SONICAKEMini Active Wah Volume Effect Guitar Pedal 2 in 1 VolWah Expression Pedal

I was genuinely surprised by the quality of this for the price. As a professional musician that relies on their gear when travelling, generally speaking cheap pedals just arent up to the job. However, i'd seen good reviews despite the price and needed something light when travelling abroad for short trips by air. Normally id use a mission engineering pedal which of course is very premium and robust but also many times more expensive, and very heavy!This sonicake is made from what appears to be and ABS type composite with a metal plate on the bottom and metal hardware in all the right places to keep it strong and functional. There are some nice little engineering things i appreciate too like putting a small rubber pad under where the heel rests as well and the normal toe stops. Its also easy to adjust the tension of the pedal stiffness (you'll need a hex key to tighten this) and also to nip up the the straight gear bolt, where the is an access cutout. Another nice feature is that they've added 5 dense rubber feet with the extra 5th one around the base of the heel right where its needed. Upon internal inspection i was please to see quality soldering and mounting of the pot and PCB, and best of all its a passive pedal so no batteries needed. Im using this with a Quad Cortex and the once calibrated it works perfectly with a nice smooth linear sweep. All good on the operational front!If there was one slight negative, and this is a personal one, it could do with being a tiny bit heavier. I do think they have struck a good balance on the weight but for me, as its smallish, i just want to decrease the chance of it moving at all on stage so i will likely add just a tiny bit of weight to the inside by sticking weight to the other side of the metal base plate (car wheel weights are great for this).I will update this review after some time, but honestly for this price i cannot recommend this enough. In fact, i think ill order another so i can take two with me as both together are still smaller and lighter than the mission pedal.

This pedal has a small neat foot print that's the same size as most standard pedal / stomp boxes, this one has a metal base but sturdy plastic casing. It feels very solid & sturdy and is powered by 9v negative centre pedal / stomp box adaptors (not supplied) although beware there’s no internal battery option. That’s not a problem for me as I’ve got a portable 9v battery pack. A nice thing that separates this pedal from the others is that has a built volume control on the pedal unlike the cry baby, this means you can have the extra volume ready at a dab of your foot rather than having to find the volume knob with your hand while playing. This is a boon if it want to quickly get a bit of distortion. Wah Wah works well & tone wise sounds great with a good sweep & it’s fairly noiseless unless I really crank everything up! Although that said in my place I have a lot of I.T. kit so it’s a very noisy environment anyway. it’s also half the size of the cry baby so portability is great but works just as well. Another nice feature is the LED's which show if the WAH effect is on or off by glowing red or green. I like that visual confirmation without having play a test strum. The price is also an advantage over the similar completion so value wise it seems a great buy to me!

I needed to rearrange my pedalboard but I wanted something lighter and smaller than my Dunlop Wah. I saw this, read the reviews and watched some demos.. On the strength of those I bought it.It's tiny and made of very sturdy hard plastic. On plugging in, it defaults to Volume mode and there are green lights to indicate this. A further press on the top of the pedal takes you to Wah mode, red lights... there is no off.. It is perfectly controllable, despite its small size. The Volume is smooth, and I dare say there are smoother more expensive volume pedals but this works very well.The Wah mode is equally good with a good sweep, and is perfectly capable of those 'Shaft' sounds and wailing lead solos....If you're looking for a value for money Wah that takes up very little room on your board then give this a try..

I like this unit. It doesn't creak like the very cheap one that it has replaced. That one had also begun to crackle, after light use. It's too early to guess how long this one will last. There is no dial for setting the rocker position for zero volume, nor is there any need for one that I can see. This unit is running from an effect unit rather than directly from the guitar; it is suitable for both applications.The volume swell is smooth. It's different from my old pedal, but adapting to the new one is quick and intuitive.The small format might make some people hesitate, but it isn't a problem. It could be a good thing, as it makes space on a pedal board for another box of tricks.

I had a Boss volume pedal which broke after years of use and decided to take a chance on this miniature one as a potential replacement. For basic signal muting, it does the job. No complaints or issues there.However, I've found that the sweep off the pedal isn't huge, so long volume swells aren't as satisfying or as smooth as I'd like. This is just my own experience, as I'm used to have a certain amount of travel when swelling my signal in. I haven't tried it as an expression pedal at all so I can't comment on that functionality.All in all, a good enough utility pedal to have on hand but I think I'll stick with full size volume pedals in the future.