BY CHRISTOPHER SCAPELLITI
June 22, 2016


Converse has unveiled the final version of a new Chuck Taylor sneaker with something special built into it just for guitarists.

Dubbed the All Wah, the sneaker features a built-in wah pedal. Yes, you read that right.

A prototype of the shoe first appeared in 2013, and now the finished product is here.



Designed and developed by Cute Circuit, the All Wah uses microsensor technology to track the flex of the sole, then communicates via Bluetooth with the included Wah Box. It works with an amp and can also be connected to a Mac or iPhone.

The video below shows the prototype, which features a different connection scheme from the finished version. In the second video, Dinosaur Jr guitarist J Mascis tests out the All Wah.

Source: http://www.guitarplayer.com/effects/1018/new-converse-all-wah-sneaker-has-a-built-in-wah-pedal/58573

 

Next: you will control you LFOs with your personal vibrator.
Its Bluetooth, it spikes and it substitute the mod wheel.... Look: no hands mom!

 

just what I need , 2 cables strapped to my foot on stage,,, clever but not really functional for a live setting

 

Really neat idea even if I would trip over shit all the time! Chuck Taylor's though, seriously?

 

"My Wah smells funny"
Presumably "built from the ground up" by the folks who brought you the chocolate Crash helmet.
Now, from head to toe, you too can be a disaster waiting to happen.
another one of those solutions to a problem that never existed.
It's a funny old world, though. in't it just.

 

It's wireless. That photo is just a fictional demonstration.