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Matt Parker

Impressed by that double Whammy pedal footage? Jennifer Batten did it first

Jennifer Batten – one of the first guitarists to experiment with two Whammy pedals

Guitar Instagram has been alight in recent months with footage of Sean Long’s innovative double-whammy technique – a dual-footed approach that uses two Whammy pedals at once to serve up some epic pitch-shifted tones.

However, as we mentioned in our coverage of Long’s excellent clips, he’s not the first guitarist to experiment with the possibilities of using two Whammy pedals simultaneously. That honor (as far as we can tell, anyway) belongs to Jennifer Batten, the virtuoso who at various points was Michael Jackson and Jeff Beck’s go-to guitarist.

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