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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 ...

In country music, effects aren’t thought of as the focal point of the tone. If 90% of it comes from the playing, then 4% is from the guitar, 4% is from the amp, and the last 2% comes from the pedals.

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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 ...

“When I was in second grade, my parents gave me one of those little kits you get for kids to learn about electricity,” Zack Vex explains as he leads me through his office in a suburban Minneapolis ...

Musicians have a fantastic language to describe signals. A sound can be fat, dark, crunchy, punchy — the list goes on. These aren’t very technical terms, but they get the job done. After all, it’s ...