Vibrato is one of the key ways that musicians add expression and bring their sound to life. It adds character and personality to your playing and, if done right, can give notes a vocal quality that can’t be matched. To do this, of course, you’ll need a vibrato pedal. To put together this review, we looked at ...

Bass octave pedals, a type of guitar effect pedals, are designed to produce a tone that is one octave above or below the original tone. Many modern octave pedals give an even wider tone range, generating a tone that's either two or three octaves higher or lower than the tone you're playing. The best bass octave pedals ...

The wah-wah effect is a hallmark of the electric guitar sound. This distorted sound is normally produced by a manual foot pedal, which puts the guitarist in complete control over when and to what degree the wah effect is applied. But when you want to apply distortion faster than the human foot can react to your guitar ...

It is only natural that you will want your guitar to stand out from the rest of the instruments of your band with a clean boost. To do that, you need to find the best boost pedal. While other types of pedals can take the limelight, the boost pedal is an underrated star. Adding more power to the signal without any ...

Are you looking for something to elevate and enhance the sounds and riffs from your guitar? Then look no further because you can achieve that with the best whammy pedal! Many guitarists are always on the prowl to find ways to alter the sounds of their riffs. What many famous musicians and bands have figured out, ...

Octave pedals can allow you to layer rich, bright tones or deep bass sounds into your guitar, bass and even keyboard signal. While these effects have a somewhat limited set of uses, they can make all the difference to your sound when you really want to stand out. In order to help you find the best octaver pedal ...

For a person who is learning guitar or is already proficient with it, a tremolo pedal serves the purpose of adding sheen to the learning process. If you have a music piece and you want to add waves, chops, linear rises, purrs to it, then a tremolo pedal proves to be useful. A decent tremolo pedal would allow you to ...

Guitars can create a range of beautiful sounds that can really get a crowd going. But there are also a number of different effects that can help amplify and enhance these awesome sounds. One of these effects is the fuzz pedal. Made popular by rock legend, Jimi Hendrix, the fuzz pedal is a distortion that is commonly ...

Whether you have aspirations of being your generation’s Eric Clapton or enjoy gigging with your band, humming, squealing, and other noises can compromise your sound. Fortunately, a noise gate pedal can provide a great solution for these issues. Noise gate pedals are designed to eliminate the noises beyond a specified ...

Musicians are always looking for exploring new musical sounds to experiment and make the music they create more vibrant and creative. In the last fifty years, effects pedals have been increasingly used as a way of musicians manually controlling the effects through their feet. Pedals are most commonly used by ...