Geoffrey Teese RMC Picture Wah

Its a wah. No easier or more difficult then other wahs. It would be cool if somebody actually made a good step on wah like the morleys which are the easiest to use but sound like...ugh

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I have a really big line up of guitars, but we'll just use a vintage strat for this review, since I feel they sound best with wahs. I have two vintage strats that sound completely different. That goes into a timmy od which goes into an eh memory man deluxe and a super reverb re-issue. Not to many effects but I play the blues.
I also own the fulltone clyde, dunlop crybaby, vox v848 clyde, and a real clyde that I dont feel comfortable gigging with.

This sounds a lot like my dunlop crybaby. No offense to teese but its overpriced man. Inside it looks a lot like my crybaby to so i feel like im paying a couple hundred for some chinese crap thats the same thing.

Not saying its all that bad, it gets some sweet sounds..but so does my crybaby. I would say its a little better, but for the price its not close to worth it.

Still havent found THAT SOUND yet, but Im waitin. I thought itd be good from all the positive stuff i read on reviews, but i guess anybody can say anything.

COMPLETE disappointment, 5 for not sounding bad, but not sounding that good either.

Looks like a tank. I might use it as a backup for my fulltone.

Don't know

I play blues and rock with an active cover band. Ive been playing for 32 years if I remember right and own to much gear to name.
If it was stolen I wouldnt really care about the pedal as much as the guy that stole it from me. Id kill the guy and put the pedal back in the closet.
I dont love it and only hate it because i was so excited about it and was let down. This guy most have people on the internet working for him or something because theres no way its that good for 200 bucks.
I still want a good wah. At least its not as bad as the budda wah i spent almost the same on and it sounded like week crap!

Step on Step off, has the little trimmer pot inside the blue box inside of the pedal, not hard to spot. Takes only a very slight turn to
reduce/add buffer for for balance of signal / noise ratio adjustment.

OK, this review will be brief. Strat through stacked low gain OD's and Ultra Fuzz high gain (adjusted low gain here for all attempts to win me over) and through Boss CE-2 and delays. Amps are small solid state amps, Bi amped and set up in 4 corners.
No matter what, I could not keep this pedal from screeching small white noise out of the amps, any amp. Trimmed that pot downward until the output was nearly OFF, by then the effect was gone. Heel up all the way and it just went WOOOOOO...loudly, until.........All the low gain setting OD's were off.
A/B'ed this wah with my Morgan Miller modded TB Crybaby and night and day operation.

My decision is that this Pedal I believe really wants nothing but the High End AMPS nat. distortion and few clocked pedals in front and that's the name of this game. Good sweep good sound , but only Straight to Amp.

I played one at Fat Sounds through to a Dr Z 18 and it cooked.
So there you go.

Not going to skew numbers here so NO OPINION

Good solid make and not the Mass produced China Crap that was mentioned earlier.

Geoffrey's the best. Talked to him when I had the RMC 3 and he is quick and accurate to answer.

Always wanted one, pulled the trigger on this when I found one on ebay for cheap. Been playing and testing gear for a LONNNNNNG Time. Have 2 Strats and PRS single cut with buckers that I did NOT try. This is a good quality pedal, it's just not what I need in the way of a wah with my rig. I am sure that the High END Tube folks ( and I was a DIE HaRD one until I had to go small with my travels) will appreciate it, or they won't if they encounter the same problems.

It's very easy to use. It's been 10 years since I bought my last wah pedal, and I didn't know how switches have evolved since then. I really dig the switch for this wah. Turning on my old Crybaby was a pain in the butt, but this new generation of switch makes the wah more live friendly.

I mostly run a Strat into a Fender tube amp with a tube screamer. It's a very vocal wah. It makes your guitar pronounce "WAH." It's a trip. The travel is spread out nice, and is smooth. I guess John Mayer uses one, too. It seems smoother when played cleanly, but if you add over drive after the signal, it gets nice and rude. you can't go wrong with this wah.

I trust Geoffrey.
I first ran my Wah with the One Spot 9v adaptor. After using it for about 30 minutes, I noticed the "NO ONE SPOT 9V ADAPTOR" sticker on the bottom. I guess you should power it with a regulated 9v adaptor with no more than 200ma output. Oops. I emailed Geoffrey, and he kindly wrote me back with an adaptor recommendation. He backs his work.

He backs his work.

It's the best wah money can buy these days. I tried the Crybaby, Vox, and the Fulltone Clyde. I felt this pedal can give me the idea wah sound I have in my head every time I step on it. What more do I need?

New wah with hum with Crack

the editor mistook resistors and the duck stopped acting, it was necessary to correct soldering, suspected strengthened inductor with Chinese JFET LM 351 N integrated circuit, the new potentiometer is creakin.

How I will sell it I am buying fulltone wah

very simple, on and off.

i swear that people spend more time describing their rig and bragging about it than they do describing the tone! simply put: humbucking guitar>6505>4x12

this wah is a hot rodded clyde mccoy. alot of people swear that all of the vintage wahs came stock like this...but they all didnt. i admit, ive played some pretty NICE sounding vintage wahs, but played more lame than good. ive also been building wahs for the past few years, so i know what goes into a wah pedal to make it sound good.

the material used for the capacitors makes a difference, more so than the resistors. at such a low voltage, id think that carbon composition resistors would only be noisy. but this wah is no different from anything with metal film resistors. interesting that teese chose to used that specific value for the electrolytic capacitor, as thats typically the value i felt sounded best, as well. :-D

the pot is finely tuned to his ear, the way a GREAT pot should sound. Icar, capitalized!

and the inductor, a fine piece of chocolate goodness that has, for me, completed a long conquest for the ultimate vintage wah tone. not to mention, ABSOLUTE CONSISTENCY. i bought this wah a week ago brand new, because i had one in the past and cant figure out what happened to it...i had a RMC3 that i let a guy (RICH KIMURA) borrow, and he never gave it back...smooth...

anyways, this picture wah is more than just the same 'ol "got my blues strat, blues amp, and gotta get my hendrix/srv blues wah!" im not incredibly fond of blues purists, simply after working for carvin for 6 months only to deal with these absolute blues tone snobs on a daily basis...

ive heard/owned 90% of wahs on the market. this is my favorite for the classic wah tone, hands down. the bottom end of the sweep is just as good as it should be, not over the the top. no smooth highs, here! if you want smooth highs, a wah pedal may not be the one for you. the inductor sounds as if its rich in harmonics (tuned well to 503mH, 30ohms), a way of making it cut through all of the rich distortion that the 6505 has to dish out. at the bottom of the neck, i managed to get it to make my chords scream with madness into a wall of distortion, while being able to rock it in the middle for solos to help cut through the cold cheese that are Paiste rude cymbals.

teese, you sir are doing something beyond great. not to mention, i LOVE the blue!!!

if there is ever a problem, i will email teese to let him know. if its something like a broken solder, i wouldnt waste a bit of energy to email em. on the other hand, if the pot goes to crap, i will contact Teese.

he is a sugary donut with a mint leaf on top!

been playing forever, blah blah blah. if youre looking for a classic wah tone (that doesnt mean an old wah tone you cant use for metal), then this is it. it cuts through incredibly well, its extremely vocal, its backed by a great warranty, a great guy, and if you expect anything less than incredible, you have poor taste. (mark my words). you can pay twice as much for for the next soon-to-be-gone boutique wah dude out of the bedroom and be disappointed, or you can do the right thing and support someone with the best talent, knowledge, and appreciation for the wah wah.

now to buy another wizard wah...

It's a wah. You just step on it. Switch doesn't click off too easily at the toe end of sweep while you are soloing away.

I have about ten+ wahs including 70s Morleys, some Dunlop pedals (those with knobs and whatnot), and an old Maestro Boomerang pedal. My second favorite pedal is a simple Thomas Organ Crybaby pedal with a Dunlop Hotpot installed. It is a wicked pedal, but this Teese Picture Wah, my new favorite wah, just has that honk to it. It sounds about exactly like the wah sounds from the late 60s. It has a strong tone. Some wahs might be more radical, but this one sounds georgous to my ears. I like it better for the tone, which seems to be dead on the best of the old Clyde McCoy pedals. Also, my guess is that some of the talk I have heard on the net about the pre-environmental reg pedals, particularly the 2005 series sounding so much better, is probably hype. You know how we guitar geeks can be about our gear. It does not lack for Kahunahs. Also, the fuzz friendly additon to the curcuit is a big plus. I play through a Fulltone silicon fuzz pedal, so the buffer keeps the wah effect open sounding and not screaming. The Foxrox upgrade for the old pedals would cost you a few.

Only owned it a couple weeks, seems to be built like a tank. The housing is the traditional Vox/Thomas Organ style that seems to be made out of cast alluminum. The board mounted jacks might or might not give me issues in the future, but they look pretty snug. We'll say 8 with the jacks, but it's likely not a problem.

Never dealt with Mr. Teese, but I hear he's an incredibly responsive guy.

I must say, the metallic blue paint job reminds me of my old souped up '79 Cutlass. I just wish it came in metallic purple haze, man. I play mostly harder blues oriented rock for lack of a better description. I've messed around with punk and alt rock but my heart lies in the Zep/Hendrix et al school mostly. My gear consists of Gibsons, an Oasis Artist (70s boutique guitar), a Hagstrom I, a bunch of pedals that I switch out, including Fulltone 70s, Soulbener, Ibanez 808 series phaser, chorus, and flanger, as well as a TS-808, and a bunch of other stuff. Just bought a good 'ol Big Muff, which will be modded along with the TS-808. I have Marshall cabs, a Marshall Power amp, a Trace Elliot TVT-9 guitar preamp and other gear. Anyway, it sounds great. So far I have only played it through my Ampeg VT-22 combo amp since I moved into a Marshall hostile apartment. I'd rather just plug into the combo than deal with all that rig as well. If you want a Clyde McCoy pedal and if you want to get yer Hendrix on, this is the pedal for you. You get what you pay for and this is no exception. I'd definitely get another one if it were lost or stolen. I'd say 10 if not for the jacks. Sound-a definite ten, or 11 as Nigel Tufnel would say.

Nothing to comment. No buttons, knobs or internal trimpots.

This wah is a very vintage sounding wah with alot of quack. If you rock this wah from heel to toe in rhythm it might even quack too much. When you play with this wah wah you have to learn to rock it back and forth as much as you want the frequencies to go up or down, making it a little tricky to use I guess. (But it's like riding a bike, you will learn how to do it, and once you do, you will never forget how to do it.)
Personally I love it, because when you really want it to squeel you go full toe down and it screams like no other wah (I've played).
Also I like that even in full heel it doesn't go too low. Before the RMC pic I had a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe which went back after a couple of days. That wah wah sounded so muffled at full heel as it sounded like the guitar came and went when you rocked the pedal.

I give the Picture wah a 10 for the long sweep and excellent sound!

Seems to work great 2 years later, though I had to swap the pot as it got all crackly, but no pot will last forever. It's like changing tubes in your amp I guess..
Contact Geoffrey for new pots.

After dealing with Geoffrey I cannot any longer rate anyone a 10 because my only true 10 goes to Geoffrey. Better customer support cannot be found in this world!

I could actually recommend people to buy a RMC wah just because when you do, you will never have to worry. Excellent customer support is just a mail away.

One time I mailed Geoffrey and I recieved an automated reply saying that he had taken his first vacation in many years and that he would get back to me as soon as he could.
That was also the longest time I had to wait for a reply from him.
Do you want to know how long I had to wait??

SIX HOURS!!

I mean, he's on vacation and still replies me in a matter of hours!
I'm really starting to doubt that this man ever sleeps.

I don't own that many pedals, but few of them has a permanent place on the pedalboard. Actually there's only two, the Peterson Strobostomp and the RMC Picture Wah. Also the Memory Man Deluxe hasn't been off the board in quite a while now either.

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RMC IS THE BEST.

Don't worry about people that write about these pedals being noisy or tonesucking etc. They either have faulty units or they doesn't know what they're talking about.

Remeber though that the Picture wah has a vintage voice to it and may not be suitable for modern music. I definitely doesn't say it would work, because it would for me, but some people might think it doesn't. It's just a heads up..

It's a wah without any external controls or knobs...so it's pretty simple. I wanted a wah that would do the clyde mccoy sounds you hear on hendrix records. I don't want to mess with internal trim pots or q-controls. So, I wen't with the Picture wah.

I've owned LOTS of wahs. In the past I've had a Crybaby (modded for true bypass), a VOX V847, a Fulltone Clyde Standard, and a late 60s Itialian made Sun City Wah Face. The Picture wah is where my wah search ends. It has that extremely vocal wah sound you hear in the live stuff from Hendrix and SRV. It's exactly what I've been looking for.

It's handmade...the build quality is excellent. I see it lasting a long time.

I've only e-mailed Geoffrey Teese one time. He replied quickly and was very friendly and helpful. This is another example of why I like dealing with boutique builders...you don't ever get the runaround...just great customer service.

I wish this scale went to 12...this is a well built, fantastic sounding wah.

I've been playing for about 17 years...several of them semi-professionally. My main guitar is a Parsons/White Long Throw B-Bender Tele. My main gigging amp is a Dr. Z Maz 18NR with a 2x12 Z-Best cabinet. I'd definitely buy another Teese Picture wah if this one was lost or stolen.

Picture Wah sounds great but way too noisy - hiss when clicked on. All my effects have true bypass and I isolated this noise to the Picture Wah... I went back to my Vox 848 because of the noise
problem. Can't use this at gigs.....

Setup is Jimmy Page Custom Authentic #110, Marshall JCM800 2203 with 100 series HW cabinets.

Overrated, hyped and WAY too NOISY..... why the heck go through the trouble of bypass and good tone to spoil it with a loud hisssssssssssssss!!!!!

It's a wah-wah, how hard could it be? Adjusting the torque is EXETREMELY easy

I'm using one made in Jan 07 with fuzz friendly technology...
sound quality: Amazin... honestly, dead on to a Clyde McCoy wah.I bought this wah looking for something that could really do Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" extremely accurately. This is beyond what I could have Hoped for. This is absolutely the tone for the version on Electric Ladyland, Jimi could have used this wah and sounded the same. This is the best wah is the world.

absoleutly

Mr. Teese is beyond nice, customers really come first for him.

If you're looking for a good ClydeMcCoy wah then your search is over. Hell, this wah is probably better than the original. Perfect for any vintage Vox wah tones. Way to go Mr.Teese, way to go.