JAM Pedals Seagull Cocked Wah vs Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter
The JAM Pedals Seagull Cocked Wah and the Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter are both pedals sharing dynamic, analog warmth. The JAM Pedals Seagull Cocked Wah leans mid-forward. Current prices: $205 vs $270.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.38% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Soul
- Funk
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- dynamic
- analog warmth
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$205via Reverb
$270via Reverb
The JAM Pedals Seagull is a cocked-wah pedal, reproducing the fixed midrange peak you get by leaving a wah treadle parked at one position rather than sweeping it. That is a specific and much-imitated sound — the nasal, vocal midrange of a stopped wah — and building it as a fixed circuit removes the treadle and the need to hold a position. JAM build in Greece with hand-painted enclosures. It suits players who use a parked-wah tone as a voice rather than an effect they sweep.
The Maxon AF-9 Auto Filter is an analog envelope filter that opens and closes an optical photocoupler filter in response to pick attack, producing the warm, vowel-like, liquid and shimmering sweep associated with vintage units like the Mu-Tron III. It offers low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass filter modes with switchable direction, plus threshold and peak controls that shape how quickly and how far the filter sweeps. Two selectable frequency ranges let it track both guitar and bass cleanly. It is closely associated with funk and soul playing, where its liquid, three-dimensional quacking response reacts directly to how hard notes are picked, and it remains a favored alternative to pricier vintage envelope filters for players chasing that vowel-like auto-wah character.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Alternative Rock
- Metal
- mid-forward