Most of us are aware of harmonic nodes. You get the strongest one at the 12th fret, which is exactly halfway along the string length. There’s one at the 5th, which is a quarter length and another at ...

So you want to build guitar effects pedals? Well, one place to start might be at the hardware store, stocking up on the soldering iron, reverse-action tweezers, a multimeter and perhaps a solder pump ...

As well splitting a guitar input over three separate fuzz pots, the variable frequency control and resonance switch of Fairfield Circuitry’s new Four Eyes Crossover Fuzz pedal help make it one ...

We may be in the golden era of guitar fuzz pedals, where the past and present innovations combine to give us devices with options and range never before thought achievable. Boss, an industry leader ...

MXR has announced the release of the M306 Poly Blue, an expanded version of the iconic Blue Box octave/fuzz pedal used by Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin’s Fool In The Rain. Where the original Blue Box ...

The story behind the fuzz pedal’s creation is well known to most guitarists, but it goes a little something like this. The effect was born on July 12, 1960, while country superstar Marty Robbins was ...

You may remember that Ty Segall collaborated with the noisemakers at Death by Audio (the pedal company, not the Williamsburg venue, though they’re related) to create the (now sold out) Sunshine Reverb ...

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