We didn’t really expect that a guitar distortion pedal would lead down the rabbit hole to diode theory and digital signal processing, but we’re glad it did.

From tone-tailoring to buying what’s rightfor you, here’s our guideto putting more of what counts onyour ’board ...

We break the glass on the pedal cabinet to dig out a long-list of some of the coolest effects from the new Golden Era of ...

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.

Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario calls the Axentrix A1 “an eye-catching design loaded with tons of distortion tones,” and that’s an understatement. The pedal adds in an extra selectable drive mode ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.