Do you want your guitar to sound like farts instead of, you know, a guitar? Well, you're in luck. Musician and sound tinkerer Steve Gadlin has created The Fart Pedal, an unprecedented guitar effects ...

This one's for guitarists who enjoy messing with tones, but spend way too much time trying to lock in the perfect sound. Groundhog Audio claims its tech can match the tone from any song and drop it ...

The guitar in John Snyder’s lap is wired through a nondescript aluminum box covered in an array of knobs and switches. As Snyder manipulates them, the tone coming from his amp warbles in otherworldly ...

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Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500 th attempt at the main riff from “Black Sunshine” I got frustrated. I was playing the right notes, but it ...

From fuzz to reverb, guitar pedals are more than effects—they’re extensions of your playing personality. Whether you’re a ...

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is letting musicians go carte blanche with his famous guitar tone's secret sauce. In introducing his new signature guitar effects unit, the MXR Dookie Drive pedal, the ...

Among serious electric guitar players and collectors, a few bits of gear stand out as holy grail acquisitions: Good examples of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar, or amplifiers built by Howard ...

Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal to help shape their instrument's tone, boost its dynamics or sonic capabilities, or perform practical duties to ensure they always ...

EarthQuaker Devices and high-end guitar amp specialist Dr Z have put their heads together on a tube-driven preamp pedal that might be the missing ingredient in your electric guitar tone, the analogue ...

Musicians, it seems, have always wanted to alter the sounds of their instruments. Over the course of centuries, strings have been added to guitars for a fuller sound. The composition of those strings ...