Boss PW-10 V-Wah

Getting a godo sound was a breeze as soon as I realized how much better it sounded put in front of my effects. After that, man, it just wailed. I'm still playing with the editing features and looking through the manual, but acutally editing is only easy. I mean, you have to be stupid to find it complicated. I mean c'mon, 3 knobs, 1 on/off switch, 4 banks. Really guys...
I've read a lot of comments on here also that the switches are hard to engage. I had mixed feeligns about buying it after reading it, but went ahead and bought it. All I have to say is...you guys must have the weakest legs. It doesn't take very much to engage these. Just a little extra effort...duh, so it doesn't turn off when you're using it. But far from hard.
The manual is clear and well defined.

I'm currently using a couple of guitars (Washburn HB-35, Epiphone Les Paul Custom (with Gibson pickups) and a Fender Strat) into this wah, into a Boss ME-33 and then to a Peavey Studio Pro 112. I love this rig and have fine tuned it to a some sweet sounds. I wondered what it would be like adding this pedal in and if there were any changes I had to make, but it fit in perfect. It took a little bit of tweeking to get when I wanted but what doesn't right? It was only a few minutes before I had the wah I was looking for (mainly cause I knew what I wnated). Still working on the Joe Satriani sound!
This is a very strong sounding pedal. A great wah, and I love the UNI VIBE sound. Adds a lot of versatility to a rig. Opened a lot of doors for sounds and being creative. You can adjust it to whatever wah sound you want. It's great. I use it for solos with distortion. But is great for any wah sounds. If anyone wants my seeting for my wah or ME-33 let me know, you won't be disapointed.

Boss never ceases to amaze me. Thsi thing looks amazing, but is built like a tank. I have the adaptor so it'll never die out, so I'd use it without a back up, and will actually during my bands next gig. The grips on the pedal are great, and it is 100% durable. But what I could get over was how despite the toughness of it, it was incredibly light. It can't weigh more than 3-4 pounds.
Besides, why would you buy something and have a backup. Why would you buy somethign you don't have faith in?

Have never dealt with Boss - never had a reason to. Not even with my ME-33. Not a glitch.

I play in a rock band, that play a lot of different things from Our Lady Peace, to Creed, to I Mother Earth, to Bon Jovi (just to name a few from our upcoming set list), to many other things. I also play in a jazz/rock band, and a acoustic type band. On my own I like to listen to/play Joe Satriani, Van Halen, (good rock). I'm a guitar nuts I love guitar and I know how a guitar should sound, that why I use the best of everything.
I won't tell you how old I am, cause people tend to judge skill by age, so if you really want to know email me.
It'll never be lost or stolen...who would be stupid enough to let that happen? haha. But for argument's sake, I would replace it for whatever reason, unless it like broke on it's own...
I love just about everything about it. What I don't liek I jsut don't use. pretty simple. I love the wahs, the control you have, I'm sure the distorions are good if used right (I use my ME-33). And I like the Uni Vibe. This definitly helps me make music.
For those potential buyers, anyone wo said or says this is hard to use, they are full of it. It's very easy to use, you know, if you are a decent or better guitar player looking for a good wah pedal with lots of versatility. And if you are very picky like myself.
Feel free to message me with anymore questions! later everyone.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it?
This pedal is really easy to use, if you read the manual through at least once.

How about Editing patches?
Getting to use the different distortions is a bit unproffesional, having to hold a button with one hand while using that hand to help you put in the power source or guitar plug. I dont use the distortions though. Changing the wah sounds are a breeze, as are saving the patches.

How is the manual for it?
The manual is thorough, if you can hold your laughter through the engrish.

My setup is an ibanez Rg120 > Pw-10 > DS-1 > Delay and Reverb> computer or my 30 watt.

The pedal is considerably noisy, only if you use a distortion pedal after the wah. I get no hiss at all if i put my DS-1 before the wah, but then my distortion sounds old school, and weak wah.

The wah is incredibly strong, stronger than anything ive used. I can get considerable wah at the 24th fret at the high E. Every wah sounds good, but my favorite is the "advanced" setting. If i put it with a low sweep range i get a WOAW WAA. to good to be true. The vowel sounds are a bit useless, as is the u-vibe, to much hiss on the vibe.

I can get a funk wah, to a kirk hammet enter sandman wah.

Its a boss, it looks bulletproof, and if a burgler comes ill hurl this baby at him and knock him out or probably kill him.

Yes i would gig without a backup, its never failed me, and its digital so its likely it never will.

Did'nt have a need to call em'.

This wah is almost perfect. No wah wah is perfect though, but this pedal gets the closest bet. This wah is way more versatile than anything ever heard.

If this were stolen or lost, i would get something cheaper. Mainly because im a kid and saved up for this pedal for a while. If i had the money i would definetely get another one though.

I love the wah sound, but i hate the hiss. My favorite feature is again, the advanced setting, it sounds different than the three other wahs.

I compared this to a dunlop 535q and the dunlop gets thumbs down compared to the boss.

I wish this pedal had a more customizable bypass. I wish i could bypass the wah AND the noise gate. If i want to bypass the noise gate i have to hold the heel down for 2 seconds, which i dont wanna ever do.

not the easiest pedal to use by any means, it takes a couple hours to get the hang of, but then it's easy. Also, you have so many different types of wahs, and paremeters within each wah to tweek, it is very flexible.

My rig goes, b-bender american tele, or g&l asat clasic, into vintage ross phaser, boss vwah, maxon cp101 compressor, akai inteliphase, maxon chorus fulltone octave fuzz, mxr noise gate, into a yamaha dg80 combo, with a boomerang in the loop. I play a mixture of jazz blues and fusion, the latter being my favorite. I also play in a cover band doing top 40 type stuff at weddings. That's partly why I chose this wah. I had a dunlop 535 cue, which doesn't compare to this one. I need several wah sounds at my feet during the course of a pop gig, and the vwah helps me do that. I use a budda like setting as my main wah, not so much low end, but pronounced highs, as well as a bad horsey type wah with more low end for the rockier stuff. The humanizer and vibe are cool, but not as usable and I have other pedals that get that job done. I have to say, the vwah's factory presets are cool, but the ability to adjust the cue and frequency anounciation of each wah type, and create custom wahs is why I like this pedal. If you've got the ability to tweek, why not?

I've had it for two months, and nothing. my buddy has had his for a year and it's still working fantastically.

Boss Cs is not the best, I had an old gx700 fx processor I needed help with, and I spent two hours getting switched back and forth till I gave up, no one knew what I needed to know.

I have to urge people to check out this pedal. I have owned a budda and a vox, and they both sound amazing, but it boils down to one thing, for a live situation, you need vercitility so why not have it in the vwah. I think boss did a great job here, and this is one of the few gems in their product line. I have been dragging my feet when it comes to the realm of digital fx and amps, but I finally broke down and bought some of the new toys, and I really am impressed with this pedal.

Speaking as someone who programs a lot and likes it, hey, you actually have to read the manual here - so it's necessarily obvious from the faceplate (though it's laid out on the backplate) Not dead simple, but not bad.

Yes! Finally, the ultimate wah I've been looking for. Advanced, Bass, Cry-Baby and Vox are fantastic, Morley is - like a morley (never been my favorite wah sound), voice is varied, but not radical enough for my tastes - still, if you think of it as another wah / envelope flavor it's good. Uni-V good. I also found several of the distortion / overdrive models quite usable. In particular, the Vintage OverDrive and the Blues Driver emulations have low enough noise and are transparent enough to suit my tastes.

5 year warrenty

Never had to find out

Anyone who ever had a buzz, a click, a crack, a pop or a just plain dead tone pot should thank the engineers at Boss! This beats each and every one of the many, many different wahs I've been through over the years.

I don't really dig the distortions. I prefer mainly the wah part of the pedal. Also, the front and rear toe switches are clunky and they're tough to activate. They're worse than a CryBaby.

Wah sounds great!!! Avoid the distortions... Use an amp or a dedicated distortion pedal. Patch switching is a pain in the butt and they dont't sound all that good for the trouble.

Built like a tank, you can trust it.

None needed

This pedal has potential but I would not recommend you go out and buy one to replace your current wah. I would love to just have the wah modeler instead of the distortion patches. I found a cool website promoting customer suggetions and improvements for the V-Wah hopefully Boss will listen. http://v-wah.50megs.com

The PW-10 looks a little complex when you first approach it... it's not a traditional Boss stomp in that you can't just plug and play, you've got to work out what controls what first. Once you know what everything does, no trouble. Loses out a little in the "ease of use" that it's packed so many FX into one item, but that's the tradeoff between having separate wahs and effecst in one unit.

The adjustments aren't too difficult once you know what everything does... turn the dials, and that's it unless you want to start storing sounds.

The heel switch is helpful for switching between memory presets. People may either love or hate the toe & heel switches... the advantage is that you have to stomp down hard to get it to switch, so you can't you change anything by accident, but that may be a disadvantage for people with a light foot action.

I run a Les Paul, or Strat into a Marshall Valvestate 100, with ernie ball volume, boss PW-10 wah, boss ce-2 chorus & guyatone md3 delay in the effects loop.

Full marks to Boss for the accurate modelling of the Crybaby, Vox & Morley bad horsie wahs, and I like the way in which one can adjust the sweep of them.

I've found the PW-10 to be less noisy than my old crybaby, both whilst active and not. The PW-10 also has the distinct advantage of optical sensors, so there's no dirty pots problem.

I also play a lot of funk bass, and am enjoying the bass wah function - can't compare it to another as I haven't owned one, but certainly it's smooth, clean and responsive.

It's a Boss... so i'd have no hesitation in saying that i'd use it without a backup. However! These things are pretty new, so I guess give it a few more years before I definitely say anything. Certainly it's built like a tank, and looks & feels like it would survive a direct missile strike. Very rugged.

Not anticipating having to call them for the next 20 or so years, if at all...

I play stuff varying from rock to indie, with a fair amount of funk thrown in (play the bass also, just can't help myself!). The Morley wah model is great for rock, crank up the drive and it growls at you most satisfyingly. The other wahs are also perfectly modelled. The jury is out on the distortion and voice functions - amusing but I think ultimately, the unit would probably be better without them - but the Uni-V effect is good fun, although I doubt i'll ever use it in recording... still, nice juddering chorusy sound.

I bought it as I was after a wah sound after losing my old crybaby, and was pretty happy to get three classic wahs in one. I bought partially because of the Boss-Roland pedigree, and I wasn't disappointed. If I lost it, or had it nicked, I would most certainly go out and get another one - it beats a crybaby hands down... not to take anything away from the dunlops, just this thing models it superbly, with optical sensors, and many more adjustable settings.

If you want a flexible wah, go the extra #20 or #30 and get this thing: for less than 100 quid it's worth it. Well done, Boss.

Simply stated, the best wah pedal I've come across in over 30 years of playing (damn has it been that long)..... Great sounds, like having 10 pedals in one, and I've had "virtually" every wah pedal ever made. This one replaces them all, and I used to be fond of my old Morley Power Wah. Read the manual and follow it for 10 minutes, editing/saving patches is easy.

Sound quality is superb, hands down. Low noise, adjustable noise filter for distortion effects. Easy to set wah and drive/wah memory setting to switch between the 2 (read the manual). In manual mode supremely easy to use. I just love this wah, it can do ANYTHING sonically, the pedal travel is fine, and correctly sounds like the "models" it emulates. You may not want to use the gain/distortion as your main sound, but it is very easy to set up a drive/gain stage to kick in with your heel or switch easily back to non-gain wah, or turn it off (front toe switch). I don't have a bad thing to say about this excellent pedal from Boss, not one damn thing..... it just sounds great and is easy to use.

Built like a truck, no hesitation in using it on stage or studio.

Boss is good w/customer support

Best damn wah pedal on the planet, and the Univibe effect is pretty darn close to the original, and even better because the original dampened the guitar signal when oscillating. Wah voicings are superb, noise level suppression is adjustable when selecting one of the overdrive simulations to load into memory (you can only use one at a time), but you can balance the overdrive gain to the non-overdrive wah volume. This pedal ROCKS! Get rid of your unreliable wah pedals and get this one. Don't believe me, get a Boss and compare it back to back with your existing pedal, I bet you'll toss your old ones out or sell them on Ebay. Price new is $149 on the web, I got mine on Ebay for $100 (used but in new condition). That's the end of my search for an old Morley Power Wah to replace the one that crapped out - I gave up on Vox Crybabys a long time ago, and the newer Morleys are crap, save for the Snarling Dog and Danelectro wahs - get the V-Wah and you'll be smiling right now the same as me.

The wah part of it is easy to use. But I think there is too much to be done in order to use the distortion effects. I'm still gonna use my Marshall Jackhammer for that.

Wah sounds good although I have't really compared it to the other wahs like Vox etc that this wah emulates. The voice thingie and the Uni-V sounds good too.
However, the distortion settings are too loud compared too the clean wah sound so I had to use my Jackhammer as a volume box.... Also I think the distortions brought a bit sharp metallic sound with them (i've only tried the MT-2(defaul tsetting) and OD-1 dist)
But it's primarily a as a wah I use it so I give it a niner.

Looks solid enough to me.

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ease of use? it really depends on whether you have the patience to sit down with the manual. if you do, it ain't so bad, but if not, you are likely to put your hair out. each knob and button has several utilities and you need the manual to figure it out. so if you get this pedal used without a manual, best of luck yo you matey!

fantastic! i own two crybabies and liked them very much...until this pedal came along. the wah is very stable and smooth, there are no sudden peaks along the travel of the treadle. each wah type has its own characteristics and all of them sounded great.

my two wahs have crapped out on me so am not putting much hope on this one..but we'll see...

no reason to contact them yet

i have always loved the wah. and now with the new PW10, i can have 4 of them right at my feet, all for th eprice of one. you can't get any better than that. my only gripe is boss was too ambitious with this pedal, adding on the od option. i would have just push out the wah by itself as the wah on its own is awesome. this could have kept the price low and made it more appealing.

I've been using this pedal for about 7 months. It's a little difficult to work with at first, but once you find your favorite settings, It's a snap.
The trick is to pick a couple tones that are veratile and stick with them. There's 3 memories, plus a 'custom' position on the knob. If you only need a couple settings, you can pare back the heel pedal to act as a manual/memory two position switch instead of four. I ignore the distortions, although fine for pedals, I've got more than enough tube distortion elsewhere.
If you're frustrated with this pedal, you can simplify it down as far as you like, and ignore whatever you want. I use the manual settings for wahs, and use the heel switch (set to two-position) to go to a clean univibe. I've used it live & if you're comfortable with your settings, I don't think it would let you down. Don't even think of reprogramming live. Just get all your ducks in line ahead of time & they'll quack just fine. The manual is well written & complete. You really should read it completely and keep it handy when reprogramming. This pedal really does need a knob for distortion types. The distortions are OK, and there's a good variety, but if you've got tubes and/or a standalone dirtbox, it's much more convenient to ignore them.
To summarize, steep learning curve, but makes sense in the end if you can grok it.

I play this pedal through a Traynor YCV80 tube amp with an Ibanez EX240. It's the only pedal I need now, with the crunch on the amp being more than enough distortion for what I need.
For wah quality, this thing sings. I've been playing for about 13 years, & I've played on a few different wahs, and I couldn't tell much of a difference on the default settings.
However, screw the default settings.
The killer feature on this pedal is the ability to move the sweet spot on any of the wah types. Like the Crybaby, but want more bite on the low end? Just turn the wah range down a bit. The Morley setting growls even more with the range at about 10 o'clock, when soloing on the low E area. Set at about 2 o'clock, the range is over-the-top for solos on the high strings. You could probably use the heel switch to go between the high & low settings to switch 'em on the fly. That would really freak people out.
The Univibe effect is pleasantly surprising. It seems out of place on this pedal, but is a sweet sounding bonus. I would have traded the somewhat lame voice effect for a volume pedal setting, though.
This pedal takes all the classic wahs, puts them in one pedal, and makes them more customizable than you could ever pull off with analog hardware.

It says 'Boss' on it.

Never dealt with 'em, but I'll bet they're as bored as the Maytag guy.

Good: The wah tone. That's what I bought it for. The tone is sick, and you can make it even sicker with a twist of the knob. Versatility! No pots = No crackling. You remember how your Crybaby would lose its cheese after a couple of years? No more. You'll never need another wah. The Univibe is sweet too.

Bad: Distortion settings are a bigger pain in the arse than they're worth. One more knob would have made a huge difference. I thought the voice settings were kind of useless.

Don't bother with the distortion or the voice settings. Well, unless you want. It's your pedal. I'd trade 'em for a volume pedal setting in a second. Just use it for the sweet, sweet wah fruits it offers. See them? They call you. Take them.