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Published on 04/11/09 at 08:38
Behind Real McCoy is a man: Geoffrey Teese. It is he who makes by hand, all RMC wah USA. CMJ 3 is the oldest (released in 1994) and also the most complete catalog.
You guessed, this is wah-wah (very) high end.
The setup is classic rocker rack adjustable resistance, mechanical switches, input / output device, powered by 9V battery or mains.
The particularity of this pedal is inside: a potentiometer exclusive RMC ROC-POT5, control of low frequencies, a midrange control, a control output level, control of Q, and what is more unusual 9 mini-switches to control the sweep of the pedal along with 2 knobs for fine adjustment.
These switches are in fact 9 to 9 octaves and "fine tuners" can play on the intermediate frequencies.
The pedal is solidly built and seriously.
UTILIZATION
Ah yes, I forgot, the adjustable parameters are accessible only inside the pedal. Yes you read that right: we must go back and remove the pedal to change its settings!
This is absolutely anti-practice!
For my part I played in the Dremel ® openings to access the various potentiometers. This facilitates the settings but it is still not ideal.
For a pedal this level range, it is incomprehensible!
SOUND QUALITY
It is on this subject that makes up this pedal.
We are here in the high-end: the sounds are superb, whatever the guitar or the amp used.
More adjustable parameters provide incredible versatility.
Imagine: you can already play the bass and midrange, the volume of output and the Q (filter width scanning).
Most importantly, you have access to 9 mini-switches: each has 2 positions, making 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 opportunities, or 512!
Add the 2 fine tuners to play on the intermediate frequencies and that is an infinity of possibilities.
I assure you, the manual gives you some settings already approaching sounds "known". Other settings have very similar results. But other than that, your imagination is the limit.
Rolls of wahs.
OVERALL OPINION
A pedal expensive (300 euros), hard to find (handmade by Geoffrey Teese) and having the default pedal craft (often fragile, and after-sales service).
The sound quality is very high fly cons. Simply one of the best wahs on the market with the classics Fulltone, Vox, Morley, Dunlop or even Roger Mayer. Furthermore, this pedal is the most versatile: sounds wahs "classic" sounds totally new. A marvel.
For cons, the controls are inaccessible! How is it possible to imagine all the settings and make it so difficult to change?? Incomprehensible! It is therefore necessary to make openings for access, which simplifies the use, but it's not an ideal solution.
For this huge failure I put a severe 8 / 10 in total. Roger Mayer, who uses just the same kind of trick on its Vision wah, found a more practical solution, even if it is not perfect.
You guessed, this is wah-wah (very) high end.
The setup is classic rocker rack adjustable resistance, mechanical switches, input / output device, powered by 9V battery or mains.
The particularity of this pedal is inside: a potentiometer exclusive RMC ROC-POT5, control of low frequencies, a midrange control, a control output level, control of Q, and what is more unusual 9 mini-switches to control the sweep of the pedal along with 2 knobs for fine adjustment.
These switches are in fact 9 to 9 octaves and "fine tuners" can play on the intermediate frequencies.
The pedal is solidly built and seriously.
UTILIZATION
Ah yes, I forgot, the adjustable parameters are accessible only inside the pedal. Yes you read that right: we must go back and remove the pedal to change its settings!
This is absolutely anti-practice!
For my part I played in the Dremel ® openings to access the various potentiometers. This facilitates the settings but it is still not ideal.
For a pedal this level range, it is incomprehensible!
SOUND QUALITY
It is on this subject that makes up this pedal.
We are here in the high-end: the sounds are superb, whatever the guitar or the amp used.
More adjustable parameters provide incredible versatility.
Imagine: you can already play the bass and midrange, the volume of output and the Q (filter width scanning).
Most importantly, you have access to 9 mini-switches: each has 2 positions, making 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 opportunities, or 512!
Add the 2 fine tuners to play on the intermediate frequencies and that is an infinity of possibilities.
I assure you, the manual gives you some settings already approaching sounds "known". Other settings have very similar results. But other than that, your imagination is the limit.
Rolls of wahs.
OVERALL OPINION
A pedal expensive (300 euros), hard to find (handmade by Geoffrey Teese) and having the default pedal craft (often fragile, and after-sales service).
The sound quality is very high fly cons. Simply one of the best wahs on the market with the classics Fulltone, Vox, Morley, Dunlop or even Roger Mayer. Furthermore, this pedal is the most versatile: sounds wahs "classic" sounds totally new. A marvel.
For cons, the controls are inaccessible! How is it possible to imagine all the settings and make it so difficult to change?? Incomprehensible! It is therefore necessary to make openings for access, which simplifies the use, but it's not an ideal solution.
For this huge failure I put a severe 8 / 10 in total. Roger Mayer, who uses just the same kind of trick on its Vision wah, found a more practical solution, even if it is not perfect.