The WTF from Loud Button Electronics brings together high gain distortion and a low frequency oscillator (LFO) in one effects pedal. The result is somewhat difficult to explain but a number of ...

If your guitar needs more distortion, lower audio fidelity, or another musical effect, you can always shell out some money to get a dedicated piece of hardware. For a less conventional route, though, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Distorted guitars were a big part of the rock revolution last century; we try to forget about the roll. As a youth, [David Hilowitz] couldn’t afford a loud aggressive amp, a distortion pedal, or even ...

A study demonstrates that digital simulations of guitar amplifiers can sound just like the real thing. The implications are that as the software models continue to improve, they can replace ...

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 ...