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# Illthy Winesa real wah under your foot · free

Free VST3 MIDI pedal ready

A genuine expressive wah, full pedal travel with no dropout at heel or toe, three genre voicings, and a nonlinear ZDF core that growls when you dig in.

THE 2-MINUTE MIDI PEDAL SETUP, don't skip this. Every expression pedal sends a different range; Set Low / Set High calibrate Wines to YOURS so the sweep uses your pedal's full physical travel:

1. Bind the pedal: right-click the on-screen pedal → MIDI Learn → rock your expression pedal once. Bound.
2. Heel all the way down (pedal fully back) → click SET LOW.
3. Toe all the way down (pedal fully forward) → click SET HIGH.
4. Sweep. The whole voicing range now lives inside your pedal's real travel, no dead zones at the ends, no wah that "stops" halfway. Redo it any time you change pedals.

The calibration is saved machine-wide, set it once, every session and every preset respects it.

## Controls

Control | What it does
--- | ---
Pedal | The sweep. Mouse-drag it, or bind your MIDI expression pedal (above).
Voicing | Three genre voicings, different sweep ranges and resonance characters.
Set Low / Set High | Pedal calibration, see the box above. Can't miss it. Don't skip it.
Output | Level trim after the filter.
NERD: Q / Grit / Sweep | Resonance width, input-stage grit, and the sweep-law shape, the deep screws.

## In NoAMP

The rig's WAH is this same engine plus two rig-only powers: Route (wah before or after your dirt) and Override Preset, a checkbox that makes YOUR wah setup global, so presets stop touching the wah entirely (the move when a physical pedal is bound). Wah can also go private per amp.

## Specs, tersely

Core | nonlinear zero-delay-feedback state-variable filter; drive-dependent harmonics
Travel | continuous full-range sweep law, no heel/toe clicks, no end-of-travel dropout
Control | MIDI CC (any), full calibration, smoothed position, bedroom-level clean sweeps

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