They use knobs and footswitches to apply any number of alterations to the guitar’s sound, from echo and distortion to reverb and pitch-shifting. Pedals aren’t just for guitars, either.

The Misfits have teamed up with Distortion ... overdrive pedal to celebrate 40 years of the band’s seminal Earth AD album. The idea is that the Earth AD 40th Anniversary Edition gives you everything ...

As a youth, [David Hilowitz] couldn’t afford a loud aggressive amp, a distortion pedal, or even a proper electric guitar. This experience ended up teaching him that you can use random old audio ...

This is when you use multiple pedals that add gain to your signal ... to greatly change the character of the amp’s distortion. Third, the timbre of the compression can be very distinctive, leading to ...

With this in mind, we've curated a collection of the coolest Social Distortion fan art available on ... do you call a talkative guitar effect? A Social Distortion Pedal! We crack ourselves up.

The guitar in John Snyder ... Snyder started building pedals in 2015 to solve a problem for the band he played in. None of the distortion-creating units he could find gave him enough control.

This is an extremely powerful tool for chords and lead work and if you had to have only one distortion ... for any guitar style from pop to metal and I like getting three pedals in one.