Vox Wah-Wah

It's a wah, very simple to use. You activate it and just rock the pedal. There're no additional knobs or buttons. I'haven't the manual, but who needs a manual for using a wah like this?

I've used this pedal with many setup, including Mesa Triple rectifier, Fender Twin Reverb silverface, Fender Bandmaster blackface, various marshall combos and stacks, Peavey and with a rack system too. It always has it's own sound, deep and throaty. I've used this pedal with an Ibanez RG-550, a Gibson SG-Z, a Smith Strat a Patrick Eggle and a 1962 Jazzmaster. It always works good, there're no problems at all. Sometimes, if I don't use it for a long period, it's a little noisy: I just clear the pot and then it works fine again. With this wah you get the typical Hendrix sound. It has more excursion than Jim Dunlop's Wha-wah. With my Smith Strat, this pedal, the fuzz-face, a Bandmaster blackface and a good Marshall SLP I have the sound similar to Jimi's one.

It's the only pedal I depend on it. It's the best wah I've ever tried. It's a 70's italian model and it's not very easy find another pedal like this, even if I live in Italy. I'm always trying to find at least another 70's Vox wah, for using it as a backup, but they cost a lot, like 300$. Crybaby and Ibanez WH-10 are good too, but I can't imagine me playing without this pedal on the floor, because this really fits with my style of playing guitar.

Never needed a customer support

I like to play mainly post rock, but I've played crossover for some years. I like to play blues and 70's rock too. It's a good match with all the music I've played. I've been playing guitar for 8 years and I have the Vox wah for about 7 years. I've got an Ibanez WH-10 too. It's really cool, but less versatile. I use the Vox wah with a Dallas arbiter Fuzz-face. You have to put the Fuzz-face before the wah in your pedal chain because you get a better sound. I use also a Moogerfooger Ring modulator, a Small stone and an Electro-Harmonix Attack Equalizer. You can get really weird sounds with the wah and the ring modulator. The main feature of this pedal I love is the high frequencies it has if you rock on the pedal. Other wah pedals do not have this sound , are more darker sounding.And many pedals have less excursion. If it were stolen, I'd cry like a baby and I'd buy another Vox wah.

This was the first pedal I EVER used. Never even fooled around with another at the store and I understood this. Hell, I knew what to do BEFORE I even bought it!

Great sound. It used to pop when I'd switch it on or off but it works good now. It's not that great with the amp I have but the amp is crap so there's nothing to complain about. Great Hendrix tone. Also good for Cream.

The little rubber feet keep falling off, but I've found that it's easier to used with the feet off. Also, I'm too poor to use a backup so I don't need one. 8 because feet fell off but it works better.

Never dealt with

Great pedal. If you're going to buy a wah, get this one.

Simple. Great feel as far as throw of the pedal.

Upgraded to true bypass. (simple procedure).

Really deep throaty sound, especially with a driver of some sort (i use a reissue Big Muff) before it. It's not noisy, especially when the bypass is fixed. A grate effect alone or in a chain, to be honest I was not really into wahs, a little underwhelmed I guess, mainly into out-there and real versatile units, but was converted with this.
I really like it for taming and bringing out the sounds of other effects. You can do hendrixy stuff I guess, I'm not really about that.. more the Sonic Youth, MBV, Velvet Underground, etc thing. It's really nice with the Muff, and sounds great in static (stuck wah) positions, doing GREAT Sabbath, Dino Jr., and Stooges S/T album impressions. It's also got that sort of old school rockin vibe.
It's the Rickenbacker or AC30 of pedals. The only complaint is occasionally it cuts my sound when being switched on/off, but it's not really a big problem.

This thing is super heavy duty, I could not see it BREAKING, although it's probably only a matter of time for the pot/inductor. If (when) that goes I'd probably want to order a Fulltone replacement.

I'm a dronerock-shoegaze-improv-psychedelicfreekout guitarist and pedal-player, and use this with some other pedals. I really like the Muff with it, but would like to move up to a Fuzz Factory for even more weirdness and gain. And probably much better fuzz-tones, and definitely better bypass. Its got great looks, great sound, sits well with other pedals. I was also considering the Whammy Wah, and the Snarling Dogs multi-wahs, because I'm just into versatile equipment.
This is a great pedal, you won't be disappointed.

Just step on it (on) and wha all you want, then step on it (off)

The sound is classic, very Hendrixy and Cream sounding. And theirs lots of wha so you can still here it through a lot of fuzz.

I've only had it two days but it seems very dependable.

Compared to the Crybaby they were pretty similar on the clean channel but when you add lots of fuzz I couldn't even notice the Crybaby, but the Vox was still putting out plenty of wha. I would for sure by this again if it were stolen or lost.

WTF?! Just plug your guitar in and rock it with your foot. If you can't understand that you shouldn't be allowed on the highway.

Best wah I've heard. It sounds just like Hendrix's. I'd play with it for hours.

This thing could survive Janet Reno.

Didn't have to deal with 'em so far, and doubt I ever will.

If you have the money and want a good wah, get this one. The only thing I don't like about it is the crappy bypass [like some others have pointed out]. It kills some of the high frequencies.

hey man if you have quarter of a brain, this baby will turn on/off for you.

in my opinion I think this is the be all end all of wahs this is it, the original, the one that started it all, I have owned literally every single wah out there on the market and recently I came accross this babe at a garage sale. I would protect this babe with my life.

this is a true story. I have droped the mother f-er out my second window and all it got was dirt landing on my lawn. and when i picked it up to bring it back up stairs, I triped and it feel 12 steps down to my suprise, it only sufferd a few scracthes.

these guys are assholes, I couldn't get trough for 60 mins and when I got through they hung up on me. this happend 3 times and then I said f**k it.

can we say kick ass?

Simple, you all know the concept!

Sounds great, has a kind of growliness that sounds pretty cool. Very organic sounding. In bypass mode, it tends to eat your tone though since it's not true bypass. I bought a new switch from Stewart-MacDonalds, and modified it to be true-bypass. You can find this modification on the web if you go searching for it, it's pretty easy and makes a BIG difference in tone when bypassed. Course, that left me with the old switch hanging around. It always bugged me how these things eat batteries when you're not actually using the effect. What I ended up doing was drilling a hole under the narrow end of the pedal so that there was ample clearance for me to install the old footswitch. Then I installed the old footswitch so that if I depress the narrow end of the pedal all the way down, it's just enough to engage the switch. I then wired the battery circuit into this switch. Next, I drilled another small hole where I could see it while standing up playing, and added a small red LED. Now, I just kick the pedal all the way back to turn it on when I want to use it for wah. The red LED lights, and I just use like I normally would. If I'm not going to be using it for any more tunes soon, I just kick back again on the pedal, and the battery is shutoff till I need it. Works great, and yes, you do have to be in bypass mode when you shut the battery off.

Very rugged

I play jazz, fusion, rock, blues, and I like a bit of a psychedelic twinge. This pedal's cool for getting the funk groove, or just getting subtle tone modifications during a solo. I only wish that they's offer these with TRUE Bypass right from the factory, it sounds so much better, and it really can't be very expensive.

This is a wah, I mean how hard could it be? Only bad thing is that sometimes it can be hard to click on and off, and that sometimes can throw me off in a live situation.

Let me get one thing straight, this is the original wah, so its gonna sound a little raunchy, but hey, thats the way I like it. It has a very nasely sound when pressed all the way down and you can hear a little air swooshing when you sweep it up and down. Still though this is the original and its a one of a kind.

WD-40 is sometimes required because mine has been known to squeek from time to time. I Rarely use this at gigs, but when the situation calls for it, this is the only wah I would use.

Never dealt with em

Overall I give the Vox a 7. Its the original wah sound and just plain looks cool. Check your hair in the shiny chrome while performing in emergencies=) As I said abover its not the greatest sounding wah and does have its problems but thats just the way I like it.

Could not be easier.

This is definitely the Rolex of Wah pedlas. I tried a friend's Dunlop first and my wife told me never to bring one of these things home again. I picked this one up in a pawn shop (despite her instruction) and even she loves it. Great, warm sound with aboslutely no noise. I use this with a Mexican Strat and a Fender Sidekick Switcher 30W amp. Sounds great clean or distorted.

Great so far. Would use without backup.

If it were stolen, I'd definitely get another, but I would probably have to pay more than I did. I got a steal on this sucker.

It's a wah!! C'mon!!

When the wah is open, it's hard to sumtimes hear the sounds, because of the low tone.

Very reliable.

never dealt with 'em.

All in all, this is a pretty good pedal. Not the best, not the worst. I wish that it had an adapter, rather than just the battery. I've played on dunlop, and vox. If you've got the extra case, just go ahead and buy the vox.