Vox V848 Clyde McCoy Reissue

Very easy to use. Only about 3 or four lines of instructions but who needs them to use this pedal?

Good sound quality but I would say it is different from real vintage wahs. It sometimes can get too trebly but my Cs3 modified by a Spanish company called Pedaldoc can cope with that and much more. Better sound when placed before the dirt pedals too. I used it once after my distortion pedals (as Hendrix was supposed to do) and it sounded like a volume pedal more than a wah.

Very sturdy. I keep on hearing people saying that their 848 get scratchy after using it just a few times. Not mine, thanks God.

Never had to call them. I hope this stays the same.

Good pedal but maybe a bit too extreme for me. I think without the modified Cs3 it would be a bit to much for me. I prefer the subble vocal sounds of the Crybaby really.

Very easy. Easier to hit the on/off switch then a crybaby

Sounds excellent and IMO it sounds much better then a crybaby. You can get a better range and a better funk sound. You should get a compressor for this baby though because if u dont get used to how high the high end can get, it might hurt your ears. My setup is fender knockoff with Fender vintage noiseless pickups-Vox Clyde McCoy Resissue>Boss SD-1(Soon To be Keeley Modded)>Boss DS-1(Soon To Be Keeley Modded)>Ibanez TS-808> Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr. (Fender Tuner in the Tuner Out)>Boss PH-3 (With Expression Pedal)> To a crappy ol' crate. Im Soon going to get a Hot Rod Deluxe, a Blues Deluxe Reissue, Line 6 Tonecore Verbzilla, and a Line 6 Tone Core Liqua-Flange. I dont hear any additional noise and i didnt give it a 10 because the high end can get ear splitting, but that can be fixed by technique.

This thing feels very sturdy and pretty much built like a tank.

I play blues, funk, pop, and other good stuff. Ive been playing for a couple of years and i spend hours online looking at gear and the i play guitar for a couple hours per day. If it were lost or stolen then i would probably cry and then save up and get another one. These things take up a good chunk of change but its definetly worth it. It is my favorite pedal on my pedal board and it is a necessity if u wanna play funk. I chose this pedal because if was rated the best on musicians friend.

Sounds great for the money. Much better than the first VOX reissue. I now use this in place of my Fulltone and Teese RMC3. Has a nice full sweep AND nice treble bite when needed.

It's been working fine for about a year. The pot will eventually wear out but they all do.

I would replace it if it was lost or stolen. Better value than boutique pedals costs 3 times as much as the Clyde

standard poor design... check out morley's switchless design..

noisy - you bet - pot is scratchy

needs daily cleaning to keep pot from creating scratching sound

junk!

Put in a 9V battery, plug in the unit and go.

I am fortunate enough to have a few of the original halo inductor wahs. 4 things in this circuit dictate tone: type of inductor,type of capacitors,type of transistors and type of potentiometer. These are all different in the reissue. In addition the reissue has what appears to be input buffering. It does sound sort of cool, but does not possess the subtle vocal qualities of my originals.

Looks well built.

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I play rock music, for about 30 years. I have 9 wahs, 3 vintage, 2 boutique (Roger Mayer 9090A and Teese RMC3), 4 which I replaced the boards with my own, in a quest to reproduce the vintage gems. I have come to realize several things,1) Electronic components have tolerences {5%,10%and20%), and all these components on the board add up. Now I am told design engineers take this into consideration on paper. I believe I have heard different. 2) With vintage gear, someone along the line recognized the given piece sounded exceptional, so it was cherished and survived.But then I know folks who have just "old" pedals they don't sound particularly good. Me, I'm going to swap out the guts with a old Vox board I just aquired. Do what makes your ear happy.

it's fine

sounds pretty good...better than the crybaby i have...a bit of volume boost but nothing outrageous...pretty quiet

this the second one...i played one in the store ...liked it...they gave me another one that wasn't a demonstrator...it was noisier...louder clicking when i turned it on etc...so i went back the next day and grabbed the demonstrator that i liked...i hope it is reliable..haven't gigged with it yet...i believe that there maybe a lot of lemon Vox wahs being made...too many testimonials wrt that on this message board ... american worker competence??...i don't know ...it's almost like guitars buy the one you liked ....don't order a new one sight unseen...the jury's stillout on this one

the store replaced my first one and if there are further problems they'll keep replacing them until they et it right

should work out...

Easy just step on it and rock 'n' roll

First i didn't liked it because i put it after my distortion/fuzz effects. If you put it after a distortion/fuzz pedal it works kind of like a volume pedal. But if you put it before your distortion/fuzz
pedal(s)than you have a awesome sound.
my setup is like this.
=> vox v848 => boss ds-2 => Big Muff USA => korg ax 10G => Mxr micro amp => boss bf-2 => boss tr-2 => amp

Seems good built to me i haven't had any problems yet (let's keep it that way).

Don't know never dealt with them.

Well i Play mostly hardrock, classic rock, Blues and rock 'n'roll. If you play that kind of music the vox v848 is the perfect wah for you.

started getting scratchy after 2 days

not reliable, I thought I got a bad one the first time, the second one broke faster than the first

I wrote a review of this pedal recently and said that I loved the tone before it got scratchy and I was going to get a new one. Well I got a new one and this one started scratching sooner than the first one. I don't know if I'm having terrible luck with these things or what, but if two days of playing is all it takes to get the pots scratching on these, then I really cannot recommend them. I thought I must be going insane, but I asked my guitar teacher and he said that's what usually happens to them after you use them for a long time. Well two days is too short and I'm really pissed so I'm giving them another bad review. $150 is a ton of money to spend on a pedal that doesn't last a week.

Very Easy to Use

Awesome sound, compared it to a fulltone Clyde and there was not a noticeable difference. True Bypass was awesome

I've had this pedal 3 days now. Day one it was great. Day two it started to get scratchy. Day Three it stopped working entirely. I'm going to try to get another one though because the sound was so great.

I'm returning mine directly to the store so I hope I don't have to deal with them.

It broke quickly, but then again, I'm going to try to get another one. The sound is awesome.

A monkey could use this.

Schecter C-1 => Clyde McCoy Wah => BF-3 Flanger => Fender Twin Amp.

When the wah effect is engaged, even if your guitar volume is zero, you get a little bit of static (which you can manipulate by rocking the wah back n forth... kinda cool... but kinda useless too), but it's nothing to complain about. When the wah is off, however, there's absolutely no problem.

The range of this wah pedal is awesome! you can get everything from a very deep and muddy "whucka whucka" to a high frequency screechy "wicka wicka". My complaint here is that the toe down position is piercingly loud and screechy playing on clean mode. Playin a chord from heel down to toe-down sounds something like "whucka whucka wakka wakka WHICKA WICKA" OWw... What I've found is that I can eliminate the painfulness of this screech by lowering my tone on the guitar... This... doesn't really work in a live situation, unless all of your clean pieces have at least a bar of rest before you come in with the wah. With distortion/overdrive on, the wah works beautifully. You get a nice wide wah through the entire range of the guitar, unlike the original crybaby and most other wahs.

Comparing it to the Crybaby GBC-95, it's got a much wider range and works much better in the high range for solos and such. I tried the crybaby before buying this, and I found that for any individual notes on the top 3 strings above the 12th fret, you can't hear ANY wah at all. Rocking the crybaby from heel to toe, you can't hear any difference in the tone or frequency range, making it pretty much useless up there. The vox works perfectly up there, wah-ing just like it would on the low E.

My second complaint would be the inflexibility of the wah (but what can you expect? it's a classic old-school wah pedal). If you're looking for a wah you can play with and modify without having to open up and take apart, try the Crybaby GBC-535Q. Even though I WAS looking for something flexible like that, I couldn't stand the auto-off function, because it wouldn't allow me to jam the wah in one position and use it as a frequency filter. If 8.5 was offered, I'd give that score - 1 point off for the painful screech at the toe in clean mode and .5 for the inflexibility. But since it's not, I'll round up to 9.

I've read some reviews that complain about unreliability. I guess there are a few bad eggs in every basket, but so far, mine hasn't turned out to be one of them. As long as you get one that works out of the box and doesn't have any loose cords, it should last you until the pot blows. This thing is made like a brick, and feels like one too.

Of course, this is a little presumptuous, because I just bought the wah today. But i've been playing this same pedal for the last few weeks in the store (it's the only one they had) and it hasn't broken down, so I hope i'm safe.

No clue. Most big companies (as in every guitar-related manufacturer except for boutiques) don't have great service. But i'm hoping not to ever have to deal with them.

I play everything from super clean jazz to metal, but mostly blues and classic rock. This wah is the most versatile that I've seen in my 3-month search for the perfect wah. Although the adjustable crybaby offers more options, it's a pain in the ass with the auto-off function. Nothing else comes close. The range of the sweep is sweet, and the engineering of the pedal is perfect for live performance. If it were stolen or lost, I'd definitely buy another. The painful screech and lack of options does bug me, but it doesn't change the fact that this is the best wah out there that a reasonable amount of money can buy. Try it, then buy it.