Worth the Money...

I purchased this five months ago after much research and having used a cry baby and the wah model in my vox tonelab se for many years. i have to say this thing is fantastic. The richness and tone from this pedal left me wanting nothing. the wacked mode is my favorite, unexpectedly; and sounds like nothing else i've ever heard. had band members literally with their jaws dropped on playback after i used it in place of the other wah's in a song we've been working on; wonderful effect. the jimi mode sounds like it should and makes the cry baby sound like a toy. the gain switch is brilliant and so so helpful. works like a volume control without having to mess with your overall volume and functions like a gain booster when you turn it up (meaning you don't have to touch your overdrive/distortion for solo boosts!) if i didn't know better i'd swear fulltone put tubes in there; that's how fat, warm, and organic it is. best purchase since i bought my first guitar!

The best Wah Pedal I've ever used and worth every penny!

I bought this pedal after doing 3-6 months of research and I'm glad I did. The LED is a definite plus in dark club type stages; The 2 chicken knobs on the side have great functionality.

Though I like the Whacked mode best, The soul/fuzz mode gives a very nice "Shaft" type distortion to the sound and the Jimi mode his just pure,clean wah. Whacked gives the wah an almost Rotary -delay type sound, which kind of startled me when I first tried it but has , now , become my favorite.

The other chicken-knob seems to be, mostly, a gain effect to my ear. I ordered the FullTone PS1 9V power supply, directly, from FullTone, though it would've been more convenient to just buy it thru Sweetwater. It has one more unique feature if you screw off the plates on the metal facing under the pedal: ie:.. and that's another clock dial circuit that I adjusted to a more bass/type sound when you rock back on the pedal. It was simple to do and Mike Fuller's personal fave setting is marked on the dial once you open and view it.

The owners manual describes all this and I found it very helpful. The thing is built like a tank and I've received more complements about the sound of it, from followers of my band, than any other pedal I've used in the last 2 years, excepting, of course, my Moog 103 and 104Z.

This is,definitely, the mother of all wah's!! Buy it! It's worth every penny and makes my old Cry-Baby do just that.

Average

I considered this an average wah pedal. I agree, the sweep and sound of this pedal is good. I mainly enjoyed the Jimi setting. But the other settings were good to. When I got my first one of these, it was defective, and had a horrible scratching sound when rocking the pedal back and forth. I sent it back and got another. While it didn't have the exact same issue, it did have noise when rocking the pedal back and forth, but more annoyingly it was only heard while playing. So every time you went to make this sucker sing (which it does) You'd try real hard to concentrate on the beauty of the sound rather than the background noise it was creating. It was like having your little brother tapping you on the shoulder repeatedly every time you tried to rock out. Unfortunately I just couldn't look past it. Perhaps I got another defective unit. I'm no stranger to Fulltone, and I've owned many of their pedals. This is the only pedal I ever had issues with from them, and to think I had them twice, and just not have it be how the pedal is, would be surprising to me.

In addition to that issue there is a loud pop when you switch between settings which was annoying. The treadle was to tight out of the box and required adjusting, which was also annoying. Fulltone also included a buffer switch on later models, to work with Fuzz pedals. This also annoyed me :)