How do I make that sound in the begining of voodo chile by Jimi Hendrix?

Question:Ive always wondered how to make that sound on the guitar. is it extra extortion or is it just a strumming trick?

I have this Amp:
http://www.roland.com/products/en/Micro-...

Unfortunately, I cant find my guitar on the internet. But its a plain black dean, Two knobs, A volume and a tone, Sorta looks like a stratocaster except the headstock looks like an Ibanez headstock, and thats it.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Ive always wondered how to make that sound on the guitar. is it extra extortion or is it just a strumming trick?

I have this Amp:
http://www.roland.com/products/en/Micro-...

Unfortunately, I cant find my guitar on the internet. But its a plain black dean, Two knobs, A volume and a tone, Sorta looks like a stratocaster except the headstock looks like an Ibanez headstock, and thats it.

It's done with a combination of an echoplex tape delay and a wah-wah pedal. A wah-wah is a large footpedal that's basically a drastic tone controller operated by a footpedal - rock back on it and it rolls back all the treble, push forward on it and it cranks the treble up and rolls back the bass. Hendrix is rocking back and forth with the wah-wah to give it that speaking quality. You can hear exactly the same type of effect at the beginning of the theme from 'Shaft', by Isaac Hayes.

Hendrix has a bit of tape delay on the guitar as well, to give it that echoing quality. He has also rolled the volume back on his guitar, and is playing through a Marshall amplifier - when the song starts and the bass kicks in, he turns up teh volume on the guitar with his left hand.

Nobody makes tape echo units anymore, but Line 6 make an expensive but apparently pretty good Delay modeller that enables you to simulate the tone of a tape delay. Roland have also brought up a tape delay modelling unit. You could use a regular digital delay pedal, but it won't sound exactly like Hendrix.

The classic wah-wah pedal is the Cry Baby, made by Jim Dunlop. I have one myself. They rock. They take batteries, but I have owned mine for about eight years and have only had to change the battery once.

It's called a wah pedal. To get that sound, you'd have to get Vox Crybaby wah pedal. Although I'm sure a bunch of half decent knockoffs could save you some money.

It's a Dunlop Crybaby

The Vox wah is a good one though and I wish I had one too!

yea. u need the wah pedal. I have a morley power wah pedal and its great. My brother uses the vox pedal and they sound about the same but the morley is slightly cheaper.