NAMM 2025: Jim Dunlop has expanded its signature Cry Baby lineup with a new signature wah pedal for the late Mick Ronson, and it reached out to Bob Rock, producer of Metallica’s Black Album, for help.
Ronson is one of the legends of wah, pioneering its use as a filter. He stepped on the treadle, found the sweet spot for his electric guitar tone, and left it there. Et voila, the cocked wah sound, and which as Dunlop notes was “key to the tone-shaping vision that Ronson used to transform the face of popular music through his work with David Bowie and many others as both an artist and a producer”.
