"It’s probably not a coincidence that effects such as wah pedals and fuzz boxes started appearing en masse about the same time that recreational drugs like marijuana and LSD became popular with rock musicians.
Indeed, it would take the mind of an incredibly stoned individual — someone deprived of exposure to the sun’s rays, fed a diet of lukewarm Mountain Dew and stale frozen pizza and kept awake for days by snorting lines of Instant Maxwell House — to even conceive of the idea for some of the music industry’s many audio oddities."
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Which is one of my favourite effects. Never losing my qtron, which is pretty weird sounding - I use it in 'underwater' mode - which is a backwards, bass centric sound. Weird!
Ye gods.
I understood the Wah came about as people wanted to make a guitar sound like a muted trumpet, which has a kinda wah-wah sound.......
BTW I've never taken LSD, never intend too, and still love having a pile of F/X available to me.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)