SML Paris - SOURTPW Sourdine Wha-wha

If you've ever seen a guitarist waddle around on a Wha-Wha pedal, fiddling with his solo like a cat with a toy, you'll immediately grasp the spirit of SML's SOURTPW. This mute is to brass what the pedal is to the six-string: a machine for bending sound, making it mocking, grating and sometimes even theatrical.

The removable tube, in front of which your hand dances as if chasing flies, will modify the sound with the same flexibility as a foot on an effects pedal. At low volume, the effect makes you smile; at full power, it sounds like an angry duck stuck in a heating pipe.

In the hands of an inspired musician, the SOURTPW becomes the ideal tool for injecting a good dose of expressiveness, second degree or sonic irony. It's up to you whether you want to whisper, squeal or roar. It doesn't judge, it amplifies. You're not just going to play, you're going to make your horn speak.