Pro Analog Supa-Quack Wah

It's a wah. Kick it and it screams or weeps depending on your mood. No manual.... this is a custom order device. Ease of use?? Just takes waking up your foot. Lot's of extra-character to be had with the volume knob and tone knob of your guitar.

Best Wah I've ever heard. Scotty was kind enough to loan me one to try, and I wouldn't send it back. I wasn't even shopping for a wah, I was just curious to see what his Supa Quack was about. Plugged it in, and it was all over. This thing phases, filter-sweeps, treble boosts, bass -fattens, envelope filters... You name it. Retired my Teese picture wah, which retired my RMC3 before that. Nothing against the Teese, btw... That's a great wah too. But the Supa kills it in the low-end content. It also has this vintage resonance that can't be found in a new wah. It's not fair to compare them.

I plan on using this wah for the rest of my life.

Well... it does have some very old components in it. But I tour with mine. You only live once... life's too short to deny myself this type of wah sound.

Scotty's the most dependable music equipment maker/dealer I've ever dealt with. End of story.

I play everything from Country to Garage rock. Hip Hop to Electronica. This wah is a must have for me

On other HC reviews, you always see "how hard is a wah to use?" You can almost say for sure that anybody who writes that doesn't really know how to use a wah.

There's more to using a wah WELL than just stomping on it and pumping your foot in tempo. Good wah users are concerned about the upper and lower ends of the sweep range (Does it fart out or break up in the low end? Does it take my ears out at the high end?), the vocal quality of the wah (How well it goes "wah" or "wow"), and how the wah "curves" as you sweep through its range (at what point in the sweep does it make the "wah" or "wow" sound?). Also, how many sweet spots are there along the range, that add something distinctive to the guitar tone if you place the wah there and leave it there?

A good-to-great wah user is going to consider all those things, and judge a wah on the quality of its delivery and responsiveness in those areas.

So I give this a 10 because (1) everybody else gives a wah a 10 for each of use, but what I really mean by this 10 is that--if you know what you're doing--this wah is really, really responsive.

I use an Alessandro Working Dog (Boxer), Fender Strat, Fender Tele, PRS Santana SE, Orville (Gibson Japan) LP Special. Other effects (OD, delay) from time to time.

I've had just about every wah made. This one kills 'em all.

Here's where I worry a little bit. The wah has an old Clyde McCoy board in it, checked thoroughly by Scotty before he shipped it but still the board is nearly 40 years old.

All the other parts are new (pot, switch) and there's not much that can go wrong with the case.

Scotty called me three times over four months to make sure I was still loving the wah. I've never had a vendor do that before!

The Supa-Quack is a custom creation of Scotty at ProAnalog (http://www.proanalog.com). Mine is a 60's crybaby case and Clyde McCoy board, with a DPDT switch for hard bypass, a Mullard inductor out of an organ, and a Teese pot. I think the board and the case vary from unit to unit, but the inductor, pot, and switch are the same in all of them. Scotty said he tweaks and tunes each circuit to get the same sound out of all of them.

Get one of these if you can. The Mullard inductor gives it a distinctive quack and curve that I haven't heard anywhere else--vocal and texturally rich throughout its sweep. It's got a fantastic curve. It's every great wah sound on every great record, and then some. It doesn't crap out in the low end, it doesn't pierce your ears at the high end, and it responds like a Porsche to all the subtle little stuff a good wah user does with his foot on the pedal.

Sorry to gush, but I had what I thought were five "keeper" wahs I'd picked up over 30 years. After two weeks with the Supa-Quack, I started selling them off. I'm down to just Scotty's wah now.