Dumbest Question Ever

Stupid Question: Has anybody ever made a Bass Wah pedal that sounds like a frog? (yes, a frog.) I know they've made pedals that when used the right way, can make sounds like Birds, Horses, Elephants etc. But is there a Bass Wah (or other effect) that makes a "Ribbit" or "Croaking" noise like a frog?

what sort of frog, African or European?

Hahaha! So lemme guess, you're a Lovecraft fan and a Monty Python fan?

In all seriousness though, do you know if there's anywhere I could find something remotly like this?

there was a korg synth in the 70s, I think the micropreset, that had a preset called chirpy frog.... but for a bass? I'm not really sure wah is the way to make a ribbit, its just an inductor based bandpass filterwhere the resitor in the filter is varaible, the pot, changing the center frequency.... when i think frog I'm thinking something a little more complex. Remeber crispy frog? It should in bold letters 'contains lark's vomit!!!'

you might want to look into more of a filter type pedal, maybe not an autowah/envelop filter but something in the moogerfooger of minifooger line maybe. Its going to take a whole chain of fx in a weird order to make a bass ribbit like the jumping frog of calaveras county.

This is actually the kind of question I want to see more of. I'd love to hear what you plan to use this for.

A quick google search for "frog" pedals offers the Shoe Pedals Frog, an octave fuzz that gets its name for sounding ribbity sometimes, but you're probably wanting a pedal that sounds more consistently like a frog.

With a fuzz before it, the Electro-Harmonix Blurst can do some pretty croaky/ribbity filter sweeps on the rising sawtooth mode; check out the demo at 3:03. It also has an expression input for manual control. You can adjust the resonance and frequency range for the best croak.

Alternatively, there seems to be a frog-branded auto wah by Made By Mystery called the Amphibian, since the sound can come across as bubbly/watery at times with its step sequencer.

Now I wonder what the Frog and the Blurst would sound like together...

This is actually the kind of question I want to see more of. I'd love to hear what you plan to use this for.

I don't really have a plan for it, I've just seen where some artists do this kind of thing, like Steve Vai making a sound like a Horse with a Wah pedal or EVH making an Elephant sound with some fancy hand work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PdDcTCB0Ec

...but you're probably wanting a pedal that sounds more consistently like a frog.

Yeah, I'm looking for something where you get kind of a rib-it type sound from putting the pedal forward and back real quick, (assuming that it's a Wah) with one half of the sweep making the rib and the other half making the it.

Another thing I've been wondering about: Is there any effect that can make a Guitar or Bass sound like a classical stringed instrument like a Violin or Cello?

use a roland ready strat LOL

it really sounds like you need to get a synthesizer or 2 and a symphonic library! let your bass be a bass

A quick google search for "frog" pedals offers the Shoe Pedals Frog, an octave fuzz that gets its name for sounding ribbity sometimes, but you're probably wanting a pedal that sounds more consistently like a frog.

a fuzz that sounds ribbity would be close enough like me, but I have synths and samplers.... I could play a whole melody in frog samples, ferris beuller cough style, if I wanted.... which sounds fun actually

Another thing I've been wondering about: Is there any effect that can make a Guitar or Bass sound like a classical stringed instrument like a Violin or Cello?

The first thing that comes to mind is the aptly-named EBow. The current version is the EBow Plus, which will set you back $99.95 new. TC Electronic made their own version called the Aeon which costs about $69.

You can also use volume envelopes to fade in the attack and simulate a bowed sound. That’s fairly easy to do in any DAW. Options in stompbox form are the Mooer Slow Engine (a Boss SG-1 Slow Gear clone) and the Electro-Harmonix Attack Decay reissue. You can also do this manually with any volume pedal.

Fuzz is another alternative. At the 3:52 mark of the old Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone demo, the guitarist plays a hollowbody through the fuzz to fake a cello sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWwBEx3Qkc?t=3m52s

maestro FZ1s rarely sound like that.... you have to have the blessed unit with a non-leaking Q1 and perfectly gainstaged Q2 and Q3 (this is doubly true of the FZ1a).... they just threw those texas isntruments transistors in there, no testing so they vary wildly and err toward funky faux brass rather than badass cello.... for that get a tonebender. But a Tonebender mk1, the elusive one that ronson used on ziggy...

maestro FZ1s rarely sound like that....

To be fair, it is a controlled demo.

I'm sure they had a bin of them and grabbed a few and used the best sounding unit.... there was no QC on these, not like the echoplex at all, the insides of the 2 I had were awful, I rebuilt one it was so messy, took the noise down and swapped out a bad transistor for an NOS TI, the germanium TI transistors in there used to be available. I probably still have a few if anyone needs an FZ1 or FZ1a that needs help...