Ask a non-musician to name an effects box and they will probably say ‘wah-wah’; ask a musician to name a wah-wah and they’ll all say ‘Cry Baby’. Made famous initially by the great Jimi Hendrix in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vox/Thomas Organ developed the first commercial wah pedal almost by mistake when engineer Brad Plunkett designed a variable ...

On top of any other guitar effect, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is known for his love of the wah-wah pedal. The rocker's frequent use of wah eventually led to the design of his own signature wah ...

METALLICA's Kirk Hammett discussed his long-professed love of the wah-wah pedal in a recent interview with Guitar World, telling the magazine: "The wah enables me to mirror the inner voice in my head ...

The wah-wah pedal. It’s the foot-stomping device guitarists used to add the signature spice, a taste of toe-tapping funk or cosmic psychedelic noodling, to a host of classics beginning in the 1960s.