While many players are happy to invest in multiple overdrive reverb and delay pedals, there could be another type of effect that could enhance their guitar tone that they'll only need to buy once. And ...

So you want to play country guitar, what do you need? Well, let’s be real, a cowboy hat and boots is pretty much a sartorial non-negotiable. More fundamentally, the Telecaster is the industry standard ...

The best compressor pedals are designed to make your guitar tone sound balanced, even and controlled. Although some guitarists like to use compression on their overdrive channels, the compressor’s ...

Freshly squeezed from the R&D department at legendary British guitar amp brand Orange comes the King Comp, a “studio quality” VCA compressor that allows you to squash and tame unwanted transients in ...

Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal to help shape their instrument's tone, boost its dynamics or sonic capabilities, or perform practical duties to ensure they always ...

This audio is from a piece of research by Dr Bruno Fazenda at Salford University. It gradually adds more compression onto a recording of a guitar. Initially the guitar sounds quite natural, but then ...