Behringer Optical Wah Pedal For Electric Guitar

I’m updating this review to reflect how my opinion has changed over time: this is the best Wah for bass currently being sold, regardless of price.

As with most Behringer products this is massively underpriced even with the budget cutting materials. It doesn’t feel weak or tacky, I have a Morley too and even though it’s basically two slabs of material that you can jump on if you like I don’t feel anxious when I switch to the behringer, it’s solid.

I use many wahs in many wahs. The hellbabe goes so well after my distortion chain, I can either avoid the upper range by using the frequency control or control that fuzz and get some excellent bass stabs that cut through when I need them to. It isn’t as fun on its own as my Morley or My George Dennis but as part of a chain this pedal is so versatile and truly works as a true bass wah or as a lead wah for distorted bass that sits high in the mix.

As you can see from my photos I have a good frame of reference. Most of my pedals are Boss, EHX or they are amazing pedals from companies that are famous in other areas, like Fender or Marshall. Behringer pedals hold their own, this and the tube modeller are overpowered for their price, and the sansamp copy isn’t awful either.

A ver todos esos músicos expertos y profesionales ya déjense de cosas! Estos pedales behringer suenan y funcionan literalmente igual que los BOSS cuál es la diferencia? El material de la carcasa, a ver SI es de plástico pero no es cualquier plástico obviamente estan diseñados de un material resistente ustedes creen que van a fabricar algo no resistente cuando su función es estar en el suelo y hay que estarlo pisoteando?! No sean absurdos! Claro que a pesar del material son resistentes si buscan en Youtube o Google videos o imágenes de estos pedales quebrados o rotos NO HAY! por qué? Por qué no les pasa nada! resisten sin problema Así que ya dejen de hablar de más y aprovechen ahorita que cuestan un tercio de lo que cuestan otros y de lo que valdrán en un futuro, De nada!

Very good product and very good seller service.

This is nice choice for a wah pedal if you don’t want to drop a lot of money on a Dunlop or other “high end” pedal. It’s made of plastic but don’t let that scare you away. This is very tough, industrial strength plastic. You’re not going to break it with normal use. If you jump up and down on it, then maybe it won’t last so long. It’s got some pretty cool features like a “boost” button, range adjustment knob which sets the tonal range of which sounds are most affected by the wah. You can set it to work on the higher tones to the lower tones and everything in between. It’s also got a volume knob which is handy. There is also a place to adjust the tension on the pedal. I couldn’t really tell that it made much of a difference. All in all it’s a good wah pedal for the money. It’s definitely worth giving it a try. Just save the packaging and return it if you don’t like it.

I was quite hopeful about this replacement for my dead Cry Baby pedal. I like the idea of the dual power source and the auto pedal return. There are tons of great reviews. Seemed like a sure thing.

Wrong. While the pedal build quality was generally great, the battery compartment and installation was ridiculous – tricky to mount the battery in the housing lid, and it fell out easily.

The real deal breaker, however, was how incredibly noisy the pedal was. Pedal movement was good and the auto return spring felt great to use, BUT the circuit switching off and on every time the pedal went all the way to heel down position was extremely noisy, with cracks and pops and cutting off the sound altogether for a split second. It was horrible. The whole point to an optical wah pedal is being quieter. This isn’t.

I tried positioning my foot to avoid the full heel down position, but that just made it harder to use the pedal to get any usable effect. It might work better if there was a resistive threshold that warned you of getting too close to the off position and made it enough harder to go full heel down. Maybe.

In the end, it was just too finicky for me. Also, it would not let you use the pedal as a fixed bandpass filter by leaving the pedal part way throught the range of movement.

While the hardware on-off pushbutton seems like extra work, the switching noise from this pedal makes it completely unusable for me. I am going back to a pedal that has a hard on-off switch and retains a mechanical pot on a gear. Yeah, it may wear out and have other issues, but I am not a working mucisian and I don’t wear out gear very often.

I generally love Behringer gear, but this is a serious fail in my opinion. I returned it.