FLAMMA FC11 Auto Wah Pedal Envelope Filter Guitar Effects Pedal True Bypass for Guitar and Bass

Love it after a few trial and errors on fine tuning it for bass guitar. Thought I'd just try it since it's very cheap (compared to "name brand" pedals) and go buy one after goofing around with it. but don't think I'll be doing that, keeping this for sure. Very compact, very sturdy, very small footprint . Wife ordered me a gate pedal after looking at their other pedals. Will look at getting other pedals from Flamma. Only con was that I tried to register the pedal but on the website it said the serial number didn't exist.... not a huge thing so far.

I wanted to try auto wah / envelope filter on my basses for funk without spending much, so since I've enjoyed Flamma products in the past, I decided to give the FLAMMA FC11 Auto Wah Pedal a shot. First, be aware that it's tiny, and it requires a power supply. I had spots left on my power supply, so I was fine with that. It doesn't use a battery, so you will need a power supply. After trying it with a Jazz bass and a Bronco, here's what I found. This pedal offers somewhat subtle quack - it's there, and you can absolutely hear it. The odd thing is you can hear it more when playing with moderate attack - if you slap, the quack becomes inaudible. I'm guessing that if you use this pedal with a compressor, you'll be able to adjust things so you always get quack, but I don't use a compressor as I like to vary my dynamics, so when I slap or play hard would be when I want more quack, and this pedal doesn't do that. I think if you use a compressor ahead of this pedal on your signal chain or simply don't play very hard, you'll get enough quack to deliver some funk or other styles where you need auto wah. Not only does this pedal NOT suck the bass out of my tone (yay!), but And it is silent - no hiss, no hum, no snap, crackle or pop. And you can't beat the price plus if you have only a part of a space on your board, chances are this pedal will fit. Overall, a good pedal at an excellent price, if not quite what I had in mind.

My other half went nuts when he got this for Christmas. He installed it to his equipment and uses it when he plays at his shows and man on man does it sound good and it makes him so happy. It's also smaller than it looks. The controls are easy to use as well.

I was lookin` high and lookin` low, then along comes this pedal which is by far the lowest priced by over $100 than anything"that works well anyway" and it appears to be about as good as anything I`ve seen in youtube reviews to at least experiment with the Jerry sound for a lot of those dead tunes that if you love them, you really need to have that whatever you want to call it but I call it or think of it as a compressed wah sound and Jerry friggin caught it, tamed it and made it his own with the electro harmonix Q-tron. But those cost $300 and yes they have more range. BUT-this does the job if you want to hear it period. the range it clips into it and has less range or degree of adjustment and it`s not as fine tuning but It still gets the 5`s because it does it all for $30 so you can go do what you do with what you can afford and if you can afford more and read reviews or just buy them until you find your holy grail-go at it ladies and gents, but this old soul isn`t in that tax bracket these days. And again this more than does the job so why search furthur? Ah furthur, miss those days.... Be cool, be kind and mostly just be who you are and be happy without making others unhappy, in others words trite or not: Peace out.

***Update*** It doesn't make any sense to me, but when I plugged these into my board's power brick they didn't work. My other 5 pedals did so I didn't suspect the power supply. I connected my Flamma to a new pedalboard power supply and it suddenly behaved correctly. I retract my previous harsh review .

Not quite enuf B-WOP! for stage use, but for $26 not bad

So reading these reviews it’s clear once again that envelope filters are too hard for most musicians to figure out. I will try to explain. This isn’t an auto-wah, if you want one of those maybe Joyo Wow Wah would help. Wahs shift around a peaking filter, while this Flamma shifts around a resonant high pass filter (HPF). This is the same kind of filter used in most synths, and indeed Moog has long made an envelope filter pedal. What synths call Resonance this calls “Q” and what synths call Cutoff Frequency this calls “Tone.” “Decay” is similar to the ADSR decay on a filter that is following an envelope. Armed with that knowledge (though you may know nothing about synths but carry on), we can have some initial settings to try. I suggest setting Q and Tone in the top quarter of the range if not dimed. decay in the lower half of the range, maybe 11:00. Engage the pedal with the switch, the light will turn on if powered properly, and then comes the hard part: sensitivity. The sensitivity control decides when to trigger a sweep of this resonant HPF based on how loud the incoming signal gets. Sweep the control slowly through its entire range to start hearing the quacking of the filter. This is a very unironically sensitive control and it has to be nailed to the signal level for good sweeps to happen. Therefore you may need to compress or distort your signal *before* hitting this pedal, which will give it an even volume level to work with and sweep best on. The nice thing about this type of pedal is it maintains full bass information as it works. An auto-wah typically does not…meaning the envelope filter is favored for bass and synth use and the auto-wah for electric guitars. But you can use any with any understanding the tradeoffs. Otherwise, this is a completely terrific deal, really the only thing that could be improved much is the sensitivity could be more forgiving in its setting. It has to be perfectly nailed to how loud the signal is coming into the pedal otherwise you won’t sweep. Also, if your signal doesn’t have much high frequency information to resonate it won’t be a particularly strong effect. But this pedal sounds good here, however, realize I know this stuff inside and out and you are forgiven if this is too hard to get right in practice.

My EH Qtron mini died on me and I needed something inexpensive and decent with quick delivery to hold me over. It sounds great, very useable and will scratch the "Jerry sound" itch when you need it. I don't expect it to last forever, but you can't beat the price vs fun factor here.

廉価だから試しにと思って購入したら、とんでもなく良いです！ 気付いたら3時間遊んでましたww 同じ効果を得るのに、楽器によりセッティングを微妙に変える必要があるので持ち替えをする場合は注意してくださいね 私はベースですが、ギターでも良い効果でした！

Más allá de que el costo/beneficio es muy bueno con creces, el pedal funciona muy bien, el efecto es notable y manejable. Recomendado al 100%. Es el tercer o cuarto pedal que compro de FLAMA y hasta ahora todos me han gustado mucho, muy buena marca.

Un pedal 3B Bueno Bonito Barato, muy aconsejable la compra. Envio muy rápido antes de la fecha anunciada.👍

This is a KILLER auto-wah! Clean sound, very responsive, lots of flexibility, excellent tones. Get your Jerry Garcia on! This pedal was my first by Flamma, and I now own several of their pedals, and so far they have all been excellent. Solid build, good features, really can't go wrong.

Muy bueno