Is it a chorus/vibrato? Sure, maybe, yeah.. But you will quickly slide out of that category in complete tonal wobble.
Is it a warped tape delay effect based on a controllable LFO single? Sure, but you’re one turn of a knob away from redefining that idea altogether.
The Woozy can function as a perfect chorus, vibrato, or lo fi modulation unit. More than all of those things it is the Woozy – that means that it has some features that most of your standard and even boutique pedals won’t have accessible at your fingertips – let’s explore them:
Labeled as ‘Love’ but also known as ‘Master volume’ – as trivial as this might seem, most modulation pedals are limited with their volume. This means that when a Boss style chorus is on, you can control the volume so if there’s a significant volume drop due to the effect you’re in trouble. Luckily the Woozy as the rest of the Champion Leccy pedals that share the LFO design follow the same concept which enables you to freedom to even, raise, or lower you effect sound versus your bypassed tone volume level.
Wet/Dry Mix – ‘Cheer’ – Controls the mix between your dry and clean signal. This along with the main volume control gives you a huge range of control which helps you define your effect as a gentle supportive modulated layer or as a wild ‘in your face’ full force effect.
The mixture of these two parameters will give you a lot of liberty and flexibility as you’ll dive into less standard sounds. You can keep your clean signal loud and clear with a chaotic modulation effect layer in the background. Alternatively, you could strike out the clean sound altogether and turn the unit into a sonic laser beam machine.
LFO – Low-Frequency Oscillation – Tap control:
One of the most noticeable and unique features of the Woozy is it’s LFO tap control, this lets you change to speed of the LFO modulation pulse of the unit as you play live, this makes the unit extremely responsive in live situation as well as in post/studio situations where you’re running and existing audio signal and want to play the pedal itself and record the performance.
The LFO frequency is also controllable with the Tide control knob.
You can see how I used the Woozy to transform the straight ahead drum loop I’ve had in this Video – Woozy Adventures – The Woozy – By Champion Leccy Effects – Multi Track Demo
The ability to dial the LFO pulse goes deeper with the waveform knob which gives you control of the pulse shape that will make the LFO sound sharp – clear triangular shape, or round and smooth with the circular shapes. You can even explore further with the last two random shapes on the knobs spectrum which will give you a wild and unexpected LFO pulse.
The intensity of the LFO shape is controlled by the Sway knob, this lets us go from mild modulation to full seasick wooziness and let the pedal run amok,
So we covered the initial main idea of the pedal LFO control: You can control the general volume, the effect volume, the LFO rate, the waveform shape, and its intensity. This to me makes this pedal stand out and as a great utility unit as well as an unexpected audio variant in your pedal board. This is only the first step into the unit as the 2nd stage is the tape echo controls: Hangover and Backwash. So we can actually add a warped delay to the LFO effect we shaped, we can control its time and feedback and they also cover two tonal options: On one hand, it could be a pleasant slapback which gives the modulation a sense of space, however it could easily turn into a outlandish oscillator vortex that will make your input signal be completely unrecognizable. And yes, it goes deeper, you have a filter switch for the delay parameters, that would be labeled under as ‘Dregs’, this gives you the option to have piles of the feedback effect be present in your signal or alternatively to tame that and minimize its presence along the rest of the signal. Despite the in depth levels of controls, the pedal is very user friendly and it’s easy to dial in sounds that feel like a great starting point for your sonic voyage. Not too many moments where one knob moves ever so slightly and the signal is completely lost. On the contrary, as I’ve developed my preferences with the unit, it became very easy to dial a more standard chorus/vibrato sound and it was just as easy to turn it into a wave of unexpected sounds. If you’re going for a unique chorus sound, a LoFi warble, a pleasant call back from the 80’s modulation tones, or an all out of control wobble mayhem. This is your boat to that destination.
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