Electro-harmonix has just released a $220 guitar pedal that evokes the sound of the B-series Hammond organ. I was tipped off by my programmer consultant buddy Gil Garcia, who I met when we both worked ...

Nothing can bad can happen to your iPad down there on a stage floor. Nothing. Photo: IK Multimedia Electric guitar players have effects pedals. It’s an addiction, and a law of nature. We keep buying ...

The worst thing about being in a rock band is waiting for the guitarist to set up and adjust—and re-adjust, and then re-re-adjust—his interminable collection of effects boxes and pedals. But now ...

IK Multimedia has drawn key tone-shaping features from its mighty Axe I/O instrument interface and put them into the Z-Tone Buffer Boost preamp pedal for gigging and Z-Tone DI active box for studio ...

Native Instruments on Tuesday released Guitar Rig 1.2. The new version of the developer’s digital guitar studio adds four new stomp boxes — the fuzz pedals Fuzz Ace and Big Fuzz and the distortion ...

The electronics I used in this project consist of: 1 Mono Audio Jack (1/4") 1 Piezoelectric Transducer 1 Potentiometer (must use one with a 5 Meg Ohm rating or better) Other parts and tools required: ...

Emulating the tones of iconic guitars is not exactly new, we've seen a number of amps, instruments and apps giving players access to legendary sounds without having to swap guitars. Italy's Sim1 is ...

[Brian McNamara] fed the output of his guitar pedal back into its input creating a looped synthesizer. He started with an effects pedal he made but now we think he’s ended up with an electronic stomp ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. StompBox Band is a new iPad app that turns your tablet into not one but two guitar effect racks.

Digitech has dropped the price of the iStomp, its popular iOS device programmable effects pedal, to only £49. And in more good news for fans of affordable effects, as well as making the pedals ...

Polyend is a company that takes hardware very seriously. Its stable of innovative products delivers a focused selection of music-making devices including Synth, a pad-based multi-engine polysynth with ...