Boss PW-10 V-Wah

No problem to use in the manual mode. Definately read the manual for programming. Basically, there are three memory patches, and manual mode, so you can have 4 sounds at your feet. No problem getting good tone out of this unit. Can't really compare ease of use with other wahs, because this pedal is unique (unique right now, I'll bet Line 6 will not be far behind)

I have played for over 20 years and always been a fan of the wah sound to add color to your tone. I used a Cry-baby for years, and this pedal's Cry-baby model sounds much better- it is like comparing an old 8-track to a CD player- crystal clear and no hiss. I retired the Cry-baby a few years back for a Morley volume/wah, just for the volume aspect. To me, the Cry-baby model sounds good with neck pickup/mild OD. The Vox model sounds great clean or mild OD, and the Morley model excels with a double-humbucker hi-gain lead sound. Also the effects are nice- I like the Uni-vibe, it's a little different than my Microvibe pedal (I love that pedal), but very useable. Also try the synth sound with a spacey clean sound doing volume-swells: very modern. The overdrives they added to enhance the wah effect, which it does. The OD's sound like Boss pedals (imagine that), no problem, but I prefer not to use them and to rely on my amp tone. In general, a very nice wah, clean and versatile.

Used Boss pedals for years with no problem. This thing feels well constructed- we shall see in time.

Never dealt with them.

I would replace this if stolen. It does quite a bit and sounds better than my original Cry-baby. Very nice job here from the boys (and girls?) at Roland.

The V-Wah is a very easy pedal to use.
By a tweak of a knob you can easily get the sound you want(Includes simulations of-crybaby wah,morley wah,vox wah,and a dunlop Univibe)

I mostly play on an Epihone Les Paul copy,sometimes with a Lotus Strat
into a Digitech RP200 looped to a boss delay,and the boss delay goes to the V-Wah.
I use a fender Vibro Champ,a gorrila GG-10 and some kind of Optimus amp.All of the amp settings are:
Bass-7
Treble-5
Mid-5
Gain-6
distortion-1/2

The effects have a very clear sound,and you can play alot of Hendrix
tunes with the wah,it's also good for a Buddy Guy-type wah,and the Morley sound's like Steve Vai.

You Can rely on it for gigs.When you play on gigs,it's hard to see the knobs,and it's hard to turn,but as far as giging it yes its good,
and I would use a backup incase someone steps on it,thats why.

Most Companies are rude.I havn't had any problems with the pedal.Yet

I play mostly blues,rock&Jazz.It fits all of them(Depending on gain&distortion*)
I've been playing for almost 5 years,and i own A Boss Delay,a digitech
RP200,and I own A Fender Vibro Champ,a Gorrila GG-10,and some Optimus.
If it was lost I'd definaly go and buy a new one(And beat the mess out of the theif)I love everything about it,the diffrent modes,the gain&Distortion,I hate the Overdrive because it fuzzes up a little to much,my favourite feature is the Vox simulation,i did compare it with
my Digitech RP200's wah,and I like the V-Wah better because the Digitech sounded so Crappy,and the pedal has so much features there is
not any other possible thing I could want in a Wah,it really fits blues,jazz,and rock(I play it)and I think that the intensity is great,
I mean,you don't find many pedals with a distortional Wah,so the pedal
is the best wah you can own.

First of all I am very familiar with programmable pedals and have owned countless multi-effects and amp modelers. I also have a digital studio. I've only recently gone back to stomp boxes for live work, because i like the flexiblity and spontanaity. With that said, I find this pedal moderatly difficult to use. And my big size 13 boot covers the indicator lights.

I really like the sound of this thing on the vox setting - with or without a little overdrive. The rotovibe is very musical also.

So far so good.

Don't know.

I play in a funk reggae band and use lots of wah. I'm not sure if I'd buy this again. Might look to trade for a budda or teese or dimebag.

this pedal is usable right out of the box... just turn the 3 knobs, and you have your choice of effect, the range of it, and how much drive you want to add to the effect.

the sound quality is awesome! i previously had a crybaby wah, and although that was a very good pedal, i didnt seem to get much volume through it. with the v-wah i dont just have the crybaby i had before, i can now alter the wah range, and add drive to it just by using the manual mode. to get the best out of this pedal you need to read the manual from front to back. i have already read the manual all the way through, and know it inside out (i have only had it 1/2 a day). i give it a 9 because it is pretty self explanitory, as a wah pedal, but to get the advanced features you need to read the manual

very reliable! its a boss so doesnt that say it all? built like a brick and no scratchy pots etc. i bought the adapter for it as i heard that it eats up the batteries.

never dealt with them, but its boss and it has a 5 year warranty so they get a 10 anyway.

this pedal IS the last wah pedal you would want to buy, because apart from it being just a wah, it is programmable and has some cool effects built in. my favourite effect apart from the wah is the univibe. when i took it out of the box i thought it was a bit long compared to my old crybaby wah, but even though it is longer than a standard wah, how do they cram so much into just 1 pedal! if anyone can do it boss can!

Although this is not exactly a click and play pedal, you get a pretty good sound right off the bat. Finding other sounds can be tough so i knocked it a point, but when you find them the memories are great and although some people have knocked the heel/recall feature, it really is a great addition to this pedal because no one wants to spend 15 minutes dialing in your settings right off the top of your head if your gigging. Also i knocked it a point for the pressure needed to activate the toe switch, its a bitch after using a dunlop forever

This is where the product really excels. After fiddling a little bit, you WILL find a huge variety of great sounds. I run a fender standard strat with lace sensors to the PW-10 through a couple BOSS stompboxes to a Digitech RP-1 to a Fender Stage 185. The Models are great, i have a few crybabys and have played vox and morley and this thing sounds just like a brand new dunlop, vox, or bad horsie and the Univibe is just great. Double-Res and that Voice feature are kinda wierd, definitely not part of my regular gig but sound great just the same. The onboard distortion can be tough to dial in but sounds very good and all of them are fairly good models of the originals. Personally i like the Guv'nor and the Turbo Overdrive but hey whatever floats your boat. Also the Advanced wah is very cool but again, not part of my regular thing.

Oh come on, its a Boss! Theres no pot so it wont get scratchy like a regular wah, will probably never need parts replaced, and never needs to be cleaned inside. All of you Dunlop fans know how fun cleaning an old wah pedal can be. I dont know if i would gig with it because its kinda tough to dial up stuff and would be a total bitch to do so while playing live. Oh and get an Adaptor, this thing will eat your batteries like no other.

N/A

I play grunge and do the occasional metal thing but i do everything back to hendrix, SRV, and neil young stuff, and this piece can hit some of that right on the head. Vox + Fuzz gives you a great hendrix tone and the Morley + Guv'nor or MT-2 gives you a fantastic metal lead. For blues, i dunno i never use wah in blues but the blues driver distortion is pretty smooth for a good blues overdrive sound. If this were lost or stolen i would definitely get another if i had the money but its an expensive piece for a wah pedal. The biggest thing i love about it is the quality of the wah and knowing that it isnt gonna just fizz out on me any time soon, if any time at all. The only thing i hate about it is the way you have to unplug the damn thing to choose the other settings, too many effects behind too few controls. Overall a fantastic pedal gives you 99 1/2 great sounds for only 150 bucks, and beats the hell out of any other wah on the market.

Bit of a curates egg this one! Sometimes the sounds are very good and sometimes I feel that there is something lacking. I have Morley and Cry Baby wahs and feel that in comparison the Boss lacks a little high end and also puts out a slightly hotter signal, certainly the Morley lacks high end and the Cry Baby seems slightly pumped up.
I have tried using it live but find the memory setting cumbersome and am annoyed that you cannot program the Type setting and the distortion to both come on at the same time (or am I missing something in the poorly translated manual that often repeats itself).
The voice and UniV settings are useful, though on the voice I would have prefered some options with just 2 vowel sounds rather than three as to my tastes there are only three or so of the options that are usable... one of which does a very usable Heil Talk Box impression if you stick to the toe down half of the pedal range.
I also don't like the fact that the distortion setting is global rather than assignable to the individual memory slots.
The fact that the knobs change function in the memory setting process is confusing as the drive knob becomes a volume control and the range knob cancels the memory operation altogether.
In the drive selection process the range becomes noise supressor level and the drive .... I'm still not quite sure despite what it says in the manual.
Basically you have to get the sound you want with the pedal (not by tweaking an existing memory slot) then store it to the memory location you want remembering to set the volume in the process.
If you just want to use it as a customisable Wah ease of use is 10
Otherwise

Guitars = Loads
Amps = Marshall Anniversary head $x12 and 2x12 cabs, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Session SS 1x12 combo 75w, Pandora and computer recording.
Its not noisy I'll give it that.
If you play with it you can get some good distorted wah sounds, Hendrix Voodoo Chile or Satch anyone?
The clean wah settings I find I am a bit unsure about but than I have probably been spoiled by experience of the originals. I find I spend most time with the advanced setting, range at 2 o'clock, or the Morley range 10 o'clock, or the Vox 10 o'clock with Big Muff distortion.

Seems rugged enough but I am not sure about battery life yet.
It must be pretty current hungry to need 6 AA cells rather than use PP3s

Never had a need to use their services but then I am not particularly hard on gear.

I play in a covers band playing some rock, blues, AOR, some pop tunes even a bit of funk! (No country and western though!)
I have been playing guitar for 30 yrs. and own a wide collection of guitars effects amps etc....I never sell anything. To be honest if it went missing the first thing I would do is look for something else.
I would be much better if it had another knob for distortion type and a switch so that you could have the distortion come on and off with the wah or just on the heel switch.

As has been stated, this is not for people who don't want to read the manual. This is probably the first Boss/Roland manual that was ever any good, and you NEED IT if you have no experience with the pedal. The unplugging of the adapter (which you need----6 AA batteries instead of a 9-volt! Dirty bastards! What are they? In bed with the battery companies?) to edit is kinda lame. I was surprised at the amout of flexibility of the pedal. Although I do blieve they were hasty in designing the editing functions. I played with it in the store for about an hour, going through almost every possible function before I decided to get it. As with most Boss/Roland products, you have to take time to learn it, but when you do you'll find out that it'll most likely do what you want it to. The forward "clean" switch is a little difficult. You have to practice stepping on it to find the right amount of pressure. Its different from the dunlops, morleys, etc. There is also a bit of "lag time" when changing patches and the sweep of the pedal seems a little smaller than most other wah pedals. They really forced a lot of features is a small space. Not enough to be a multi-effects unit, but way too many to be just a wah pedal. Its still cool, though.

THIS is where this product shines! I LOVE the modeling sounds. Adding the humanizer and the Uni-V were icings on the wah cake! If you like the humanizer effect, this is the best one to get. Its better than the one in my GT-3 AND better than the one on my AW-3 even though there's less control over the sounds. You get your money's worth on this effect alone. As usual, one of the little Boss/Roland secrets added to the product. The distortions are cool, but its purely a matter of tone taste as to whether you'll like it or not. I like the Metal Zone setting best for distortion. Its just my preference, though. You have some pretty good choices, though. As for the wahs...I finally felt like Boss got it right! I own a GT-3 as well and this pedal made me go back to the drawing board on programming a wah patch for my GT-3. Overall, I like the sounds, but once again if you don't spend time trying to fing your perfect setting, this pedal will dissappoint you. If you're looking for a plug-n-play pedal, this ain't it! The sounds are there, though. You have to take the time to find them. Trust me, they're there! The custom section was a nice lil' bonus, too! It even has a section for bassists! They were thorough. It sounds great. I have no sound complaints. Super clean!
I'm using a Fender Strat with a GT-3 effects processor and I'm running through an Ampeg SS-140C amp with 2x 12" celestions in it. I have a bunch of stompboxess and effects units, but I'm trying to minimize my set-up these days. Also, my strat has 2 Seymore Duncan Hotrail pickups (neck and bridge positions with a toggle on the bridge pickup for single/humbucker).
Honestly, this is the first wah pedal from Boss that I actually LIKE---a lot. I had the Dynamic Filter/EV-10 set up and their T-Wah & Autowah pedals (which were very cool), but THIS is the ONE! I don't feel like I'm missing something with these sounds. This is a really good studio pedal, too.

I tend to baby my equipment, so I may be a bit biased. Its Boss-solid! I'm a little bit concerned because I know that this is a modeling pedal, so there are more electronics to mess up in it, but I've had it for less than a month, so I can't say. I WILL say this,though. The first one I played on in the store had to go back bcause it was messed up. Test it before you buy it! For ME, its reliable. Haven't done a tour with it yet, though. Just various gigs. I'm still scared that it may turn on me, so I'm only gonna give it an 8 in this category. It IS COSM technology and not a REAL wah. If i have to be suspicious of it, it doesn't deserve a 9 or 10. Still, I have yet to encounter problems with it. They get ya with the 6 AA batteries thing. Its best to use the adapter (or another adapter of equal or LESSER pricing). Its worth the purchase just for the ease of programming, since you have to unplug the power and plug it in while holding the manual button to make most of the changes.

N/A---------so far----on THIS product. Anyone who has to deal with Boss/Roland for customer support has my blessing....you'll need it if you can ever get in touch with them! They build good stuff so you don't have to call CS much.

I play various styles from funk to metal. Getting funky on this pedal is as easy as sin. Aside from the power source issue (too many batteries), I really like this pedal. Soundwise, its the answer that I was looking for. Its solid and if I had to have just one pedal, this would be it. There are times when i don't like hauling my GT-3 around. For ME, this is the perfect pedal to have. If you're thinking of getting one of these (if you're reading this, you probably are, right?) make SURE there is a manual!!! The manual is ESSENTIAL to this bad boy! My favorite feature is the humanizer. Even though I use the wah MUCH more, I think they did a great job on the humanizer effect. I don't use the Uni-V at all, but its pretty good. Little things to know: You can use this pedal in two modes: one where you have 3 memory locations and the default and one where you can switch back and forth to just one (best for live applications). I like that. 2. The distortion choices and SOME instructions are on the bottom of the wah. This is one of the smartst pedals Boss has made in a long time if you ask me. Its got enough features to merit what I paid for it brand new. The biggest problem I have is getting used to the short sweep range of the pedal. (not soundwise - that's adjustable---the physical pedal) Its a lot shorter than the one on my GT-3. Stepping on the back switch takes a bit of getting used to at first. Overall, this is a sweet piece for me. I love wah and this pedal's full of 'em. I'm not saying its the end-all-be-all. Every pedal has its shortcomings; this one just has a lot less of 'em than others. If you just think of it as a wah pedal, you're getting way more than your money's worth. I may think otherwiseafter a few months of use, but for now its pretty damn good for what i use it for. If you're droppin' dat FONK, this pedal is the one to get.

First off this pedal is easy to use but not to program (Not User Friendly). If you are planing on using it live, think again. I like the sounds of the wah, overdrives and really like the rotovibe tones. But just wish I could use it live. The stupid kick back function is the worst, it would of been better if they put side kick on button. The manual is very helpful and will get you started quick.

I use a Mesa Boogie 50 watt rectoverb combo with a 89 PRS custom and 4 more PRS's and USA Fender Richie Sambora strat. The pedal is very clean when run in line and sounds are very good. The pedal will do just about everything you want and can get that VOX or Thomas Wah sound.

Well the first night I put it on stage to try it, it broke and the store I got it from sent it back to BOSS and BOSS could not tell is was not working right and sent it back to me broke. I then had them send it back again and this time they fixed it. The pedal is not good for live use and I would not recommend using night after night.

Terrible!!! When a rotovibe sounds like a phaser and you can't tell, it's time to find a new job. I would never buy another one of these in fear that it might break again. I got it fixed but I should of not had to wait 3 1/2 months to get back. THE WORST!!

I am pro musician who has recorded 2 albums and toured the world for 20 years. I play mostly rock with a harder edge but love to play clean funky stuff. If this pedal was stolen I would not buy another and would not miss at it. It sounds good but, what good is it if you can't use live. :(

It is true that it's kinda tricky to get the best sounds. I still have to consult the manual sometimes (after 3 months!). The manual, however, is great. Received it in English and German.

My setup: Fender American Standard Strat => Bespeco Volume => Boss PW-10 => Boss SD-1 => Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (with Tom Scholz Power Soak; additionally Line 6 DL-4 in the effect loop); It is not noisy whatsoever, especially with the option of a true-bypass, which is the reason why I bought this Wah-Pedal. The modelings of the Vox-Wah and the Crybaby are brilliant. Most of the time I only use one of these and choose it manually on stage, so I don't have to mess around with any difficult programming measures. The distortion/overdrive sounds are very good (picked from the new GT-6), but I don't use them because the access is too difficult. And there's a great Uni-Vibe-Effect included as well as a kind of synthesizer-sound which I sometimes use to annoy the keyboarder of our band :-) You can get the sounds of the greatest Wahs of all time connected with a better technology (infrared) and feel (relatively short pedal way). However, 1 point off for the pressure you need to activate it (bad for the weaklings amongst us).

It is very sturdy, I would use it without any backup and in fact do it. Most of the time you read in this category: "Well, it's a boss!"

Never dealt with them. If I had to, I'm not sure whether there's a similarly good support in Europe compared to the US.

I play Blues-Rock, Funk and experimental music (electronic sounds). This pedal works great in every situation. Before, I used the Wah included in the Line6 Floorboard, which was also good but not that versatile. I have been playing for more than 7 years now and this is the best Wah-Pedal I've ever played. Would buy it again, although it is very expensive. I wished the sounds were easier to edit.

Easy to get a sound.
Trouble editing.
Manual suffers from translation problems.
No upgrade, what upgrade??

Yam SG200, Musicman 65 head.
Can't control sounds.

Seems ok.
No back up, but as I can't gig it so what!!

Not gone wrong yet as I can't use it.

I have tried & tried, read the manual backwards but I musy be doing something wrong.I cannot control the volume of the patches you get from the heel switch. If anyone can help, please e mail me, please, please!!!!!!!