Acoustic players looking to augment the natural sound of their guitars with live effects may well have to succumb to a world of cables, amps and stomps to do so. Ofer and Helene Webman out of Phoenix, ...

Best of 2022: Effects pedals are many guitarist’s most treasured playthings. But, the right software selections can not only imitate, but exceed such pedal-based effects When you purchase through ...

In country music, effects aren’t thought of as the focal point of the tone. If 90% of it comes from the playing, then 4% is from the guitar, 4% is from the amp, and the last 2% comes from the pedals.

Back in the 1980s I played guitar. Yes, I’m that old. I learned from books and by playing along with CDs, and I jacked my Charvel guitar (awesome) into a Session guitar amp (terrible), and I never ...

The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.

All electric guitar players know that the amplifier is just as important — if not more — as the guitar itself for shaping your sound. Each major amplifier model has unique dynamics and tonal ...

The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...

According to many musicians, in order to have the best sound possible, an acoustic guitar has to be made from the "right" type of wood. Unfortunately, such wood often comes from endangered, ...

This sound effects circuit is designed to work as a signal distorter. If used with an electric guitar, it allows the production of special sound effects. The signal distorsion is done by substracting ...