Here for the sounds? Start at 04:35. Want the whole picture of Jimi's Wah Journey? Then watch entirely, like, comment and leave a super thanks to support my channel 😀00:00-00:41 Intro Jam 00:42-01:36 Introduction 01:37-03:25 The beginnings 03:26-04:34 Jimi's Vox Clyde Wah History 04:35-09:09 Vox Clyde Wah Sound demo 09:10-10:56 How Jimi got his first Wah pedal / First appearance 10:57-12:10 Jimi's Roger Mayer Wah Mods and History 12:11-16:29 Roger Mayer Wah Sound demo 16:30-17:59 Jimi's Woodstock Wah History 18:00-21:18 Woodstock Wah Sound demo 21:19-23:39 Comparing all Models - Sound demo 23:40-24:11 Closing words
You do a fantastic job, an then there are all us ´Klugscheissers´ that knows everything better🙂 I grew up close to the German border, and my first good rig came from Musikhaus Becker in Flensburg. That was a VOX AC30 Top Boost, and almost by accident a VOX Wah and a VOX 2-transistor Tonebender. That must have been around when those effect pedals came out and Becker happened to have a set. The guitar was a Höffner 3 PU Galaxie, because Fender was hard to get by, and I wouldn´t have had the money for it anyways. As I remember those two effects worked quite OK together. That was probably not so interesting for anybody, but here it comes: Many people have made fun of Eric Johnson because he claims to be able to hear the difference in sound in 9v batteries. That sounds like complete nonsense, but it is not. A battery has an impedance (AC resistance) and that is often lower than 1 ohm in a modern battery but up to more than 1Kohms in an old cheap (maybe that is Alcaline) battery. That could easily change the sound. A battery is made almost like a capacitor, so a capacitance effect could come in to play also. Meaning that there could be a frequency dependent effect, but I don´t know if it is the case. Eric Johnson have described the sound difference in Fuzz Faces, but they could exist i Wah pedals also. I don´t know if that could give a more vocal effect. A trick that might work, is to put a 1K resistor in series with the power supply cable, I havn´t tried it yet, but some commercial fuzzes claim to have ´an old battery emulator´. You cannot put a cap in series, because that will block the DC power. Some FF´es like for instance Fulltone have trimpots in the input (placed inside the box), that should help running a Wah into them, I think. But I have also not experimented with that yet.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story and your insides and inspiration 🙏 Great 🔥 I love getting all this input and exchange with people. Fortunately, there’s no right or wrong in art and so I’m cool with everybody’s opinion - I’m learning a lot these days ✌️☮️🎸👏
@renesandoval4043 well... I think about the possibility that it was modified later if its serial number is legit. TDK was introduced when a wah was made in Sepulveda USA.
@@Mold81 I though the same but it is a factory stock. I was very skeptical myself, there are some very rare specimens out there, not many but they do exist.
Thanks a lot 🔥 Indeed, the Red Lion is a very good sounding Wah that proofs again that Roger Mayer knows what he’s building 👍 I think the regular Dunlop signature is just tweaked a bit lower/darker and the rest is marketing ☺️✌️☮️🎸
Thanks for mentioning. As the focus was more on the Wah chronicles I decided to do it without a 2nd perspective. When I do a lesson on the Wah use, I’ll switch the camera perspective - promised ✌️☮️🎸
Thanks a lot ✌️ He also didn’t play his Marshall setup. The Wah looks like a JEN Double Wah and he goes Fuzz before Wah. Probably just tried something completely different or the rental service had nothing else at hand for that tour? 👌🎸☮️
@@MikelBluni There's a couple of pictures and it can be seen clarly that it's the De Armond pedal with its plate in the middle. Yes, maybe his vox was blown and he had to borrow or rent that wah
I think the vintage Vox is closest and most vintage sounding but it also seems noisy. I like and use the wahs by Roger Mayer , my favorite is the Vision because you can easily dial in the frequency peak from a wide range of choices. It also has a Dry/Wet mix knob. I knew Roger when he lived in New York City. He definitely talked about including a buffer in the wah output but don’t know if he ever did that back in the 1960s or not. Here is my version of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) using the Vision Wah. Not trying to reproduce Jimi’s sound but you can hear this Wah, the mix knob brings in some of the dry sound here. czcams.com/video/orox7eidfaw/video.htmlsi=6-0ckTsiU_CrOO1y
I accept the noise in vintage pedals. There’s no compromise for me. I’ve been through so many boutique Wahs and except of Joe Gagan‘s builds, nothing can capture the original feel. The vision Wah is a great Wah, it comes close but I hear something in there that doesn’t belong there - sorry. Voodoo Child SR with a PRS?! Sacrilegious 😛😉✌️☮️🎸
@@MikelBluni agree about the vintage stuff! Well, I’ve been playing for a very long time, something like 47 years! Jimi was my inspiration and has been all along. This is the first time I even dared to play a Hendrix song- I truly thought there was no point in trying to imitate or sound like him so I just did it my way the way I hear it! There should be more Hendrixx on a PRS!
Sabbadius just came out with a Sabbadius SRV 1989 Hybrid fuzz that has an impedance/wah trick knob control which you should look into it. I'm not sure if the wah trick control is a 10K pot but its doing something like the Dave Weyer woodstock wah. Hendrix live at Newport 69 concert when Hendrix wah pedal is COCKED plus his strat tone pots are rolled down he would get jazzhorn tones which you should make a video lesson about. Hendrix used a 3 blade strat switch which he would put the blade switch in between positions to get the tone pots at different pickups. The guitarist from the band Little Feat got his 69 blackstrat which he said the tone pots were wired not stock. I think roger mayer added high pass capacitors to the tone pots so you get a greasebucket tone so its not meant for jazz guitar. Leo Fender made the guitars for jazz type music that is why when you rolled down the tone pots it gets that hollowbody jazz guitar sound which is unusable for rock music that is why Roger Mayer modified hendrix tone pots to be more useable. Clapton uses a passive TBX tone pot which is what Roger Mayer must have put in hendrix guitar or a greasebucket tone circuit.
Thanks for your great input ✌️ Sabbadius generally makes great stuff. My Roger Mayer Axis does the Wah trick extremely well, otherwise you wouldn’t hear the full sweep in my vid, as all sounds are Wah into Fuzz 👍☮️🔥🎸
@@MikelBluni Big Monk Pompeii Fuzz pedal has a Texture control which is a series resistance. This is a built in Dave Weyer mod into the fuzzface. You can use the univibe before the fuzzface rolling down the texture control. Roger Mayer said they used different types of buffers in the studio to do different pedal orders. You should look into these roger mayer studio buffers. Hendrix in the studio used the univibe BEFORE the fuzzface on certain songs you have to find out which ones.
Well I seem to really like your channel so here you have a new sub from Querbec ! Apparently Jimi borrowed Frank Zappa's wah to record Burning the Midnight Lamp so what you hear on the record is Frank's wah.
Hi, Mikel! Happy Sunday! I have a question about Hendrix's wah tone on "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)." Would I need the original Vox wah frequency range, or the Hendrix/Mayer-modified lower frequency range? Would Joe Gagan's Woodstock wah be a good model to try? Thank you for your time and expertise!
Here for the sounds? Start at 04:35. Want the whole picture of Jimi's Wah Journey? Then watch entirely, like, comment and leave a super thanks to support my channel 😀00:00-00:41 Intro Jam
00:42-01:36 Introduction
01:37-03:25 The beginnings
03:26-04:34 Jimi's Vox Clyde Wah History
04:35-09:09 Vox Clyde Wah Sound demo
09:10-10:56 How Jimi got his first Wah pedal / First appearance
10:57-12:10 Jimi's Roger Mayer Wah Mods and History
12:11-16:29 Roger Mayer Wah Sound demo
16:30-17:59 Jimi's Woodstock Wah History
18:00-21:18 Woodstock Wah Sound demo
21:19-23:39 Comparing all Models - Sound demo
23:40-24:11 Closing words
Oh man, I like the late 60's Vox Clyde Wah the best! Great playing, BTW
Thanks for your feedback ✌️🎸
I had an amazing Colour Sound wha wha from 1976 - I now have a Jim Dunlop Jimi Hendrix wha wha pedal
........ Great video.......love your deep dives into Jimi's gear mods.......i believe Zappa bought Jimi his first real Wah pedal too.....
Thanks 🙏 And yeah…Frank seemed to have been The Man in that Wah Wah Case 😉✌️🔥
Mikel you need to procure that borrowed '68 Vox wah PERMANENTLY - right??!! 😃This is another treasured, instant classic video, thank you. 👍
Thanks my friend ✌️ I wish I could keep the 68 Vox, but my buddy will never part with it 😮
Wahtastic!!
Thanks ✌️💯
You do a fantastic job, an then there are all us ´Klugscheissers´ that knows everything better🙂 I grew up close to the German border, and my first good rig came from Musikhaus Becker
in Flensburg. That was a VOX AC30 Top Boost, and almost by accident a VOX Wah and a VOX 2-transistor Tonebender. That must have been around when those effect pedals came out and
Becker happened to have a set. The guitar was a Höffner 3 PU Galaxie, because Fender was hard to get by, and I wouldn´t have had the money for it anyways. As I remember those two effects
worked quite OK together.
That was probably not so interesting for anybody, but here it comes: Many people have made fun of Eric Johnson because he claims to be able to hear the difference in sound in 9v batteries.
That sounds like complete nonsense, but it is not. A battery has an impedance (AC resistance) and that is often lower than 1 ohm in a modern battery but up to more than 1Kohms in an old
cheap (maybe that is Alcaline) battery. That could easily change the sound. A battery is made almost like a capacitor, so a capacitance effect could come in to play also. Meaning that there
could be a frequency dependent effect, but I don´t know if it is the case.
Eric Johnson have described the sound difference in Fuzz Faces, but they could exist i Wah pedals also. I don´t know if that could give a more vocal effect. A trick that might work, is to put a
1K resistor in series with the power supply cable, I havn´t tried it yet, but some commercial fuzzes claim to have ´an old battery emulator´. You cannot put a cap in series, because that will
block the DC power.
Some FF´es like for instance Fulltone have trimpots in the input (placed inside the box), that should help running a Wah into them, I think. But I have also not experimented with that yet.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story and your insides and inspiration 🙏 Great 🔥 I love getting all this input and exchange with people. Fortunately, there’s no right or wrong in art and so I’m cool with everybody’s opinion - I’m learning a lot these days ✌️☮️🎸👏
TDK inductor was introduced in 70s, but woodstock was in 69. So there is a controversy that the tdk was there.
Thanks for your feedback ✌️
Yep, like 1972.
Actually there are round TDK inductor VOX wahs from 69. They do exist, I was a non believer until I came across one
@renesandoval4043 well... I think about the possibility that it was modified later if its serial number is legit. TDK was introduced when a wah was made in Sepulveda USA.
@@Mold81 I though the same but it is a factory stock. I was very skeptical myself, there are some very rare specimens out there, not many but they do exist.
That Red Lion Wah sounds great! I wonder what the current jimi Hendrix crybaby wah is emulating. Love these guids you do man.
Thanks a lot 🔥 Indeed, the Red Lion is a very good sounding Wah that proofs again that Roger Mayer knows what he’s building 👍 I think the regular Dunlop signature is just tweaked a bit lower/darker and the rest is marketing ☺️✌️☮️🎸
@@MikelBluni thank you sir
Wish there was a camera focused in the Wha pedal as you were using it.
Thanks for mentioning. As the focus was more on the Wah chronicles I decided to do it without a 2nd perspective. When I do a lesson on the Wah use, I’ll switch the camera perspective - promised ✌️☮️🎸
@@MikelBluni thank you.
nice work ! thank you !
Thanks for your nice feedback! I’m glad you liked the vid ✌️☮️
Nice video again👍
Thanks a lot ✌️
please make a test with the new VOX - VRM 1 and that late 60s wah from your friend
Hi Mikel. If you google UCLA's Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom on February 13, 1968, you'll see that he used a DeArmond wah that day, I wonder why.
Thanks a lot ✌️ He also didn’t play his Marshall setup. The Wah looks like a JEN Double Wah and he goes Fuzz before Wah. Probably just tried something completely different or the rental service had nothing else at hand for that tour? 👌🎸☮️
@@MikelBluni There's a couple of pictures and it can be seen clarly that it's the De Armond pedal with its plate in the middle. Yes, maybe his vox was blown and he had to borrow or rent that wah
I think the vintage Vox is closest and most vintage sounding but it also seems noisy. I like and use the wahs by Roger Mayer , my favorite is the Vision because you can easily dial in the frequency peak from a wide range of choices. It also has a Dry/Wet mix knob.
I knew Roger when he lived in New York City. He definitely talked about including a buffer in the wah output but don’t know if he ever did that back in the 1960s or not.
Here is my version of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) using the Vision Wah. Not trying to reproduce Jimi’s sound but you can hear this Wah, the mix knob brings in some of the dry sound here.
czcams.com/video/orox7eidfaw/video.htmlsi=6-0ckTsiU_CrOO1y
I accept the noise in vintage pedals. There’s no compromise for me. I’ve been through so many boutique Wahs and except of Joe Gagan‘s builds, nothing can capture the original feel. The vision Wah is a great Wah, it comes close but I hear something in there that doesn’t belong there - sorry. Voodoo Child SR with a PRS?! Sacrilegious 😛😉✌️☮️🎸
@@MikelBluni agree about the vintage stuff!
Well, I’ve been playing for a very long time, something like 47 years! Jimi was my inspiration and has been all along.
This is the first time I even dared to play a Hendrix song- I truly thought there was no point in trying to imitate or sound like him so I just did it my way the way I hear it!
There should be more Hendrixx on a PRS!
Sabbadius just came out with a Sabbadius SRV 1989 Hybrid fuzz that has an impedance/wah trick knob control which you should look into it. I'm not sure if the wah trick control is a 10K pot but its doing something like the Dave Weyer woodstock wah. Hendrix live at Newport 69 concert when Hendrix wah pedal is COCKED plus his strat tone pots are rolled down he would get jazzhorn tones which you should make a video lesson about. Hendrix used a 3 blade strat switch which he would put the blade switch in between positions to get the tone pots at different pickups. The guitarist from the band Little Feat got his 69 blackstrat which he said the tone pots were wired not stock. I think roger mayer added high pass capacitors to the tone pots so you get a greasebucket tone so its not meant for jazz guitar. Leo Fender made the guitars for jazz type music that is why when you rolled down the tone pots it gets that hollowbody jazz guitar sound which is unusable for rock music that is why Roger Mayer modified hendrix tone pots to be more useable. Clapton uses a passive TBX tone pot which is what Roger Mayer must have put in hendrix guitar or a greasebucket tone circuit.
Thanks for your great input ✌️ Sabbadius generally makes great stuff. My Roger Mayer Axis does the Wah trick extremely well, otherwise you wouldn’t hear the full sweep in my vid, as all sounds are Wah into Fuzz 👍☮️🔥🎸
@@MikelBluni Big Monk Pompeii Fuzz pedal has a Texture control which is a series resistance. This is a built in Dave Weyer mod into the fuzzface. You can use the univibe before the fuzzface rolling down the texture control. Roger Mayer said they used different types of buffers in the studio to do different pedal orders. You should look into these roger mayer studio buffers. Hendrix in the studio used the univibe BEFORE the fuzzface on certain songs you have to find out which ones.
Well I seem to really like your channel so here you have a new sub from Querbec !
Apparently Jimi borrowed Frank Zappa's wah to record Burning the Midnight Lamp so what you hear on the record is Frank's wah.
Thanks for sharing that inside ✌️ Welcome to my channel - great to have you here 🎸🤩👍
@@MikelBluni Here to stay ! 😊
Hi. What amp are you using? Thanks
Marshall 50w Plexi - 1987x
Hi, Mikel! Happy Sunday! I have a question about Hendrix's wah tone on "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)."
Would I need the original Vox wah frequency range, or the Hendrix/Mayer-modified lower frequency range? Would Joe Gagan's Woodstock wah be a good model to try?
Thank you for your time and expertise!
Hey where can I get that Mod kit?
Unfortunately, the kit is no longer available, but you might get one used 🙂
No wha sound like those italian 60s whas
Good that you avoid nasty distortion
Thanks 🙏