Loopy Demos

If there is a specific tone that I crave for my personal setup, it's velcro fuzz. What is velcro fuzz? It's hard to describe and one of…

Touché Amoré's "Flowers and You" is a great example of a song that excels in two specific tones that guitarists Clayton Stevens and Nick…

We've heard it all before: transparent overdrive, clean boost, amp-like overdrive, clean drive. But what does it all mean? Let's find out!…

Shoegazers use effects pedals in unconventional ways to create beautiful noise rock. In the demo widget above I've put together a small…

Shoegaze is a music genre that's all about creating beautiful but aggressive walls of sound. It should make you wanna close your eyes…

Classic rock guitar tone is almost synonymous with the sound of a cranked Marshall® Plexi. Unfortunately, cranking a Plexi is not always an…

I love using guitar pedals on bass and experimenting with finding the "magic sauce" for a great, gnarly, distorted bass tone. Often, when…

I recently got my first bass, a JMJ Mustang Bass. I needed to find a decent sound for recording bass without breaking the bank. I was…

I love Big Muffs. Whenever I hear a band with a fat or sustaining guitar tone that I like, it's very likely that the guitarist is using…

I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of delays at hand and I compared them. From simple to highly adjustable, there is a pedal that…

In this shootout, I'm providing some side-to-side comparisons between multiple types of modulation effects. There are phasers, choruses…

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a TubeScreamer, a Klon, a Bluesbreaker or any other overdrive? This is the shootout…

Amp in a box pedals are great for when you want the sound of a pushed amp, but can't really push a real amp. They are also a very nice…