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July 08, 2010

By Robert Renman - www.dolphinstreet.com

Best Wah Pedal

What is the best wah pedal on the market? Wah-wah pedals seem to never fall out of fashion. It is one of the first effects many guitar players end up buying, and there is doubt that Jimi Hendrix is a big reason for this.

A wah pedal is for sure a fun effect to have around. You can always find a way to fit in some whacka-whacka in a song! It's also a very expressive effect, if you learn how to use it well (hint: Jimi Hendrix...) and you can play both rhythm and lead playing with a wah pedal.

I have tried many, many wah pedals over the years. I have had Fulltone, Morley, Dunlop, etc, and I have also tested a large number of wah pedals in guitar stores.

I'm going to list some of the best wah pedals you can find. First though, here are a couple of video demos I did a while back. I really liked the EVH Wah, and the Clyde Deluxe is a pretty classic sounding wah too.

With a Michal Kelly Patriot Humbucker guitar

With a Suhr Classic

Which one is best? My personal choice is the Dunlop Original Crybaby Wah Pedal. Maybe that comes as a surprise - it is quite inexpensive compared to the boutique wah pedals. Well, the reason simple is - I like how it sounds, how it interacts with gain pedals, and the tone it produces. I have found that I prefer a shorter sweep on the wah pedal, because I don't have to move my foot up and down as much. As a result, I find it is easier to use the wah pedal - I just move my foot a little bit up and down, in order to create the type of wah effect I need. The Original Crybaby is the one to get!

Let me know which wah pedals you think belong on this list - just a comment here below. Also, have a look at the list of best fuzz pedals, best overdrive pedals and best distortion pedals.

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By Robert Renman - www.dolphinstreet.com

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Posted by Robert Renman on July 08, 2010

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Comments on this blog entry

Zach said...

I have the Morley Mark Tremonti Wah and it blows the Crybaby off the water!

Comment added on July 05, 2011
Csaba said...

Just got an Artec APW7 Wish Wah. Besides the somewhat wacky feeling it seems to be a pretty versatile pedal: you can change the sweep range with one knob while the other one changes the voicing. And there is a switch too to switch to bass mode to use the pedal with bass guitars.

Comment added on July 09, 2010

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