Noise gates and noise suppressors help you getting rid of unwanted noises but in different ways: a gate basically works and stop sounds as soon as you stop playing (during “silence times”), while a suppressor works both while playing and when you stop picking. It’s important for musicians, recording engineers and producers to understand that … Leggi tutto
/This article contains affiliate links that may earn us a commission for every purchase made throught these links at no extra costs for you) Loop pedals are a great way to create music: you can play live and record loops of your performance, and they are very popular in the studio as well for recording … Leggi tutto
(continues from loop pedals introduction guide) Nowadays everybody has a smartphone, and everybody know that they’ve become some kind of multi-tasking tool for a lot of our daily tasks. But what about music? How can you use them beyond tabs and tuners/metronomes? Actually, as a guitarist, you can use your mobile phone for recording your … Leggi tutto
(This article contains affiliate links that can make us earn a small commision with every purchase without any additional cost for you) >>>continuing from the general guide for looper pedals Finding the right guitar pedal in between the huge (and I really mean HUGE) variety of effects stompboxes can be challenging, and that is true … Leggi tutto
Have you ever heard a guitarist playing alone but sounding like a whole band or a bunch of guitarists all into one single person? If you’ve already been in this situation you probably (well, in th majority of cases) heard a guitarist using a looper pedal (also called loop pedals or loop stations), that can … Leggi tutto
St. Vincent (aka Annie Clarke) is well known for her huge and majestic fuzzy guitar tones as well as the extremely different sounds that she manage to get from her pedalboard. But how can you get that tone? In this article we’ll see which are the pedals that can make you sound like the “Los … Leggi tutto
Where should you put your noise gate pedal? This is a very common question when you first buy one of these pedals, and because a different position in the signal chain can greatly change the overall sound of your rig it can be difficult to know where to place one of those stompboxes. How can … Leggi tutto
(This article contains affiliate links that can make us earn a small commission for every purchase without extra costs for you) Are you willing to buy a new guitar tuner? If you’re looking for a new model, then you’ll probably stumbled upon pedals with a price near or beyond 100$: despite their very high reliability … Leggi tutto
How many time did it happen to you? You feel somehow unfulfilled with your pedalboard and you simply feel like adding another stompbox to your own collection, but at the same time you don’t want to actually go to the store and begin a long journey between shelves and store areas for your new pedal … Leggi tutto
If you’re searching some pedals that can help you achieve a djent guitar tone, then you have to take 2 (and eventually 3, if you need more customisation) pedals: a distortion/overdrive and a noise gate, and the optional one is an Equalisation pedal. In this article you’ll see some models for each of these 3 … Leggi tutto
