Boss FW-3 Foot Wah

Easy,Very easy...

Very good quality (when it worked)

I don't know how "Reliability" means in English...

I don't know

I play Punk-HardCore and Reaggae-Ska music with my band... but a day when I was very drunk (like now), I pressed my feet too hard and I broke it (GOD BASTARD!!!!) so I tried to get it work making some thing and it work a lot now, but i'm drunk anyway... I'm drunk always.... nye bye bye bye

I bought it used over eBay. Looked cosmetically perfect. Pretty much was appearnce-wise. A handsome pedal, but not as solid as other Boss products. Didn't receive the manual, so I can't comment on that.
Step and go. Tweak the peak knob. Step mo'. I could not get it to switch off, I had to unplug it to cycle the power.

Used it with a Peavey solid-state amp which I've been real pleased with with my other pedals, (some Boss, some not). Also playing thru a Tacocaster/Mexistrat. Didn't like the lack of richness in the wah. It sounded a bit thin and squirrley for my tastes--even on a non-tube rig..

It's metal.

Never had to deal with Roland/Boss. But their stuff looks solid (usually).

I'm going to look for a good used Digitech XP100 Whammy, or maybe even a Digitech Space Station. I was tired of it's limited sound within a couple hours of playing it. There was not much pedal travel reange, so it was a challenge to modulate.

It's easy, just rock the pedal back and forth and jam with it. It has a filtering knob, wich I think adjusts the bandwidth of the frequency response. Set the knob at taste, and it's done.

It's good (i've never seen a bad wah pedal yet) BUT it's not as good as a crybaby, for example. It's more limited and (I don't know if this happens on a crybaby) there are some problem frequencies when the pedal is full back: it enhances a particular frequency, wich varies on something I haven't yet found out, so it might be more difficult to get a good sound in opposite to other pedals. There is a volume loss when on.

Boss! If you ever saw and/or tried one, you know what I mean.

Never even tried to contact them (didn't need to).

I only bought this because I coudn't afford a crybaby (here in Portugal they can actually cost $200) and some guy wanted to sell his wah pedal. I tried it and it's ok. With my DS-2, I can easily play Rage Against the Machine on my solid state amp. If you find one cheap, go ahead.

I bought it second hand and there was no manual but it has one knob. It's not too hard.
Every wah-wah pedal should get 10. Except when you think about it, to get it to sound good it's actually very difficult.

It's very good clean, but distorted, it can go a bit sudden change like bass bass bass bass bass bass bass treble treble treble and that sounds a bit shit. But clean its great it's like a gradual thing. 10 for clean, 7 for distorted, but I only use it clean.

Solid metal. I think the switching system might die on me one day - it looks pretty fragile - but it's second hand and shows no sign of going out yet. It's just speculation ...

I like BOSS - I called them to get pedal information and they were really friendly and sent me back stuff very fast.

As I said, great for clean stuff, a bit iffy distorted (well, when I say iffy, I mean not stunning). I love the adjustable peak knob thing, but it tends to be on either full or minimum when I play because that's all I ever use.
A couple of problems - the pedal doesn't rock back and forth that far so it's very sensitive and changes can be a bit sudden because of that. You just have to get used to it, but then it's great.
If I lost it and had to get a new pedal, I'd get a VOX, the silver metal one. It's really good, but huge and not great distorted. Oh, and why is it brown?

one knob which is called peak which adjusts the range of the wah.

I don't really know how to judge a wah but it sounds really good to my ears. It's really quiet too.

Can't say because it still new. But it is made of metal so I guess its real durable like the crybaby.

As I've said, I don't know how to judge a wah-wah because I've only owned a crybaby and I can only make comparisons with them. But I think it is a very good wah. One drawback though is its size. The thing is huge compared to the crybaby. It would take alot of space in your pedal board.

Iits a wha pedal for god sake, but the pick control makes it a litle harder to use

On a clean sound its good but when you use a distortion unit (I used a DS-1 and a MT-2) it sucks whan you connect the distortion before the wha the wha is too weak if you connect it after the distortion whan you press the pedal the volume goes down

never had a problem with it

for rythem guitar its a good wha pedal but if you try to play hard metal solos get a vox or a crybaby. for the price I paid for it its pritty good

Plug it and play

It sounds a little bit noisy with overdrive. Clean sound works preety well. Sound is like Crybaby but you can change pitch.

BOSS!!

Great pedal for all of you who have trouble with money and can't afford Crybaby but also for others because it can be used as some kind of filter.

IT'S A WAH-WAH PEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF U CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT YOUR RETARDED!!!!!!!

I love this pedal. I thought the cry-baby was too extreme so i started to look at other wahs. You can adjust the amount of wah, and there is the option of having a remote to turn it on and off. It makes just as much noise as a cry-baby though, which surprised me since it's a boss.

IT'S A BOSS!!!!!!!!!

Who has actually had to call boss????

I love this pedal. The ability to adjust the frequency range is what really put this over the edge for me. The ability to have a remote is also a GREAT feature. Just remember...there are other wahs besides crybabys.