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 ...

This Jack White collab collects high-gain distortion, phaser and echo in one $100 unit. It's big on value, but how does it ...

If you've spent your whole life wondering how the heck Led Zeppelin got that crunchy fuzz tone on "Black Dog," you're in the right place.

Alternatively: Put after reverb, or stack multiple delay and reverb pedals in series for huge ambient tones. The general rule ...

From Jimi Hendrix to Merzbow, artist-made music with distortion has become increasingly widespread over the past half-century ...

The facility at United Recording includes Paul’s original equipment, such as the first-ever multitrack Ampex tape machine and ...

The methodology involved assessing sound effects, such as distortion, chorus, flanger, wah-wah, and delay, applied to the original signal, captured from an electric guitar and analyzed in MATLAB to ...

Zappa began seriously exploring a still relatively new technology: guitar ... effect by introducing audio clipping through digitally manipulated sound waves, effectively mimicking the distortion ...

Way back in the dark ages of the late ’60s, the music industry experienced a sudden explosion of fuzz pedals that popped up on the market like mushrooms on cow dung after a spring rain.

Unlike distortion pedals ... The wah pedal was invented in 1966 when guitar effects were becoming mainstream, and it was quickly adopted by the guitar heroes of the day, including Jimi Hendrix ...