Product Review - Sonuus Wahoo

Having previously impressed with their affordable guitar- and bass-to-MIDI converters, British company Sonuus have brought out their first fully grown effects unit. Designed for both guitar and bass, the Wahoo uses a pair of digitally controlled analogue filters to create all manner of wah, filter and phaser effects. Because the pedal has a digital brain, you can not only store and recall presets, but the pair of filters can be triggered and controlled in all sorts of sophisticated ways using a variety of input sources, ranging from the Wahoo’s expression pedal and pair of independent LFOs to the level or, unusually, the pitch of the input signal. Meanwhile, the Wahoo’s USB port and Mac/PC editor software cater for in-depth patch editing, the sending and receiving of MIDI controller messages and tempo-sync’ing of the Wahoo’s LFOs to your sequencer via USB MIDI. With such a unique array of features, the Wahoo simply demands further investigation.