The Wah-Wah Pedal-Mankind's gift to the universe?

[ZoCrowes]

The wah-wah pedal, in the right hands, is mankind's greatest contribution to the universe.

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. I disagree. The Big Muff is the only path to salvation.

[ZoCrowes]

7. Russian or american

Mmmmmmmmm american made tube distortion

[democracyindanger]

2. The TalkBox, in Peter Frampton's hands, is the greatest contribution.

[elehhhhna]

4. Dave Grohl can work that thang too.

[democracyindanger]

5. which song?

curious.

[elehhhhna]

15. Generator. Unless I'm confused--he uses that mouth pipe to the

guitar thing. Is that a talkbox?

[ZoCrowes]

24. Yep

thats a talk box

[elehhhhna]

27. OMG I got a music thing right? Wow!

Generator is a very bouncy, throwback kind of thing--and when I hear that talkbox I'm transported back to HS & "Frampton Comes Alive".

[ZoCrowes]

8. BLASPHEMER!!

Humble Pie goooooood

Talk Box Frampton is the DEVIL!!

[democracyindanger]

10. woo woo weel wike wee woo?

[ZoCrowes]

11. NOOOOOOOOOO

the pain

[xmas74]

3. I called my brother. He says yes!

[Floogeldy]

6. Gotta go with echo and reverb instead

Although the wah-wah is really cool

P.S. Don't ever use a wah-wah with your hands. ;)

[ZoCrowes]

9. Echo and reverb are nice

But nothing beats a wah. Especially a good Vox Wah with a true bypass

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Nope. The distortion pedal, then the flanger

[ZoCrowes]

13. distortion pedals are the lame

Its all about the natural overdrive of the amp. Tube based overdrive pedals are ok though

but it is alllllllll about the wah wah

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. It's all about the Chorus, and the equalizer

[no name no slogan]

17. Stereo chorus + Stereo ping-pong delay + Reverb == heaven

Make that guitar sound like an orchestra, son. I've been doing it for over a decade, and haven't looked back.

[Telly Savalas]

16. Hell yeah it is.

Not just for guitars either. While playing with Miles Davis in the late 60's/early 70's, Chick Corea would sometimes run his electric piano through a wah pedal. He'd make some pretty evil sounds with the thing.

My personal favorite is this album.

[ZoCrowes]

21. Actually

Wahs were originally used for organs and then guitarists discovered them.

[two gun sid]

18. Chorus and reverb...

are my favorites.

[northzax]

19. I agree. and in the spirit of brotherhood

I propose we box them all up and send them out into the universe to spread the gospel to other planets.

The collection crew will be by on thursday.

[ZoCrowes]

22. But...but...but

I just got a shiny new Vox one! You can have my POS Dunlop Hendrix Wah

[northzax]

25. sorry, but you don't want to annoy our potential alien overlords do you?

I say we give them everything in advance. That's a sacrifice I think we should all be willing to make for the sake of peace in our solar system.

[ZoCrowes]

26. But it's so shiny

and makes my guitar sound like a duckie!

[brentspeak]

20. Whatever it was that Pete Townsend used for "The Relay"

Sounds like a cross between a wah-wah and a talk-box. (I've always heard that riff as though the guitar was saying "pinball, pinball").

[ZoCrowes]

23. Pete used an envelop filter quite a bit

which is what a wah is but it's in a fixed position instead of using the pedal to manipulate the filter