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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.

Most guitar players get very excited at the prospect of new guitar effects pedals. And rightly so! It doesn’t matter if you’re buying your first pedal, or your 101st, the excitement still exists and ...

When you buy through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hey there, fellow music lover! Are you on a quest for the best reverb pedals to add that extra magic to your guitar sound? Well, ...

Music producer Cohen Hartman pushed past burnout to create a psychedelic, pedal-packed album recorded with more than 80 ...

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 ...

So do we really need one amp sim package? Neural DSP thinks we do, because the Finnish company just dropped a major new ...

I bought my first tube amp last year, after playing guitar for about 25 years. Before then I’d been completely reliant on solid-state amps and digital models. It was a revelation. And then a few weeks ...

Although I grew up surrounded by the big hair rock of Bon Jovi and the like, my first introduction to the Talk Box guitar effect was not Living on a Prayer but Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way over a ...

An occasional look at Connecticut’s remarkable people, places and things Among serious electric guitar players and collectors, a few bits of gear stand out as holy grail acquisitions: Good examples of ...