Voodoo Lab Wahzoo

We all know wah pedal tones are controversial. Some love one kind and will not accept anything else, others think that sound is garbage and love some other sound. Then comes the matter of the treadle. It took me a long time to find a wah pedal I loved.For the longest time, I used a Moogerfooger Low Pass FIlter pedal, side stepping the whole wah thing. Then I got a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe and found myself falling in and out of love with it over and over. I'd tweak it endlessly. It's a fine wah. I've also had a vox and a cry-baby, and I used to have a Morley. None really fully satisfied me. The low pass filter pedal remained my go-to wah. That is 2 pedals, the low pass filter and the expression pedal. To be fair the low pass could do a lot of different sounds for me.I also used to keep an maxon auto-filter on my board and then I started using a Mad Professor Snow White Auto Wah. Before those I used an old Boss dynamic filter that a friend gave me. Another pedal that spent time on my board is the Mooger Murf. I kept a Keeley fix-wah pedal on my board for while too. My point is that I love filters, and they've always been an integral part of my sound. I often alternate between "wahing" with the tone circuit on my instrument (Alembic replacement electronics are amazing both for their sound and for this crazy on-board wah it can deliver) and the pedal.I've talked a lot about my addiction to filter effects and how many ways I've tried to feed that addiction, but my point is that short of the Alembic on-board filters (seriously, check them out for your instrument if you're ever thinking about replacement pups/electronics) and the Mooger Low pass, I was never fully satisfied with my sound. Oh, and the mooger? Well, you have to "drive" the circuit properly to sound right. You get on stage, you set up, you check your sound and either you've got it feed properly or you don't. When I didn't, I never felt good about trying to tweak it there while everyone is waiting to play. I would just remove it from the signal chain. That might have more to do with my lack of patience than any flaws in the pedal-- and that I always came with different gear to keep things exciting (ie chaotic). I go from using one to three fuzzes, over drives, treble boosters, and/or preamps, in front of my filter/wah part of my signal chain.The Voodoo Labs wah changed all that. I love the tone and the treadle and I love the step-wah and auto-way features. This pedal does a great job at the auto wah, is a great sounding standard wah with a great feeling treadle for my way of playing, and the step modes just seal the deal for me. I absolutely love this pedal. It is consistent and problem free for me regardless of what else is in the signal chain.In step mode your signal cycles through different filter frequencies (ie different places along the heel-toe continuum of the pedal), like a step sequencer. The heel-toe determines the tempo of the cycle. The pedal has perfectly useful presets or you can set your own steps easily. It is a bigger pedal than a cry baby or a vox or that kind of pedal, but it does so much more. It's a wah, an auto-wah, and a step-wah: use all 3, often.