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I am a musician that has been performing for 30 years on the stage, in the studio and stage on a a professional. I have a degree in guitar performance and I play everything from classical, jazz, bluegrass, rock, pop, etc...I have owned approximately 75 pedals currently and have owned twice as many through the years. Yes, I am addicted to shopping for guitars, pedals, amps....you get the point.I am going to first talk about the build of the pedal. It is in a small 3.5" x 1.5" x 1.5". It is built like a tank in a durable metal casing. It does have 3 plastic knobs that have rubber rings around them. I am guessing this is used for both gripping and turining the knobs comfortably and to protect them. It also has a regular size knob in the center that is common on many pedals on the market. That being said, the hardware is great quality and I believe this pedal could withstand the day to day abuse from a professional performer for years if not a life time. The build is simply very high quality for the price.I first decided to try this pedal using a clean sound. It has the following 4 adjustable functions:1. "Sense" knob - The large knob in the middle. It acts as a tone filter/sentativity for the sound. Turn the knob all the way to the left and you get a really throaty wah sound and as you turn the knob to the Right the tone brightens. As you pick softer you get more of that "Cry" sound. I found a good sweet spot for a wah sound was this knob between 10 to 11 o'clock. This could be different depending on the guitar and amp etc...you are using.2. "Freq" controls the frequency. I like this knob a little before 12 0' clock3. "Decay" I found this knob sounds best turned all the way to the right for a more intense wah sound.4. "Pres" Presence knob - acts just like a presence knob on an amp. Fine tunes and smooths out the sound. I liked this best at 2 o'clock.The above settings for each knob was what worked for me as far as getting a professional wah sound.Now, as I experimented with turning the knobs, I found I could get synth like swelling sounds to actually using the pedal as an equalizer to get more of a muted sound for jazz tones or get more of a "Fuzz" sound running it through disortion. I also found I could use the pedal to "melow" the sound and make my bridge pickup on a Les Paul sound like the neck pickup on a tell or a neck pickup on a Les Paul itself. I could get a lot of different cool tones just from this tiny pedal. The sensativity of each of the knobs used to change each setting are very sensitive and usable unlike other higher end auto wahs or filter pedals I have used in the past where I could not tell whether turning the knobs did anything. This pedal is especially great for funk and syncapated rifts where dynamics are needed to help accent certain notes or making different percussive sounds in between notes or chords. This pedal I will be using for live performances and studio. When I purchased it, I did not plan on using it except as a toy to play with per say and wasn't expecting how professional, clean, and sturdy this pedal is. This pedel is true bypass and there is no drop in the volume when engaged. No popping, no fizzle, and the sound does not manipulate the original signal that can cause the intergrity of your sound to change.Summary: This pedal is as sturdy as it gets. Super versatile as it can be used as a auto wah, equalizer/filter, synth tones, etc... Professional sound quality and sounds better than pedals I spent 4 plus times for. I have owned auto wahs from the popular cock fight pedal (which I returned), to all the major brands and have refused to use any of them for live or studio use. Most I have returned and have just stuck to a wah pedal. This pedal can really free you up to move around on stage and will use it for live and studio performances. I will buy another one so I can have two different settings I can utilize while performing live without adjusting the knobs and since it is so small it does not take up a lot of space on my people board.Note: I will update this with a video when I get a chance to video and record the different uses I found intriging about this pedal.

Great price, great unit, sounds awesome with both my Les Paul and Mosrite.

So I’ve never used an auto-wah pedal before. I wanted to try one since I don’t much like rocking my foot back and forth like I'm having a seizure. I primarily use regular wah's for the extreme low to highs or for a pure tone boost. This is not the function of this pedal.This comes with 4 knobs, sensitivity, frequency, decay, and presence. The first thing I noticed is that the sensitivity knob almost acts like a tone knob on a guitar. This kind of gives you a range of a really muddy wobbly sound all the way up to a bright wobbly sound.Messing with the knobs showed me a couple of interesting options. For one you can dial in a nice splash spring-reverb type sound without actual reverb, which I think is the highlight of the pedal. This sounds great playing funk (as advertised) chords. I do not believe it would substitute for a classic wah pedal however as you cannot quite dial in any way over the top sounds like rocking your foot on a wah really quickly. For me this pedal is essential if you’re playing funk rock or straight funk, but you’ll still want to hold onto your wah for playing Jerry Garcia or Jimi Hendrix kind of stuff. I wish this could emulate that, minus the deduction of a star.This pedal also conveniently comes with velcro and a small dual-90 degree cable to hook up into your pedal board. It is small yet built very sturdy. The pedal is true bypass.

I have a Boss Katana amp, and really like the sound of the auto-wah. I wanted to grab a pedal so that I could throw it on my board and be able to use the effect without fiddling with my amp. I grabbed this pedal because... well it was cheap and I hoped it would get the job done.In my personal opinion, the sensitivity of the pedal makes it borderline unusable, and it never got as "wet" sounding as I wanted without literally maxing the knobs out. Since I had to max it out to get close to what I can produce from the Katana at 1/2 to 3/4 on the amp's dial, I can't give this pedal more than 3 stars. I do have to give it points for the size (it's small!) and the fact that it works.If you are looking for an auto-wah, I suggest looking at some other brands, and possibly buying used if price is an issue. Since the built-in effect on my Katana is a "Boss" auto-wah, I am willing to bet that pedal rips. After doing some more research, I ended up purchasing a nano q-tron envelope filter pedal (not exactly the same as an auto-wah, but the demos I found online won me over), and I am satisfied with that purchase.