Wah pedals produce the best guitar tone.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be able to tell what effects are being used on keyboard. This is about guitar though. I’m just an intermediate guitarist so I’m sure someone else with more knowledge of music could comment on that.

ETA: Obviously this is just an opinion on what I’ve heard since “paying attention” to music. I like the wavering sounds I hear from guitarists using the effect.

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ETA: I know it has a strong connection to psychedelic rock, but I wish it had been used and expanded beyond that in “popular” music.

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Kirk Hammett would like a word.

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Wish it didn’t have such a short peak

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ISWYDT.

Pro Tip -- reverse the input and output, mess with the tone knob, and you can make the whale sounds from Pink Floyd's Echoes. Or so I'm told, I never got it to work.

Wah is great when used sparingly. I prefer the Crybaby sweep to the Vox but it's all personal taste.

I think wah is excellent for solos, but unless you’re playing funk, it’s not really an always on effect. I often times use phaser instead of wah for solos just to save space and weight on my board.

Crybaby and Vox examples are cool, but if you want to really expand the wah pallet, check out Geoffrey Teese's variety of wahs. I have an old RMC2 ("Real McCoy Custom," as in Clyde McCoy) I've had forever now. It has not only a killer tone but knobs to control boost when engaged; the sweep/range of the effect (narrow to wide); and the "Q" point within the treadle sweep, to put the "schwa" of the tone towards the front of your rocking, the back of your rocking, wherever it feels best to your foot.



And my auto-wah/envelope filter of choice is a Boss T-Wah from 1982. Their version of a hard to find and very expensive MXR classic.

That RMC2 sounds a lot like the Dunlop 535Q I have, probably not nearly as nice though

hard to go wrong with a phase 90. It just gets the job done

J Mascis(Dinosaur Jr) says hi.

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