Kirk Hammett Looks to Dimebag Darrell When Choosing a Wah Pedal

On prime of every other guitar impact, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is understood for his love of the wah-wah pedal. The rocker’s frequent use of wah ultimately led to the design of his personal signature wah pedal with the guitar merchandise firm Dunlop, the KH95 Kirk Hammett Signature Cry Baby Wah Pedal.

But in a new interview, Hammett revealed that he primarily chooses one other artist’s signature wah pedal first when it comes to studio recording — the late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell’s DB01B Dimebag Cry Baby From Hell Wah.

That’s what the Metallica shredder advised Rick Beato in a video that emerged this week (Aug. 17). Watch it down towards the underside of this put up.

Kirk + the Wah Pedal

While discussing his ongoing “addiction” to all issues wah, together with his assortment of Vox Clyde McCoy wah pedals, Hammett was requested if there’s only one “magic” wah he nonetheless prefers over others.

“There is one, and I only have one of them, and I break it out every single time I go into the studio, and it’s the Dimebag wah,” the rocker responds.

“I love Dimebag,” he provides. “I loved him as a guy; I loved him as a person; I loved him as a player. To this day, I have a lot of emotions towards him.”

The Dimebag Wah Pedal

Hammett continues, highlighting the Dime wah’s 6-way frequency vary selector and devoted enhance change, “[Dimebag Darrell] made a wah with this pickup selector, where you can toggle through all the various things, and it’s the greatest idea. And on top of that, there’s a boost [function].”

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Indeed, it is these distinctive options that appear to drive the Metallica guitarist to need to select Dime’s wah over his personal within the studio. In reality, Hammett needed to duplicate the options for his signature mannequin when the time got here, however he abstained.

“When I was looking at this wah, I thought, ‘This is the wah that I should’ve made,” he explains. “And when Dunlop said, ‘Let’s put out your version of the wah,’ I wanted to copy it. But I didn’t out of respect for Dimebag. But that’s the wah for me — it’s the Dimebag wah. It’s the greatest wah, for me, that’s ever been fucking made.”

Watch at 1:19:15 beneath.