Have you ever heard “Livin’ On A Prayer” by Bon Jovi? Or maybe, their other hit “It’s My Life”, or the solo of Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart”, or maybe “Show Me The Way” of Peter Frampton? If you’re wondering why I’m making these questions, or what do they even have in common, the answer … Leggi tutto
What electric guitar’s pedals are considered modulations? In the huge area of different types of effects, recognising a specific sound and fit each one into a specific category can be a great help in understanding better how the final sound of your electric guitar is actually made. For this reason, in this article we’ll see … Leggi tutto
Getting the right guitar tone is essential to playing in any genre, especially metal. The high-gain, distorted sound sets metal tones apart from other music genres. From Black Sabbath to Metallica, metal tones have evolved over time. Whatever metal sound you are going for, getting the proper distortion or overdrive pedal can help you get … Leggi tutto
Technical and utility pedals can be quite challenging for a guitar player: it’s not like distortions, modulations or delays, that you can always hear clearly and understand how they work with their settings and also when turning their knobs and footswitches. If you own compressors, Equalizers or noise gates/suppressors you can find quite hard to … Leggi tutto
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
