A good pedalboard doesn’t change your tone on its own, but it does change how often you actually plug in and play. The right board keeps your overdrive, delay and friends wired up, powered and ready, instead of living in a tangle of cables on the floor. The wrong board is heavy, awkward and half…
Fuzz is the wildest side of guitar gain – from vintage, splatty breakup to huge walls of sustain. It can be a subtle, woolly push on top of an amp or a full-on smashed speaker sound. But with every box claiming to be the best fuzz pedal “from classic rock to doom”, it’s hard to…
Overdrive is the glue between clean and full-on distortion. It can be a light always-on tone shaper, a crunchy rhythm sound or a boost that makes your amp roar. But when every box claims to be the best overdrive pedal “from blues to metal”, it’s hard to know what you actually need if you mostly…
Distortion is the sound that made most of us want an electric guitar in the first place – but once you open a shop page, every box claims to be the best distortion pedal for “everything from blues to metal”. If your amp already has a gain channel, do you really need another pedal, or…
Reverb is one of those effects everyone says you “need” – until you open a shop page, see endless options, and realise your amp already has a reverb knob. Do you really need a dedicated box, or will any good reverb pedal do the job for home practice and small gigs? I’m in the same…
Best Delay Pedals for Guitar: 7 Picks from Budget to Ambient Picture this: it’s late, your amp is at “don’t-wake-anyone” volume, and you finally kick on a delay sound. It either vanishes in the mix or turns everything to mush. You open a few tabs to fix it and get buried in endless lists, boutique…
Picture this: you finally grab an amp modeler, dial in a tone you love on headphones, then plug it into your little combo and everything suddenly sounds smaller and duller. That’s usually when people start talking about getting an FRFR guitar cabinet instead of using a normal amp. Some players swear it’s the only way…
You keep hearing about guitar amp modeler units, but you’re not sure if you really need one. Your small practice amp “kind of” works, plugins look cheaper, and every YouTuber seems to be using a different box. I’m in the same position as most readers here: I play mostly at home, and for this site…
If you’ve ever tried to pick your first gain pedal and ended up with ten tabs open about overdrive, distortion and fuzz, you’re not alone. They all add drive and sustain, but the way they react under your fingers can be completely different at home volume. This guide breaks down overdrive vs distortion vs fuzz…
If you’ve ever stepped on a delay, added a bit of reverb, and thought “why does this sound messy instead of big?”, this guide is for you. We’ll keep it focused on real home rigs and small boards, not studio-only tricks. Here you’ll learn how to place your delay and reverb pedal in the chain,…