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Ever since Parliament’s funk savior Starchild brandished his bop gun to bring about intergalactic Funkentelechy, the faithful have longed to create bass tones as cosmic as those conjured by Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, and a host of other P-Funk players. While there’s far more to funk than gadgets and gear, a single effect created helped create that signature sound: the envelope filter (sometimes called an auto wah or envelope follower). Like a wah pedal in hyperdrive, an envelope filter uses the strength of the input to control a triggered frequency sweep that notches out certain frequencies while boosting others, creating the characteristic pyow, bwip, and dyoop effects guaranteed to tear the roof off the mother sucker.

Musitronics ceased production of the iconic Mu-Tron III envelope filter used on so many classic recordings in 1980, but several pedal manufactures have stepped in to fill the void. And Eden’s CaliforniWAH Bass Filter is the latest such filter pedal designed specifically for bass.

The CaliforniWAH’s controls are fairly intuitive: The effect-level knob adjusts, well, just that. The low-point knob sets the frequency where the effect kicks in. Resonance regulates the amount of feedback at the cutoff frequency, while sensitivity determines the pedal’s response relative to the player’s dynamics. A red “voice” push button toggles between two tonal contours. (More on those in a bit.)

The CaliforniWAH is reassuringly sturdy, with an industrial steel chassis, knurled metal knobs, and durable pots. The pedal gets its juice from an included 15V power supply, and can’t run on battery power. While I like the pedal’s overall fit and feel, I found knob settings difficult to read while the pedal is in use because the side-positioned value indicators are best viewed from the side.

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