Popularized by Hendrix and Clapton, resplendent on some of guitar's greatest tracks, the wah pedal might divide opinion, but ...

In late October 1965, Vox designer Dick Denney visited the Thomas Organ Company, who distributed Vox in the US, to advise on the design of a new line of US manufactured solid-state amplifiers. One of ...

Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500 th attempt at the main riff from “Black Sunshine” I got frustrated. I was playing the right notes, but it ...

A version of this piece orginally appeared on The Week. Jimi Hendrix making his guitar "talk." Peter Tarnoff/Retna Ltd./Corbis The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, ...

Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal to help shape their instrument's tone, boost its dynamics or sonic capabilities, or perform practical duties to ensure they always ...

Kirk Hammett and the wah pedal go together like… well, Kirk Hammett and the wah pedal. The two things have been synonymous for as long as any metalhead can remember, so much so that even Kirk is in on ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett recently explained that he doesn't use the wah pedal when writing his guitar solos, something he said is true of his solos from the songs on the band's 1991 "Black Album," the ...

Here’s a guitar wah-wah pedal that [Christian Munk] built. Inside you’ll find a circuit board that he etched and populated based on this design but he chose to build the housing out of LEGO. The video ...

Kirk Hammett has been getting flak for his use of a wah pedal for decades at this point, and it's finally gotten to him! Hammett has now announced he's giving up the pedal in favor of… nothing. We're ...

WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) --Converse unveiled a sneaker with a built in guitar pedal to allow musicians to keep a piece of equipment with them at all times. The "Chuck Taylor All Wah," developed by ...