, my studio rumble 40 by fender. All right.

[00:19:20] Like before let’s just filter through the sounds.

[00:19:41] Oops.

[00:20:03] Or

[00:20:27] I, again, think I will actually know how I’m going to do the frequency of the bottom. And then the residents

[00:20:39] at the top there

[00:21:07] It saved my settings. Let’s it was more game because some of these settings do sound a lot better with Morgan. I think the envelopes filter especially sounds best with the gang. Right? I just have to check my, watch my volume levels.

[00:21:45] I turned that back to the middle.

[00:21:50] All right, let’s do the next setting.

[00:22:29] cool. And on the envelope filter.

[00:24:08] But that was a look at the hostel law by flower pedals. It is, uh, if you just look at part of it, it seems similar to a pedal like the dusk, but this has a whole slew of different features. Uh, it is more of a read the manual pedal in my opinion, um, because of the secondary parameters. So it’s a little less simple on that, but if you want the ability to control different things, I really thought that the, having the fixed with the two settings, um, and being able to go between them like a wall pedal without having a wall pedal on your board was really neat.

[00:24:47] Um, once I figured that out, which that did take a little bit of work, as you said, uh, I didn’t do it right the first time. I don’t think. Um, but it was, it’s really neat. I really liked being able to control the input game because I feel like some of the settings need it most notably the, uh, envelope filter needs needs to have the suggested, which shouldn’t be surprising.

[00:25:10] That’s how envelope filters work. Um, and then I liked the, uh, the Ottawa a lot. Uh, it has. Fewer settings than the desperate active scientist. I don’t want to compare this pose too much in this video. Maybe I’ll do it. The separate video doing them side by side, a little bit of a shoot off kind of thing.

[00:25:31] But this, as far as, um, like everything I think you’d probably ever want in a filter pedal, it has so much stuff. It’s really, really neat. Um, and I would consider myself. A fan. So check it out. Flower pedals, they have a website. Uh, they also are on, you can buy their pedals on reverb. And if you use the link in the video description, it’s an affiliate link.

[00:25:57] We do get 1% back on the things that you buy, uh, there. So that’s the kind of, I think that helps keep this channel going if you like it. Uh, so once again, thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding like comment subscribe until next time. My name is Emily goodbye.