A real expressive wah. Full pedal travel, no dropout at heel or toe, four voices plus Manual, and a nonlinear ZDF core that growls when you dig in. Binds to a MIDI expression pedal in two clicks, then calibrates to your own foot, that part matters, see below. Flip NORM to NERD for the Q / Grit / Sweep screws, same as NoAMP’s wah.
Cut from the same board as NoAMP. Same engine, same war paint, on the house.
New in v0.7.2: the name in the brand band is set in the line’s new open-licensed typeface (and the Ill Sea logo beside it wears the same bevel), and the zip now lists the open-source software inside (THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt).
New in v0.7.0: the line’s new look, a fourth voice (Hollywood, a modern studio-clean wah), and Wines now only holds the MIDI device you bound it to, so your other programs keep their pedalboards and controllers.
Read the manual → (it’s also inside the zip)
NORM: the pedal, the Mode, the calibration.
NERD: Q, Grit and Sweep, the deep screws.
1. Right-click the on-screen pedal → MIDI Learn → rock your expression pedal once. It’s bound.
2. Put your pedal heel all the way down → click SET LOW.
3. Put your pedal toe all the way down → click SET HIGH.
4. Sweep. The whole sweep range now lives inside your pedal’s real physical travel, no dead zones at the ends, no wah that “stops” halfway. Redo it any time you change pedals; it’s saved machine-wide, once.
Full control reference on the Wines manual page. If your USB MIDI pedal ever goes silent until you replug it, Windows put it to sleep, two-minute fix.
