The Stone Temple Pilots guitar icon explains how he stumbles upon songs, why nothing’s quite like a Telecaster, and how his ...

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers axeman has had a long history with the Boss DS-1 and its sibling, the DS-2. A quick glance at his ...

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During a break in class, Ronnie Knight doodled on a piece of paper. He was taking a University of North Alabama business management night course the company he worked for at the time paid for. That ...

Susan Alcorn, Voyager on Pedal Steel Guitar, Dies at 71 With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent.

His early pedal modifications — Ross compressors, Ibanez Tube Screamers, the Electro Harmonix Small Clone — got some traction in the guitar community.

A longtime guitarist with a doctorate in electrical engineering, John Snyder started building pedals in 2015 to solve a problem for the band he played in. Now, his company Electronic Audio ...

Few effects pedals in recent memory have created more buzz than the Mercury X from the audio wizards at Meris, which has built its reputation making high-end guitar pedals.

What is a guitar effects pedal and how do they work? Otherwise referred to as signal processors, effects pedals are capable of manipulating the audio produced by the guitar in a number of ways.

Schenectady-based guitar-effects pedal company Poison Noises has grown since its 2020 inception to include national acts, but maintains strong local involvement ...