Vox V863-CA Review

Recently, though, I’ve been in touch with my wah side again—this time by way of JJ Cale’s chilled out swells and Curtis Mayfield’s mellower wah flourishes. And through these applications of treadle-actuated filtering, I’ve rekindled my love for the more psychotic side of the effect. Vox’s V863-CA will happily wind along either the gentle path or the hard road. It has a nuanced filter taper that makes slow, focused sweeps sound sweet and vocal, and it responds to quick-twitch moves with precision. But the real magic in the V863-CA is its combination of envelope generator (auto wah) and envelope follower functions, as well as its ability to switch between wah and the two filtering modes merely by lifting your foot from the treadle.