DeArmond Weeper Wah

EZ to use...its a wah

i found my sound with this wah. i use a 1973 marshall into an ibanez stereo chorus split into a fuchs 50 overdrive. the chorus into the weeper, into my strat or les paul. I found if you drench the reverb in the fuchs, and no reverb on the marshall i get a warm kossoff tone. with the weeper at the treble position it is the best treble booster i have ever heard. great wah tones when the volume is rolled back for clean, and nice ballsy wah when cranked. i look for my own sound, and try to copy other players, and this set up is a killer for me. This weeper is all original. dont know the year.

this thing is built like a tank, and as big as one too.

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i play blues rock, and heavy rock. love paul kossoff.

If you can plug in two guitar cables and move your foot, you are ready to rock the DeArmond Weeper Wah. The Weeper comes third in my rack after my tuner and my old 70's Yamaha Compressor (can't think of the model number, sorry). No adjustments have been made to my pedal since I purchased it used.

My main live setup is a Harmony H-78 and one or two Harmony H415 amps, depending on the venue size. I've noticed no unwanted noise or tone sucking that somebody mentioned in a previous review. One of the reasons I like the Weeper so much is that when you pull the pedal all the way back to the more throaty position, your signal is still nice and strong. I've noticed with some other wahs that when you pull back all the way you just get an unusable sound - like you've just thrown your amp underwater. The full extent of the pedal sweep is completely usable with the DeArmond. It's very vocal and quacky. When playing distorted the midrange tonal areas of the sweep are very full and throaty - almost vomity! Sounds gross trying to verbalize it here...but I love that sound! When playing clean you get the sound of Isaac Hayes in Shaft. In fact, I've been told that a DeArmond Weeper is what was used on that recording. I also have a Maestro Boomerang and a Maestro Boomer2. Both are nice and quacky on the down/wah sweep...but when pulled back for that throaty/midrangy sound, they both suffer from tone suck...that amp underwater sound that I mentioned before. Out of all the Wahs that I've played The Weeper is by far my favorite. Oh yeah - it's on the larger side compared to other wahs and has a larger sweep - making it much easier to play in my opinion.

So far so good. I've had it for about a year now. It lives in my rack and travels to studio and gigs. The thing is built like a tank!

huh?

I play a modern pop, singer/songwriter stuff - one reviewer called me the male version of Aimee Mann. I have lots of Beatles, Cheap Trick and other classic rock tendencies. The wah is not a huge part of my sound. But when I do use a wah I want it to be dramatic and powerful. I want it to scream, cry, belch, and vomit. The Weeper is perfect for me. I've been playing guitar for about 25 years. Most of my guitars are hollowbody Harmonys and Silvertones. I have about 20 amps, large and small - Harmony, Silvertone, Univox, Supro, Magnatone - but my main gigging amps are either Harmony H415's or a 1968 Vox AC30 Top Boost. If my Weeper were lost or stolen I would immediately try to find a replacement - it's become part of my sound. I love the ease of playability and the range of tone that I can get from the Weeper. The only complaint that I might possibly have about the Weeper - and it's really not that much of a complaint - is the size. It is a pretty bulky pedal...heavier than most other wahs I've held. But it fits in my board and it kicks loads of *** so I won't complain to loudly about it's size

Couldn't be easier. I'm not sure why people are saying it has a different action than other wahs, its just exactly the same, but with a bit more travel. E-Z.

Oh yes, the sound quality. A subjective measure, of course, but this is by far the best souding wah I've ever played. I've used a Morley power wah, Hiwatt, Boss V-Wah, Cry Baby. This thing kills all of them. I don't notice any tone sucking, I love the action of it and the way it sounds. This is the wah I was looking for all along!

Its old and still works perfectly so I guess its reliable.

no idea...

I love it!

Butt stupid easy to use. Doesn't have a wall wart hookup, batts only. Plug in and play!

Very useable Wah pedal. A bit different action than most, but not hard to get used to.
Am Std Strat, Ibanez Tube driver OLD ProCo Rat, Boss Digital delay, Electro Harmonix Small Stone, Boss Noise Gate, hot rodded Silverface Bassman 10
I get the Hendrix every time.

I keep a Dunlop around too, but I prefer this one.

I do my own repairs. I think this is way too old anyway.

I've been a wannabee Hendrix hack since age 14.
I rescued this from the trash. There was a .47 pfd capacitor busted off the circuit board. $.85 at Radio Shack. Wah pedals aren't hard to fix.
I'm really happy I found this one.

Plugging it in is easy. The rock-a-bye bit with the foot is an acquired skill and art.
I discovered as so many have pointed out that you put it after the gain type pedals. In the effects loop it is sweet.
It gives a nice wide wah range of sounds.

95 Mext strat special
Stock Humbucker; 2 Rio Grande Vintage Tallboys
SS Fender Deluxe 85; HOmebrew "tweed" style tube amp (10-15 watts)
This wah sounds best when used thru a clean channel. It is so vocal and rangey that you don't want to conceal it under a lot of distortion -- altho I will push it to see what it will give up. Generally, it is better clean. Thru a bright, clean sound, I can get this baby to "talk." I put a flanger (Ibanez SF-10 Swell flanger) behind it, and with that on, I can get some real astral tones.

I can cop a very primitive 'Voodoo Chile' intro (no one can do Jimi perf), or White Trash's "Give it Everything You Got" or just plain funky wah shit.
This thing is sweet and fat and I dig it.

It is built like a tank. A heavy duty Real Tube driver pedal fell off the amp and put two dings in the foot pad (crap!), but it didn't faze the operation of the pedal. This one has a Dunlop pot replacement, but I think it must have some proprietary inductor that gives it that sweet sorta-farty tone.

never dealt with Dermond. The pedal must be 10-20 years old.

I play rock/blues/funk/homebrew
25 years of playing
if it were stolen I'd be bummed.
What do I like about it? When I play it, I feel GOOD
It has created new levels of sound so it is a huge plus
It is not just a one trick pony. I use this to color the edge of my notes -- not just whaka-wah riddims. This is an obscure wah that deserves some of the Crybaby thunder/

Well, it did what any wah SHOULD do.

I found that this pedal did not suffer from volume drops on the "downsweep" such as the DOD wah. It was even thru the full range and was never harsh like, say, some Morely's I've played.

I seldom had to change the battery in this pedal. I moved the gearshaft once or twice to tweak the sweep range, and it held up VERY well. Never had a problem with it.

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Was playing classic rock and originals at that time (late '86) such as Kiss & Aerosmith. The Weeper didn't sound like a Crybaby or a Morely - had its own "sweet & fat" sort of sound. Wish I hadn't let it go, as I've only seen one since then and tagged at $85 USED!!! If I saw another for a reasonable price, I'd prolly unload my Crybaby Q535 for it.