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.

Wampler Pedals and Brent Mason have unveiled the latest version of the session ace’s signature overdrive and distortion pedal, ReWired. A two-channel monster, designed to create all of the master ...

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 ...

Lari Basilio has joined the likes of Madison Cunningham and Paul Gilbert as a JHS Pedals signature artist, and her pedal, Violet, is an overdrive/distortion pedal with more than meets the eye. Violet ...

Read the first article in this series: Pedal effect circuit design: Getting started. Low-power, tube-like pedal effects can now be yours with a simple JFET circuit. The LSK489, in a common-source ...

Guitarists will do just about anything to get just the right sound out of their setup, including purposely introducing all manner of distortion into the signal. It seems counter-intuitive, but it ...

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 ...

Switchable pre/post EQ direct out - get the right tone for your amp and the room High headroom input and output level controls for distortion-free signal 3-band EQ section with sweepable midrange ...

Kurt Ballou, music producer and guitarist for the celebrated metal band Converge, made his business card a distortion pedal. The card is a printed circuit board that can be used to build a working ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to ...