It's hard to imagine rock music without guitar distortion: Jimi Hendrix's albums would be unthinkable. Punk rock couldn't have happened. Metallica might have wound up sounding like Barry Manilow.

If you're playing rock guitar, chances are that at some point you're going to want to use overdrive or distortion effects. Saturated, gnarly guitar tones are synonymous with rock music, and every ...

The post Social Distortion’s Mike Ness Unveils Gibson 1976 Les Paul Signature Model Guitar appeared first on Consequence. Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness has teamed up with Gibson for the limited ...

A cost-effective way to buy into the V-Guitar world, with a useful range of distortion textures and a synth sound thrown in. Full potential is not reached if you're using a conventional guitar.

Music making is increasingly digitized here in 2020, but some analog audio effects are still very difficult to reproduce in this way. One of those effects is the kind of screeching guitar distortion ...

A look at the evolution of the technologies that give rock its signature sound Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to ...

It’s an understatement that [Troy] is not impressed with the distortion circuitry built into this guitar amp. He picked it up for $40 on Kijiji (basically local classified ads run by eBay) so he ...

We all know what distortion sounds like. We’ve heard it in heavy metal tunes, cheap iPod docks and the crummy speakers at Taco Bell drive-thrus. And we’ve all read distortion specs on things like ...

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 ...