Guitarists love to commit to their tone. We spend hours agonizing over the perfect overdrive pedal, debating the merits of analog delays, and dialing in our amplifier EQ until the room shakes just right. As a part of that ritual, a compressor pedal is often clicked on and left on. It squashes the raw signal,
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Guelph, Ontario. Pedal Book, a new iOS app for guitarists who use analog effects pedals, is now available on the App Store. The app lets players build a digital copy of each pedal they own, match its controls to their real settings, and save the result as a tone. Analog pedals have no built in
Thinking of taking up the guitar? Looking for reliable, great-sounding gear to get you through your first gigs? Here are my 10 recommendation to get you started, without breaking the bank! Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s Let’s cover electric guitars first, and if it’s LP-style solid body you’re after, the Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s
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Part 5 of my Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout series. Review of the ProCo Rat 2. Meeting a Legend. I won’t bore you with the background of this shootout, for that please refer to the other parts in the series on this site. I’d now been through the clone phase, and so far in my quest
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The idea of transitioning from acoustic guitar to electric can be daunting. Sure, you’ve got the technique down, the chords and the strumming patterns and the scales, but what do to do with all those knobs and cables? Fear not, the evolution need not be intimidating or difficult. All it takes is a bit of time learning
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Turn the Knobs, Spark the Songs Every songwriter has experienced writer’s block at least a couple of times in their lives. But what if your reverb or delay pedal could help you break that creative block or shape the feel of your next track? Guitar pedals aren’t just for tone: they are powerful songwriting and
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The centuries-old argument among guitarists over whether to employ modern or vintage electric guitar parts continues to shape their unique tones. Some prefer the precision and originality of contemporary materials, while others prefer their forebears’ classic warmth and rich tones. Regardless, which one do you think works best with your voice? Yes, we should investigate
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Review of the Zoom G6 Guitar Multi-Effects processor….. … or rather a demonstration of how bad the UI experience is. Enough for me to send it back. I’ve always loved Zoom products, from way back to the 505 through to the G3. The OD/Distortion and amp modeling beat anything by Line 6 in my book,
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In-depth review of the Donner Dumbal Drive Analog Overdrive Guitar Pedal. It’s been a while since I looked at stand-alone pedals, the last time being an overdrive pedal shootout followed by a period of happily plodding along with my BOSS Katana and ME-80 multi-fx. Lately, I’ve come back round to the idea of valve amps,
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