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.

If you're playing rock guitar, chances are that at some point you're going to want to use overdrive or distortion effects. Saturated, gnarly guitar tones are synonymous with rock music, and every ...

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 ...

RECORDING WEEK 2024: They’re a stubborn old lot, guitarists. Though we live in a world where a salvo of superb software can ...

Music making is increasingly digitized here in 2020, but some analog audio effects are still very difficult to reproduce in this way. One of those effects is the kind of screeching guitar distortion ...