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, ...

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 ...

After distortion the wah-wah pedal, for many, is the second most preferred pedal for guitarists. From rock to funk and other genres in between, the wah-wah offers a tremendous amount of tonal variety ...