Pedals: Product Reviews, Ratings and Buying Guides

They say that you can make happy mistakes and discover something wonderful in them. However, your pedalboard is not one of those things you can afford to make mistakes with. You can either buy a premium model or learn how to build a pedalboard yourself if you want to give your guitar that exciting range of powerful ...

A volume pedal is relatively simple – it increases the output of your guitar when you press down, and decreases your sound when you let up. But that basic function is essential if you want to have complete control over the dynamics of your sound. We reviewed tens of volume pedals and narrowed them down to our ...

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 ...

Phaser pedals were invented to sound like rotating organ speakers, but players soon found they were capable of a lot more. Their filters can change the frequency of a note and able to create soft sweeping sounds. The psychedelic sounds are perfect for ballads, reggae, and funk but can be used in many other types of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...