Odd problems with a wah pedal and amplitube 2

[Geoffrey Taucer]

For some reason, my wah-wah pedal doesn't work in conjunction with amplitube 2. When I run a signal from guitar to wah-wah to amp, it works perfectly. When I run a signal from guitar to wah-wah to mixer (and thus to amplitube), it works fine when I turn the wah off, but when I stomp it to engage the wah, the signal gets completely muted.

Any ideas why this might happen?

[Legion303]

Any ideas why this might happen?

I'm assuming you aren't stupid, but I still have to ask: is this a wah/volume combo pedal? And are you sure you're changing it to wah and not "volume 0"?

-steve

[Tensei]

Might just be a hunch, but sometimes when I get the same problem it's either because the Wah's powersource has been disconnected while moving it (Of course, if you use batteries that wouldn't happen), or because I didn't stomp the Wah correctly, so it goes into a phase between On and Bypass, where the signal is indeed muted.

Oh wait! I remember, it MIGHT have something to do with the input levels. If I recall correctly Amplitube 2 uses a noisegate that's always active, so if you have it DI'd into your Mic Entrance (Not sure of your recording chain and if it has a pre-amp)and because the fact that the Wah chops off a lot of the original signal, it might be muted because the noisegate kicks in.

[Hale-Bopp]

I'm assuming you aren't stupid, but I still have to ask: is this a wah/volume combo pedal? And are you sure you're changing it to wah and not "volume 0"?

-steve

That was the very first thing that I thought of too, because I used to do this with my pedal...because I am a dumb.

I'm gonna have to try this out later on when I get home and see if I have the same issue. I have yet to try my wah pedal with amplitube actually. Of course, my setup is kinda weird as it is. I don't have a DI box, so I go guitar > pod (yeah, I know) > sound card > sonar/amplitube.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

No, it's just a wah, not a volume/wah. Powersource was still connected. If it was because I stomped it incorrectly, then I stomped it incorrectly on about fifteen attempts hooked up to the computer, and have never once stomped it incorrectly hooked up to an amp.

[Sixto]

That's really odd. Doesn't make any sense... What wah pedal are you using?

[Geoffrey Taucer]

A Josh-oo-wah -- it's a prototype wah designed and built by my cousin.

[Sixto]

True-bypass?

[Geoffrey Taucer]

True-bypass.

[Fray]

Josh-oo-wah

Lol, the name alone makes me want one

[SnappleMan]

I just recently started having the same problem, I think it's because I wore out the pad on the underside of the top half of the pedal that presses the switch on the bottom half... now the switch can't get pressed...not really a similar problem at all , is it... though it does make me sad.

[SnappleMan]

But wait, the wah is a dynamic pedal, it gradually changes the effect depending on the position of the pedal... so then what's the switch for and why did pedal stop working with amplitube 2?