Champion Leccy the Woozy V2

The Champion Leccy the Woozy V2 is a lo-fi modulation pedal that, in the maker's words, "covers a lot of ground": chorus, vibrato, spangly sounds, square wave pitch shifting laser, and what Champion Leccy describes as "haunting reverb/ warped tape delay weirdness"¹. It can function as a straightforward chorus, a vibrato, or a full lo-fi modulation unit, and it carries a built-in echo section alongside the modulation. Delicious Audio, which covered the original Woozy in July 2022, described it as "a tap tempo modulation pedal with a built-in echo" and added it to its article about the best lo-fi pedals².

The V2 keeps the same sound as the original but improves things under the hood, including a quieter PCB¹. Champion Leccy says of the update: "For the V2 Woozy we squeezed out the last few percent we could from the design"³. Every Champion Leccy pedal is designed, built and tested in a South Philly rowhome¹.

What it does to your sound

The Woozy sits in the lo-fi corner of modulation. Rather than a clean, hi-fi chorus, it aims at analog tape artifacts and degraded, wobbly textures; Delicious Audio's lo-fi pedals roundup groups it with pedals chasing that tape-and-vinyl character⁴. Within that palette it spans several effects: conventional chorus and vibrato at the tame end, square wave pitch shifting at the extreme end, and a reverb/warped tape delay section that Champion Leccy describes as producing "haunting" weirdness¹. The echo section also includes a signal fattening "doubler" effect, which the maker says goes "all the way to craziness that is hard to tame but fun as all get out"⁵.

A comparison table on Champion Leccy's site lists the Woozy V2's functions alongside its siblings the Skitzy, Skitter V2 and Swan Hunter. The Woozy V2's column includes the LFO, a Belton brick reverb, ducking/gating, tremolo on the dry signal, tremolo on the reverb, tape sounds, resonant echo, an FX loop, tap tempo, and one wet signal path⁶.

The controls: cheer, dregs and LFO

The Woozy's control set is small, and each control does a lot of work.

The cheer knob is the dry/wet blend. On the original Woozy, Delicious Audio explained it plainly: "blends your dry signal with your effected signal. Fully clockwise is all wet and no dry, turn anticlockwise to blend more dry signal into the mix"². On the V2 it has been redesigned with what the maker calls "a true 100% dry/ wet blend"¹, so the knob now reaches fully dry as well as fully wet.

The dregs switch is the character control. Champion Leccy describes the Woozy V2's range as covering "chorus, vibrato, spangly sounds, square wave pitch shifting laser and haunting reverb/ warped tape delay weirdness"¹, and the dregs switch is how you push the pedal between those territories.

Champion Leccy's own description of the pedal's modulation range¹

In the V2 the switch gained an extra position over the original, giving one more ambiance setting³.

The LFO is the heart of the pedal. Champion Leccy says it has "tons of usable range, LOTS of waveforms/ramps and small changes to the shape of oscillations yield wildly different results"⁵. On the original Woozy this was the Tide knob, which Delicious Audio described as making "your modulations slow and elegant or frantic and sci-fi"². The Woozy uses the same Electric Druid LFO as Champion Leccy's Kilter and Skitter, with the modulation indicator LED placed next to the tap tempo footswitch⁸. Tap tempo lets you set the modulation speed in time with the music rather than by ear alone.

Power and practicalities

The Woozy V2 takes a standard BOSS style +9V center negative power supply, which is not supplied with the pedal¹.

Current draw is 60 mA¹, modest enough for most isolated pedalboard supplies. The maker's product page lists dimensions as N/A¹.

Where it came from

The original Woozy launched as a lo-fi modulation pedal covering the same territory, with the Love, Tide and Cheer controls described above⁷. Delicious Audio covered it on 15 July 2022, documenting its controls and effect range, and included it in its roundup of the best lo-fi pedals². The V2 followed with the same sound but a quieter PCB, the redesigned cheer knob with a true 100% dry/wet blend, and the extra dregs switch position¹³.

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