Ibanez AW5 Auto Wah

Very easy to use. In fact, the first two controls don't seem to change the sound too much. As long as you crank the third knob up it will give you a basic quack.

I'm using it with a MIM 72 Thinline reissue (low output humbuckers) and a HRD. It's fairly quite. Responds well to your attack. Have to hit notes hard to get a strong effect. Otherwise it sucks tone and sounds very dark and muted. But, for a limited use, it sounds quite good - on clean setting w/ hard attack in mid and upper registers. It won't give you any Mutron-like swirls, just a basic quack. Cool so long as you don't wear out that one sound...

It looks like cheap plastic thing - but it works.

This thing is way cool - and way cheap - if you don't want to take the time to learn to use a manual wah pedal and don't want to shell out $100-200 for a true envelope filter type auto wah. On balance, it's a neat little change up for lead work and coloring. But it is very limited in it's application.

It takes some tweaking to find a sweat spot that matches your picking style but it was worth the time spent. Less complicated than my Dano-Wah but more than my Cry Baby wah. The ease of use part comes in when you don't need to rock the pedal with your foot, just stomp and wah..

I have a Gibson Sonex 180, A Silvertone Amp-in-Guitar guitar, A Cort Mustang copy, and a Biscayne strat copy (heavily modded) and for amps a Lab Series L5 and a Guild Thunder I tube amp. The sound is way better than I expected for this plastic series of pedals. I have the tube screamer in this series that I modified to the TS808 specs so I have to say these are better sounding than looking pedals for sure. Not a noisy pedal at all. I would compare the tone to Jerry Garcia in "Fire on the Mountain," or Edie Brickel and the New Bohemians on that one tune they had a hit with.

I have had my Tube Screamer for a few years so I think despite the flimsy case it will hold up with some care. I would use on a gig without a backup but of course I have 2 other "real" wah pedals..

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I play metal, classic rock, blues, reggae.. I've been playing for over 25 years. I use a J Station, a Digitech RP100, The Soundtank Tubescreamer, DOD Grunge Pedal, Danelectro TBone Distortion, and a few others I can't recall. If it was lost I would buy another for one dollar at another yard sale (fat chance). It is a pretty musical pedal and gives a pro quality tone for super cheap.

this pedal is very easy to use, it is not complicated. not hard to get sound of it.

the sound quality is excellent, just perfect. this wah sound is fab. you can't really get better than this pedal

treat it real good and it will be in your hands for a very long time. well if you want use it for a gig. I would

i have kept it in a really good condition and it never broke out on me cause this is my baby. i love it.

THIS IS THE BABY TO HAVE IT HAS A CLASS WAH EFFECT, IT'S NOT HARD TO USE OR TO GET USE TO. IF YOU WANT A WAH PEDAL THIS IS THE ONE. I LOVE IT.YOU CAN'T GET A BETTER ONE THAN THIS. IT'S A IBANEZ A TOP CLASS MAKE. IT ONLY COST ME #12. THATS RIGHT #12 IS THAT CHEAP OR IS THAT CHEAP? IT ALWAYS HELPS OUT.

just recently purcahsed it froma mate for only #12. THATS right #12
i think that this pedal is easy and simple to use. the sound qulity is amzing. it's great

The sound is excellent. it is not complicated just easy. there are no weak effects to it.

treat it real good and it could be in your hands for a very long time.

i had no problems getting it and getting used to it.

i use it for rock music. but sometimes i use it for the great sound effects used in the somg such as Generator by the awesome Foo Fighters. i know that the intro uses a guitar but it sounds great on a bass with this great Pedal.

It has knobs. Twiddle them.

I use a Mexican Tele with a Fender Princeton amp. It gives a nice synthy tone on full whack with rapid hammer-ons and pull-offs, which is what I use it for. Works well playing Duran Duran and Prince type stuff too. It mainly sounds rubbish when the range is high.

I had mine around 2 years. No problem at all.

I play indie rock with lotsa FX. I use it on one song for weird noises. I have been playing for 7 years and I own a DOD TEC4X which I recently stopped using because it has the shortest power supply cable in the world and no battery power. I also use an Ibanez flanger, a Marshall Supervibe chorus and a Boss DD-5 Delay.

The best thing about this is that even when the battery is low it sounds ace.

Not hard to use, but needs more time than an overdrive to figure out. Just take the time to tweak it and it will be done and set for a long time!

Not really noisy for an auto wah, warm sounding wich I like. Like I'd expect form any auto wah/enveloppe filter it's not at its best on full on distortion but it's really nice on clean.

I would, got this as a fool around toy but I'd since I baby my stuff.
As far as the plastic issue goes you can always housed this in another box if you ever get a problem and it will solve the plastic issue.

No more email service wich sucks... wake up it's 2001!

Great on funk(of course duh!) Been playing for 10+yrs.. my gear http;//www.angelfire.com/pq/glorbz/BunkerStudio.html
Stolen or lost I'd try to find another one since this is now discontinued an Ibanez stopped making any auto filter or auto wah(for now anyway)... I might have to look elsewhere if not able to find one used again. Compared it to others like Guyatone wah rocker thought it was to bright for my need, checked also the DOD but made up my mind too late as someone else bought it before me(the old FX 25 not the new FX25B) It truly is helpfull in spicing up my funk leads and clean rhythm... Try it with a compressor before it and a flanger after it... sounds quite great in that setup(comp used CP-9, flanger used FL-9 both by Ibanez) For the price I paid it's a sweet deal not to let go by if you're looking for an auto wah.

You need IQ 15 or higher... pretty simple

Bit noisy, but sounds great. Best way to plug it after preamp, other way it might be weak.

It doesn't seem to be reliable, but for the present it's works well.

Never dealt w/ 'em.

I play mostly jazz, blues, funky. I'm playing for 6 years. I use it with my Fender Squire Telecaster, Marshall 9000 series preamp and ZAX zva-15 combo. Never forget to use it as a spice - carefully! If it were stolen or lost, I'd buy new one (or used one)

This pedal is easy to get the hang of and the manual explains everything perfectly. Anybody can figure out the knobs and use it.

I use this pedal along with many others and this one is my favorite. I play an Ibanez RG320 and i use a Crate Half-Stack. I get very little noise when the pedal is on so that pretty good. The effects sound great as long as you keep a fresh battery in often. It sounds great for playing No Sex by Limp Bizkit and several other oldy songs it'll sound great with.

I have never had a single problem with this pedal and i would use this pedal on 90 gigs without a back-up.

I play the heaviest s*it out there and it sounds good to throw the wah in every now and then and i have used it on several gigs and the audience always looks at me as if im making magic when turn the pedal on. ive been playing for 5 years i have a Strat and Ibanez and a Les Paul. This pedals has helped me with music so many times and if it were stolen i would buy a new one then track down the guy that stole it and beat his ass then get my old one back.

Well the damn thing has nothing written on it. So you have to look through a multi-languaged manual. Other than that piece of cake.

This is a pretty good pedal. It isn't "the" auto wah, but it does what it's good at. I like this pedal a lot since it isn't just your good old simple envelope filter. It's a goofed up, little distortion hinted, auto wah. Which is cool if your into it. I like to use it with a DOD Corrosion metal and a Ibanez FL9 Flanger. Or use it with a DOD Octoplus (For synth not octaves, I got a OC-2 for that) and a BOSS DS-1. If you add some effects to it, it can sound like a whack ass bullfrog with the hiccups. Pretty fun live.

It's plastic. I wouldn't depend on it at all. But they are enexpensive pedals. So you could buy more.

Well I play hardcore, funked up, loud, dumb poop-hed shit. And for that style it's good for it. But I just wished that Ibanez still made them like the "9" series. The plastic just ain't cutting it.

Its pretty easy to use. you gotta look in the manual to find out what knob does what because they arent printed on the pedal. It also took me a minute to find out where the hell the battery goes. other than that, a dumbass could figure out how to use this thing... and I am one!

If you're expecting a huge, orgasmic, bubbly, Q-tron, Mu-tron, DOD envelope filter... Your not going to get what you want. Its like none of those, which isnt necessarily bad, its just that it has a very unusual sound to it. Imagine having a wah turned on set in the middle of its sweep, it goes a little bit up and a little bit down but never makes the full sweep. But thats not a bad thing. Its very wierd. it filters to your picking attack like a normal envelope filter though. I love this thing. Its not noisey at all and doesnt eat up batteries. If you want to use this unit with distortion you have to lay off on the sensitivity, but if you want a nice clean quack, you then need to turn the know up. No one that I know of uses this thing, and I really dont know why I got it. I just play Mr. Bungle, Korn, Deftones, Incubus, LB, (hed)pe type crap. This thing sounds the best with a DOD Gonkulator, it sounds like your amp is broken, covered in feces, and has just arrived off Satan's dark, winged charriot.

Well its made of plastic and looks like a toy, I would depend on it with my life.. ha ha. I dont know why Ibanez builds these soundtanks like this, kinda dumb. But I'm not one of those idiots who jump on their pedals.

It hard to describe the kind of music I play. Like Hardcore, Punk stuff but also bunglesque, funk, wierdo bumpkin shit, with a hip-hop vibe. Its a good match. If you want to know my whole rig, e-mail me and I will gladly tell you, its to long to list here. I wish this this was built better, and had a more prominent vowel-like wah to it, but then again its not a fucking Q-Tron! Your not going to be Bootsy Collins or Flea with this... What you will be is a super sexy bumpkin like me. SB99

The Auto-Wah pedal is pretty nice...I like it. It took me a while to get it figured out, because the manual is absolutely devoid of any useful information, but now that I have it, it's all good.

heeheehee I'm using it through a P/A system (okay, you can stop laughing now). The guitar I'm using is a Jackson PS-4. There is only noise when I use it with a DOD FX-86, but that's because I don't really have anything to cancel that noise. When I first used the AW-5, the effects were really weak and the pedal only filtered out the bottom end. But now that I've figured it out, it's pretty crazy.

HA! Gig? Yeah right. I'll stick with my Crybaby for that one.

No customer support here...

I play almost anything. From Slayer to Brian Setzer...what a combination. The AW-5 looks pretty kewl, and it helps out a lot when I need really quick wah, so that I don't get my feet tied up. If this was stolen, I'd probably buy a new one because it's just kewl. That, or I'd buy a Line 6 Ax2 amp which has this effect built in, and I'd sell all my stompboxes :-)

Hook it up, push down on it, and wah away. Thats all there is to it. When you are done just push back down on it to turn it off. It has an overdriven wah sound to it with 3 knobs, range, depth, and sens.
I GOT IT FOR $100 AND YOU CAN OWN IT FOR ONLY $70

I use this wah wah with a Squier Stratocaster and a Crate amp and it works great. When you turn all the knobs up you can hear the wah wah more that the guitar, so don't do that unless you want a noisy ending to a song. It works great with all the amp settings and the effects are not like a big deal it just gives you your basic wah wah.

The pedal itself is in absolute perfect condition and very tough. If you threw it against a concrete wall of course it is going to break but it is tough enough, so you get the point.

The Ibanez Co. is just fine.

I play mostly rock and alternative and the wah wah works great for that music. If it were stolen i'd buy the same one, this is my most commonly used pedal and reccomend it to all guitarists.

This pedal has 3 knobs: range (sort of like a tone control), depth (how big of a wah), and sensitivity (how hard you have to play to activate the wah) However, it isn't as easy as you might think to get a good sound out of this pedal. I fing the range dial makes a big difference. All the manual does is explain what the dials do.

I play a '79 Fender Squire Strat. The guitar runs through this pedal and a Boss Hyper Fuzz into either a Crate practice amp or a really old tube amp. This pedal can be very noisy! When I use my amp's overdrive and this pedal, there is this loud swishing noise that is there even when I turn down my guitar's volume knob. Also, I don't think this effect is quite strong enough. I would be nice if the depth could go deeper.

Well, it isn't exactly a Boss. However, I don't plan to be throwing it out my window or performing any other destructive action with it in the near future. It should last a long time for my purposes.

Haven't had any problems yet.

This is really a pretty decent pedal. The casing might not be that durable, but solid steel casing isn't always necessary. When put before Hyper Fuzz, it creates a cool synthy sound. Because the effect isn't so extreme, it can get boring after a while if you are playing on a clean channel. When I play with this pedal on my amp's overdrive channel, I can get some interesting sounds for riffs and solos. Really, my only complaint with this pedal is that the effect doesn't go deep enough. But for only $50.00 ...

Just three knobs on it. Its real hard to really get to contour your wah but it will do for messing around the house and stuff.

Its okay for a little stomp back auto wah. Its probably the best auto wah I could find in a pedal. I found some kewl rack auto wahs but this is pretty kewl

I can depend on it. I usually just use it around the house. When I do live gigs I use wahs and effects all through the mixer so I dont use this pedal live in gigs.

I love ibanez they are very friendly. I have never had the problem to deal with them about pedals but I did work with them on making a custom Ibanez 7 string and they were very friendly and fast to me.

I would buy it again.

Only 3 Knobs. Easy to change battery. Marked in and out slots.

Good. The effect is not as strong as the boss auto wah.

Looks durrable enough but i don't Know.

Excellent for the price.

It is a very simple to use effect, since there are only three knobs. They control range, depth, and sensitivity.

The wah effect is quality. I liked it better than the Boss A-wah. I use this pedal to add wah effects after my Digitech RP-10 (it is a great combo because it enables you to add wah to any sound generated by the RP-10). I found this to be an unbeatable combo with absolutely nothing else necessary to create any sound in the world. Try the AW5 after your fx chain or processor- you'll love it!

It looks really easy to break, and the knobs are kind of flimsy; but, with the right care I think it will last. Just don't play catch with it or pour booze on it.

I love this pedal, and with my equipment it gives me the sound I want. If you try it with things like harmonies, octave dividers, or ever phasers it sounds amazing. A little delay fattens up the sound. The depth setting can smother the sound when cranked up, so ease off the knob, cowboy. I really swear by this hunk of cheese, and if you try it, you will too.

It is relatively simple to get a decent sound from this pedal, since all parameters are controlled with three idiot proof dials.

The wah effect is preety good for an auto wah. I was very apprehensive abount the product, but it turned out to be quite useful. Great for those times you feel like Jerry. Doesn't smother distortion.

It is entirely plastic and the knobs are really wobbly. Not heavy duty.

Have never had to deal with Ibanez, but when all the knobs snap off the damn thing I'll mail them back to the company with a nasty letter (and maybe a dead fish).

I would buy it again because it's the best SOUNDING autowah in a small pedal, but truthfully you're better off skipping the stompboxes altogether and getting an RP-10 or other fx multi processor.