Guitar Pedals
Warm Audio has been heartily lauded for its ability to produce outboard gear and studio microphones that deliver high-end tone akin to popular classics at an ultra-competitive price point, so its entry into the realm of stompbox-style guitar effects with the Foxy Tone Box and the Jet Phaser starts a tantalizing new chapter, not only for the company
Geddy Lee is one of rock’s most legendary and Canadian bass players, with a tone that can’t be beat. But then again, there’s that old saying—if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: now, with the Geddy Lee GED-2112 Signature SansAmp, you can do just that; you can take one step closer to his tone. This pedal successfully distills racks upon racks of Lee’s gear into a simple stompbox form factor.
The pedal takes the same approach as its rackmount processor and offers two preamps in one housing. One’s called Drive, and the other is called Deep. Drive is
Lugging around one VOX amp, much less eleven, would be a hellish enterprise for guitar players in the olden days. So it’s a good thing VOX is releasing the Cambridge 50, a tube-powered modeling amp that gives you eleven classic VOX tones in a single combo-amp housing—a housing that weighs fewer than 20 lb! Combine this relatively lightweight VOX Cambridge 50 with the company’s
From rock, to blues, to metal, the electric guitar has many faces. While there are many factors that go into guitar tone, the creative use of distortion to mold the sound of your instrument is undeniably one of the boldest tonal statements you can make as a guitarist.
While the focus of this article is on classic distortion pedals, it’s important to note that the practice of distorting, or overdriving the sound of the electric guitar, predates the advent of the distortion pedal. Described by some as a “happy accident,” blues guitarists first
Zoom made the AC-3 Acoustic Creator to create the authentic sound of your acoustic guitar or bass from the humble origins of your instrument’s direct output. If you play on stage or in a studio ensemble, you know the frustrations of using microphones to reproduce your sound. The cantankerous bleed and feedback that so easily result are a plague to the pristine tone you desire. Yes, DI boxes neatly skip around those issues, but very few people
Forty years ago, BOSS issued some truly classic guitar pedals. Forty years later, three of them have been reissued in near-faithful reproductions. The prefix of “near” here has been deployed to signify improvement, not imperfection: where the company has enacted enhancements, it has been to improve functionality, not tone; their legendary sound remains wholly unaffected.
Before we go any further, let’s examine the three pedals: first