Boss V-Wah... a review of sorts.

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Gday guys

Today I went to my music shop that i like to order a bass wah (105q) when the dude that works there (i know him a little bit and he helps me out alot) says have i tried just using a guitar wah? And goes on to tell me that his bassist uses one to get a sound that cuts through more and has the higher freqs in there. I figure, meh, might as well try it.

He pulls out this new boss v-wah that theyve just started stocking and we go through and plug it in. now this thing just looked pretty sweet here are some of the cool features:
-6 wah sounds, including cry-wah (JMI crybaby), vo-wah (vox v486), mo-wah (morley bad horsie) bass mix, advanced and custom (where you can create your own wah sounds)
-Voice effect (talking modulation sounds)
-Uni-V (Uni-Vibe sounds)

On some of the wahs i lost a bit of bottom end, but found by sweeping through with the freq knob i could bring it back. One thing that i really liked about this is the way its activated... (this pedal has no spring) when its fully toe down, u press more into it and it engages. I liked this because if you going nutz moving ur foot up and down the effect wont turn off if you are fully heel down like a 105q does. Same thing to disengage, just lean right into it.

I didnt mess much with the drive function, but found a nice tone that added a bit off grit. The drive function is essentially 8 different distortion effects, each one modelling the sound of a certain pedal. These are the different pedals they are emulating: boss MT-2 metal zone, EHX big muff, guv'nor, boss OD-1 overdrive, boss OD-1 distortion, boss OD-2 overdrive, boss BD-2 blues driver, and a booster with flat response.

I found a few nice settings, and i actually got some pretty cool Timmy C-ish tones aswell. Around here the bass cry baby sells for about $350, and this was $400, but with the discount i got (or what some one would talk the price down to) was $320, which is pretty damn good. I would recomend that you go out and try one, i was blown away

Peace
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superbassman, from what ive read about the talk effect, its bassd (woooo... i spelt base like bass ) on the AW-3, and then theyve taken it even further, adding more vowels into it or something. After reading the manual last night, the amount of things you can adjust on this pedal just make it even more cooler. Im pretty sure you can sweep through to change the vowel sounds that you get. But for now, im a little bit unsure and cant really find out because i cant pick up the pedal until next week
in other news, my brand new small clone is arriving tomorrow!!!! woooooooooooooooooo!!!! party, excellent, bonus

 

what?

 

ah i see... i havnt used the Aw-3 so i didnt know sorry
okay... from the manual
"A further advancement beyond the BOSS HUMANIZER, this effect produces "talking" modulation sounds and realistic human voice sounds.
Imagine the effect timmy c uses on calm like a bomb, i can get sounds like that by adding the distortion to it, so take away the dist. sound and it gives sounds similar to that.

 

sorry if i cannot be of any more help, if i go into the studio ill try and get some clips for you. or you can try it out yourself

Peace