In these blog posts you'll get back-to-back comparisons of similar pedals and neat tricks and tips for getting the most out of your gear. Each post will have some sort of interactive demo widget because sound says more than any of my ramblings.
Wondering which Orange bass amp to buy? Here's how the Crush Bass 25 and 50, Little Bass Thing, Terror Bass, ...
Blues Driver BD-2W or Plumes? The BD-2W runs from edge of breakup all the way into fuzzy territory on one ...
BD-2W or Morning Glory V4? The BOSS runs from clean boost to almost-fuzz through a JFET gain stage, the JHS ...
BD-2W or Sugar Drive? The BOSS Blues Driver sweeps from clean boost all the way into fuzzy territory, while the ...
Catalinbread SFT vs Crazy Tube Circuits Falcon: the SFT is an Ampeg voice with an actively sculpting Baxandall EQ and ...
SFT or Blumes for bass? The SFT is an Ampeg-voiced amp-in-a-box with an active Baxandall EQ, the Blumes is a ...
SFT vs Colour Box for bass: the Catalinbread SFT is a JFET Ampeg preamp with four knobs, the JHS Colour ...
Blumes or Colour Box V2 for bass? The Blumes is a bass-voiced overdrive with three clipping modes, the Colour Box ...
Plumes or Sugar Drive? The Plumes gives you three genuinely different clipping voices and more headroom, the Sugar Drive gives ...
Shallow Water or Julia V2? The Shallow Water swaps the LFO for a randomized modulator that never repeats itself, while ...
Shallow Water or Polychrome? The Shallow Water builds its whole circuit around random modulation and reacts to how hard you ...
Unpleasant Surprise or Fuzz Factory? Both reach gated, chaotic fuzz, but one gets there from two knobs and three toggles ...
Morning Glory or Sugar Drive? The JHS is a Bluesbreaker with a bass cut that carves through a mix, the ...
Colour Box V2 or M81 for bass? One is a Neve console preamp that goes from clean DI to genuine ...
Fuzz Bender or Alpha Haunt? Both are gated fuzzes with real EQ on board, but one is a hybrid Tone ...
Fuzz Bender or Fuzz Factory? Both reach velcro territory, but the Fuzz Bender gets there through an active EQ and ...
Classic 108 Fuzz or Timmy? One is a silicon Fuzz Face doing extreme clipping, the other a cut-only transparent overdrive ...
Julia V2 or Polychrome? The Julia is Walrus Audio's analog chorus and vibrato, the Polychrome is their analog flanger with ...
Two ZVEX fuzzes that behave nothing alike: the Fuzz Factory is germanium, gated and genuinely chaotic, the Mastotron is silicon ...
Mastotron or Woolly Mammoth for bass? Both are ZVEX fuzzes with real low end, but the Mammoth gates hard through ...
Wondering whether to get the Plumes or the Morning Glory V4? The Plumes stays open and full where the Morning ...
Wondering which Orange Terror amp to buy? Here's how the Dual Terror, Dark Terror, Rocker 15 Terror, Baby Terror and ...
Eight innovative pedals that transform your guitar into an ambient and experimental soundscape machine. From reverse delays and octave shifters ...
Discover budget-friendly guitar pedals that punch above their price point. From the classic BOSS DS-1 to the versatile Walrus Audio ...
Discover the essential guitar pedals that define stoner rock, from classic Big Muff fuzz to QOTSA-approved overdrives. Complete guide with ...
Master the cinematic guitar tones of Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and This Will Destroy You with ...
Master the dreamy, lo-fi guitar tones of Mac DeMarco, Clairo, and Rex Orange County with this complete guide to bedroom ...
A shootout of the best bass overdrive pedals. I love using guitar pedals on bass and experimenting with finding the ...
In the world of guitar pedals and sound design, thre is often confusion about the terms overdrive, distortion and fuzz. ...
A series of Big Muff reissues that pretty much covers all the highlights of EHX's history of Big Muffs. And ...
A shootout of the best bass distortion pedals. I love using guitar pedals on bass and experimenting with finding the ...
A shootout of 7 of the best Harmonic Percolator pedals on the market. The EHX Percolator, Champion Leccy The Divvy ...
A shootout of 11 different velcro fuzz pedals. The Fairfield Circuitry Unpleasant Surprise, Walrus Audio Eons, Old Blood Noise Endeavors ...
How to sound like Touché Amoré's "Flowers and You" with the right pedals. The verse features cleanish, spacious and modulated ...
A shootout of five different transparent overdrive pedals. The Bondi Effects Sick As MkIII, Plain Speak Calamity Drive, Electric Love ...
How to set up a shoegaze pedalboard. Shoegazers use effects pedals in unconventional ways to create beautiful noise rock. In ...
Five essential all-in-one shoegaze pedals that create instant walls of dreamy, distorted sound. From legendary reverb circuits to innovative distortion-delay ...
Four killer Plexi/Marshall-style distortion pedals that deliver authentic British crunch and roar. From boutique amp-in-a-box circuits to versatile grunge machines, ...
How to get a great bass tone with the Strymon Iridium and OwnHammer IRs. The Iridium is a great tool ...
A shootout of six different Big Muff-style fuzz pedals. The Electro Harmonix Big Muff PI USA, JPTR FX Warlow, MAE ...
A shootout of four different delay pedals. The BOSS DM-2w, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte, Crazy Tube Circuits TI:ME and NativeAudio ...
A shootout of multiple modulation effects. Phasers, choruses, vibratos and flangers compared side-to-side. The Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water, NativeAudio Midnight, ...
A shootout of multiple overdrive pedals. TubeScreamer, Blues Driver, Morning Glory and many more compared side-to-side. The SS/BS Mini, BOSS ...
A shootout of four different amp in a box pedals. The Catalinbread SFT, JHS Pedals Twin Twelve V2, Alexander Pedals ...