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Go With the Flow: Using Proper Signal Flow to Minimize Noise and Maximize Tone
We take it for granted. Plug the guitar in, the signal goes into the pedals, then into an amp. We rock out, the audience screams, and we realize how happy playing music makes us. We make it seem easy...
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What is MIDI and How Can I Use It?
Anyone reading through the specs of an effects processor or has ever bought a keyboard has seen the word MIDI. What is this crazy thing, and will it make my guitar sound like an 8-bit Atari game? Am I...
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The Ins & Outs Of Effects Loops
If you’ve been a guitarist for more than five minutes, you’re pretty familiar with effects. Effects can morph our plain guitar sound into something from outer space or just make it seem a little...
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The Pickup Booster
The Pickup Booster is everything a Booster should be but also contains some innovative features that interact directly with your pickups to allow you to explore new sounds. It provides you a way to...
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Feed Your Frankenstein: Ten Halloween Sounds You Can Make With Your Guitar
Halloween: aka Christmas for Rock’n’Rollers and other misfits. It’s the only day of the year when dressing like a zombie vampire pirate is socially accepted by your boss and neighbors. Aside from trick...
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Guitarists Using Seymour Duncan Pedals
It’s only been a year since the Dirty Deed distortion pedal came out, and since then it has been followed by the Vapor Trail, 805 Overdrive, Pickup Booster and now the Shape Shifter. In that time...
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Effects Basics: Chorus
You’ve heard that sound before: that watery, bubbly, thick guitar sound slathered over almost every clean guitar part from the late 1970’s throughout the 1980’s. That is the sound of a chorus effect,...
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