Let's be honest, $385 is a lot of money for any pedal. But session legend Michael Landau and high-end Tokyo brand Vemuram carry a lot of weight in guitar circles so their Butter Machine distortion ...

Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario calls the Axentrix A1 “an eye-catching design loaded with tons of distortion tones,” and that’s an understatement. The pedal adds in an extra selectable drive mode ...

The reputation of AmpliTube 5 carries a lot of weight, so when IK Multimedia announced a series of four X-Gear effects pedals using its modelling power, they automatically became one of 2021's key ...

This project details the design and study of an analog circuit that produces a signal distortion effect from scratch. Such effects are widely used in the music industry with electric guitars. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's a Boss pedal. Guitar gear can be pretty expensive. Throw in the fact that whatever the piece of gear is might be a collectible and forget it – the price is going through the roof. Which is ...

For an age, the distortion pedal has been a fixture of popular music, ubiquitous in rock, metal, and pop. Legends such as Tony Iommi, Eddie Van Halen and Kurt Cobain have risen partially thanks to ...