As far as guitar effects pedals go, there’s no shortage of simple stompboxes that distort the instrument’s sound, add a delay or an echo, or other basic modifications. Then there are others that take ...

Musicians have a fantastic language to describe signals. A sound can be fat, dark, crunchy, punchy — the list goes on. These aren’t very technical terms, but they get the job done. After all, it’s ...

BOSS knows a thing or two about effects, so it comes as no surprise that they just released an impressive new guitar and bass multi-effects pedal named the GX-100 (Amazon, Sweetwater). Imagine all ...

Brady Smith and the OBNE team. (Courtesy of Old Blood Noise Endeavors) When Brady Smith started working at Keeley Electronics in the late 2000s, he didn’t realize that he’d form two guitar effects ...

Guitarists sick of fumbling on the floor with their feet for their guitar pedals during performances, might be interested in a unique range called the Puzzle Effects, designed to link together. The ...

“My pedalboard is my paint pallet — my color pallet,” explained Two Tons of Steel guitarist Will Owen Gage. “This is what I’m using to paint my pictures.” Gage and blues guitar hotshot Ruben V are ...

I bought my first tube amp last year, after playing guitar for about 25 years. Before then I’d been completely reliant on solid-state amps and digital models. It was a revelation. And then a few weeks ...

Co-designed by the Muse frontman, designed to go into your amp or direct to desk, and built in partnership with Thorpy FX, the Supermassive Black Fuzz is a lot of pedal – and it ain't cheap ...

Now, the storied British amp, guitar and stompbox brand has expanded its effects arsenal with a quartet of new Valvernergy pedals that double down on the lineup’s gain heritage while also taking it ...

There's more than one way to turn a guitar into a synthesizer. But Boss and Roland have always gone for the most elaborate and complicated approach. While the new SY-1000 can be played simply by ...

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