"The World's Biggest Pedal Board" appeared on Facebook Dec. 30, courtesy of ex-Cult/Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. Taking a page from Dave Grohl's tome, Matt Sorum's Fierce Joy ...
Guitar tone shit? Not for long. Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil has just announced a new distortion pedal, made in partnership with his guitar tech Richard ‘Churd’ Pratt, who has his own pedal outfit, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...
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 ...
The TightDrive from Amptweaker allows guitar and bass players to take control of that all important tone and overcome any unwanted delay that can slow down the sound as it moves through an amp's ...
CROSSWALK CAME FROM TWO STUDENTS THERE. ED: FROM SOME OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ROCK BANDS TO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL BUSINESS THEY MANY HAVE STARTED IN A GARAGE. MARIA: ONE LOCAL COMPANY THAT’S ...