“To me, the wah-wah is a lot like the human voice. It isn’t so much about the ‘wah-wah' sound, it’s being able to manipulate the tone however I feel it in that moment," said Hammett in an interview ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett recently explained that he doesn't use the wah pedal when writing his guitar solos, something he said is true of his solos from the songs on the band's 1991 "Black Album," the ...

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, ...