The wah pedal has been responsible for some truly iconic moments in electric guitar; that 'talking' sound you've heard from players including Jimi Hendrix and Richie Sambora on classic songs. Listen ...

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 ...

The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...

The humble wah-wah pedal is probably one of the most underappreciated effects in the electric guitar universe. Vox/Thomas Organ developed the first commercial wah pedal almost by mistake when engineer ...

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 ...

"The World's Biggest Pedal Board" appeared on Facebook Dec. 30, courtesy of ex-Cult/Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. Taking a page from Dave Grohl's tome, Matt Sorum's Fierce Joy ...