The Hotone Soul Press II – Wah, Volume, and Expression Made Easy!
This is a full review of the Hotone Soul Press II (2) Pedal. This is a mid-sized wah, volume, and express pedal designed for guitarists.
Official site – https://www.hotoneaudio.com/
Amazon – https://amzn.to/3tlgYw0
The Hotone Soul Press 2 can be used as a dedicated wah pedal and sounds very familiar to the legendary Dunlop Wah. The Soul Press II can also be used as a dedicated volume pedal that allows you to sweep and swell the volume with ease. Thirdly, the Soulpress can be used with a multi-effects pedal or any rack unit amplifier simulation that requires an expression pedal. The build quality on the Hotone Soul Press II is fantastic and a massive thank you to Hotone for sending this out for this review and for sponsoring this video.
0:00 – About & Disclaimer (Sponsored)
0:22 – Jam Track
2:31 – Hotone Soul Press II Overview
4:47 – Volume Mode
6:52 – Wah Pedal Mode (classic mode)
7:49 – Wah Pedal (warm mode)
8:36 – Clean Wah Pedal “Q Frequency”
10:43 – Always-on Mode (Wah & Volume)
11:32 – My Hotone Soulpress II Review
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Originally posted by UC-oSaKCCEffJph0F7m6_xfA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJ62QjPwSo
Why didn’t you use demo the expression pedal
No. The range of the wah effect gets narrower or wider with the side potentiometer. The Q position never changes.
It seems like the volume is consistent when switching from clean to wah setting? I really like that. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Do not buy anything from hotone. They went out of business due to using low quality pots and circuits in their pedals. I bought a qah volume pedal that sounded like crap out of the box. Then it just stopped doing anything after 2 weeks.
I've had this for about a year and when using the wah it's extremely noisy (like a dirty pot) unfortunately the pot isn't reachable and I can find any help to fix the issue. The volume works tho
I think its pronounced hot one.
It’s not „hot tone”
no expression?
Thanks
For those who have this pedal, this can support 9V battery thru a compartment at the bottom, the smaller cover with 2 screw holes. There are also options to turn on/off LED by using a switch(beside the battery compartment), which are: On LED for VOL only, On LED For All Modes and OFF for All Modes. I use the On LED for Volume only because sometimes i cannot identify if it is VOL or Wah when in live situations where i can barely hear myself. The Blue and Green on indicators are on the right side of the pedal which I can barely see. Overall good freakin' pedal
Hi anyone knows how to fix the 20% volume jump, its hard to do smooth swells with this?
Does the expression function still affects the pedal you linked when you engage the wah mode?
Is it true bypass?
Is it digital?
Its digital or analog?
Hi, thanks for the video, is it possible to use the pedal just as an expression pedal? like a roland ev-5 for delay purposes on el capistan v2.
Can this be used without the ampero pedals? Sorry if it's a silly question.
Can you pls tell which one better or difference between this and Hotone Press 2?
Thanks for your review Shane. I like the pedal and would actually use it as an expression pedal (which I believe can be used passively, without power) for either my Strymon Flint or my Strymon DIG (v2). Now I've read online that strymon likes to see expression pedals with 25k pots and that 10k pots might not work that well. Do you know if this one has a 25 (or more) or the 10k pot in it?
I’ve always loved the classic, “throaty” sounding wah tones, à la Cream’s “White Room”, or Hendrix on Voodoo Child (Slight Return). I believe they used the Vox pedals.
I’ve never owned one of them myself, but I have played on them before. I started with a basic CryBaby, and then I had a really nice Morley Volume/Wah pedal that used the old plane dashboard lights for the optical sensor/shutter system. I loved that pedal and really regret parting with it.
I’m currently using a Behringer Hell-Babe, and while it sounds good, in practice I hate it, lol. My interest was piqued when I saw that it was basically a ripoff of the Crybaby From Hell, but at a fraction of what it costs for one of them these days, and from what I hear they unfortunately weren’t made to last. Lots of ppl reporting problems with those little side knobs.
On paper, the HB seems like it should be the one for all occasions (almost all, save for one detail). I really liked that it used an optical system just like my Morley had, there was a built in boost, and you could use the knobs to customize the tone to sound like any type of wah you want it to. What could go wrong, right? It sounds perfect. Another feature which grabbed my attention was its buttonless, motion activation.
That’s where we run into the first few problems. Now, except for not being able to play stuff with the wah “cocked” (just leaving it turned on in a certain position while playing but not using the foot-pedal, it’s basically as more of a convenient signal boost and/or EQ modulation, when needed) because if you stop using it for more than like 2 seconds it automatically switches back to “bypass”, and for certain songs that I play, not being able to do that is a big prob, (yes, I’ve tried the compressor/solo boost on my Boss ME-70, and even the boost on the wah itself to emulate it but the tone just isn’t the same and the one on the wah only works when the effect is on???????? plus when you do it with the pedal cocked, it’s nice to be able to just start using the wah on the fly, and I just realized that doing that also essentially makes buttonless activation pointless anyway because it’s already always on, lol!????).
The final problem with it, is how it’s calibrated. The “default” position of the expression pedal on basically every wah pedal I’ve ever used was toe-down. Yeah, I’ve seen used some Morleys and Zoom pedals where it felt like the sweep was reversed, but with the Hell-Babe it has a spring that keeps it in the toe-up/heel-back position for the default. I’ve always been used to pushing down forward first to turn it on (or stepping on the side switch if it’s a Morley), and THEN pulling back to start the first sweep. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely saves time if your playing live and need to break right into a wah part and don’t want to tap dance to get to it, but it just feels like “backwards” and unintuitive to me . I’m also not saying that it’s necessarily a bad pedal either, rather that it just isn’t the best solution that’s suited for my needs/style of playing. Someone who doesn’t do all that stuff and has a more straightforward approach would probably be able to use it as their main “go-to” pedal, but as you can probably guess, seeing as how I’m in the comments section of a wah pedal review video, I’ve decided that it’s time to find something new that can fill that role. The main purpose of a second expression pedal is because even though the ME-70 has the multi-function pedal that includes wah, the problem is that if I want to use it as a whammy/pitch pedal, or delay rate control, etc. I have to pick one and pretty much am stuck with that for the rest of the song since it’s a pain on the ass to try and bend down to change settings while trying to play at the same time, unless you’re lucky and the song has a few rests or sections with breaks/less playing. So if I want to use both a pitch shift effect and then wah later on in the same song, it makes sense to just have a separate dedicated pedal for it. The volume feature is also a nice bonus since I can always use one with the other pedal on, since the default on the Boss is volume when it’s switch is off, and hey if I ever need both on at the same time I can just roll the knob on the guitar itself anyway.
PS- one last thing I’ll mention before I end this impromptu essay about my views on wah pedal features and functionality, is that based on some things I’ve read recently about Behringer pedals as a whole and how they do bypass, caused me to stop using it for the time being because I’m fairly certain that it was partly responsible for some of the signal issues I’d been having, which are already bad enough as it is since I’m using a vintage Peavey Stereo Chorus 212, which badly needs a “tune-up”, as it were. I know there’s a lot of Behringer-haters out there, and so I dunno for sure if it was truly 100% to blame for it. I mean, it’s possible a shoddy patch cord, improper adapter or any other number of things could’ve also contributed, and to be even more fair ti them, I didn’t read super deeply into the forum discussion that mentioned the bypass issues, but at the same time though, for what it’s worth, once I went back to just the multi-effect pedal straight from the guitar into the amp with nothing else in between, the problem did go away.
If I end up buying this pedal, I’ll reply to myself and leave a review of it.
Thank you, but what about the expression demo? That's an incomplete review ????
Anyone looking at the new Hotone Wong Press, this pedal is the exact same thing with very insignificant changes. the Wong Press has a $199 price tag vs. the $119 price tag for the Soul Press 2. I found a deal on a Soul Press 2 on Reverb for $100.
Old review but caught my. While watching and agreeing on his favorite settings I went back to my studio and pealed mine off my pedalboard to check and you betcha…….classic setting "Q" at 2 o'clock. ????
Be nice ta have another option, where the Wah & Volume run At The Same Time!
is it made of plastic or metal?
I've been lookin' for this. And I've been hummin in it my head or when no ones around. Thank you for the sound test, sound test is the most important. Thanks.