as well classics from the company's older rack mount units like the SP2016 Reverb. Headlining the new effects is probably Polyphonic Pitch Shifting, which uses Eventide’s SIFT (Spectral ...

The world of guitar effects is weird. It’s a place where ... processor that tries to cram the complexity and richness of a rack-mount unit into something small enough to fit on a pedalboard.

We are living through another golden age of guitar effects ... It's based on the classic 1980s SDE-3000 rack mount unit and features the warm and smooth sound found in the 16-bit original.

Guitar effects and other musical circuits are a great introduction to electronics. There’s a reason for this: with audio circuits you’re dealing with analog signals and not just the ones and ...

Also known as stompboxes due to the way they’re controlled, guitar pedals are miniature effects units that are often placed on the ground. They use knobs and footswitches to apply any number of ...

But what does the popular vote for best new guitar effects pedal tell us about how guitar playing habits? What does it say for us as players, and how our tastes in tones has evolved over a year? You ...

Guitar effects have come a long way from the jangly, unaltered sounds of the 1950s when rock and roll started picking up steam. Starting in large part with [Jimi Hendrix] in the 60s, the number of ...

It's tender. It's raw. It's the Maestro Fuzz-Tone. You have to hear this completely different sound effect for the guitar to believe it!" "If you're Keith Richards and you're doing 'Satisfaction ...