10MM120 Wah-wah

Loved by generations of guitarists, the wah-wah pedal has a voice all of its own. Mark Cousins is speechless...

Getting an instrument to ‘sing’ – that is, playing it in such a way as to mimic at least some of the qualities of the human voice – is an ability that all instrumentalists aspire to achieve. And technology has also been developed specifically to apply vocal-like transformations to sounds – vocoders, talk boxes and formant filters are good examples. Arguably, though, it’s the wah-wah pedal that’s enjoyed the most popularity. So, how does the wah-wah pedal produce its unique tonal effect, which so closely resembles the sound of speech?

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This feature first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 58
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