The level of skill, talent, and mastery of an instrument are all primary concerns that help define an artist. However, another crucial facet in establishing identity is having a unique sound.

There’s nothing quite like stepping on a pedal and hearing the gritty growl of heavy distortion. Deforming your guitar signal to the point that it screams back at you is incredibly satisfying so ...

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 ...

When you buy through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If your goal is to build out a versatile effects pedalboard, one of the most basic and useful pedals you're going to want to pick ...

In the first part of this series we discussed pedal effect circuit design and in the second part we looked at a distortion pedal circuit with low power and soft clipping. Now we will discuss a rather ...