Touring musicians are embracing modelers as a cost-effective way to maximize their sounds. Touring musicians are embracing modelers as a cost-effective way to maximize their sounds. Around 2009 ...

Unlike distortion pedals, overdrive replicates the sound of a fully-cranked — or "overdriven" — tube amp. Think of the guitar tone on The Kinks' "You Really Got Me." In doing so, they are not ...

There's even one guitar pedal that's used primarily as ... "One day, I Googled Kurt Cobain's distortion pedal, and some random person on the internet said it was a RAT," he tells Exclaim!

There are also holy grails in the world of effects pedals — the devices that can radically change the sound of any guitar rig by adding echoes, howls, snarls, whooshes and whirls with a stomp of ...

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.

Whether you’re a regular shredder or you’re just beginning to explore the world of electric guitar ... pedals on the market. Keep scrolling to keep jamming. This value-for-money, portable ...

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.

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.

Over two sessions, participants will go from a schematic and a pile of components to a fully functional, gig-ready, guitar distortion pedal based on the design made famous by Jimi Hendrix.