The most pivotal guitar effect in 1967 was the Vox Clyde McCoy Wah-Wah pedal. Despite having nothing to do with the innovative design of his namesake wah, big-band trumpeter Clyde McCoy became the marketing face of a pedal intended for band and orchestra players because it emulated his “wah-wah” trumpet-mute technique.
However, once guitar superstars like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton popularized this now-famous wah through legendary songs and live performances, Vox quickly shifted the pedal toward guitarists by removing his name, revoicing it and calling it the V846 Vox Wah, and the rest, as they say, is history.
