first 70's VOX WAH-WAH V846 Made in Italy Nice conditions with
Red Fasel and Orig Cover All working well
The JEN produced Vox V846 Wah-Wah was frequently equipped with a red Fasel
inductor (shown at right). Vox wah pedals from JEN also featured white piping
around the base of the pedal, similar to the white piping used around the grill
panels of Vox amplifiers. In addition to adding a signature Vox styling cue,
this piping provided additional clearance for the Fasel inductor to prevent it
from striking the base plate. JEN Vox Wah-Wah and Crybaby pedals featured the
original patented two transistor Thomas Organ/Vox circuit design. While many JEN
Vox wah pedals were equipped with a Fasel inductor, some featured a metal "trash
can" inductor. Vox V846 and Crybaby wah pedals produced by JEN typically do not
have serial numbers embossed on their base plates.
The wah wah is one of the best known electric guitar effects in the world, made
known by the late Jimi Hendrix who illustrated its potential in “Voodoo Child (Slight
Return)” and in Woodstock. Yet the pedal was born almost error as a means to
exploit the fame of the Beatles. As Motherboard explains, it was the result of a
combination of two different things: the Vox Continental organ and the Vox Super
Beatle Guitar Amp, which were "merged" into a new, cheaper and affordable
instrument, an amp. for guitar equipped with a pedal borrowed from the organ,
able to modulate the expression of the instrument.
Its inventor Brad Plunkett initially thought that the pedal could be useful to
saxophonists but it was Vox that bet everything on the guitar, at that time in
great ascent thanks to the new lever of post-Beatles guitar band. Starting in
1967, thanks to the flowering of the psychedelic movement, Eric Clapton and Jimi
Hendrix learned to take full advantage of it - with often different styles -
filling their riffs and solos with wah wah. Just a year later the pedal had
already become a must and in that year the legend was born according to which
guitarist Earl Hooker invented it. In reality, this is not the case, as we have
seen, but his knowledge of the gadget and the complicit title he gave to one of
his songs ("Wah Wah Blues") contributed to the spread of this version of the
story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9X_5c3VmU