ONE OF THE most inspiring guitar tones is the sound of a tube amp that’s just on the edge of breaking up. There’s something truly magical about a combo that hovers between clean and distorted, coaxing

Manson Guitar Works’ first stompbox delivers a high degree of variation in your fuzz tone

WHERE DEMAND FOR pedal effects grew exponentially during the early Seventies as musicians sought new sounds, many stomp box designers turned to the synthesizer for new inspiration. Mike Beigel was amo

Dan Coggins makes the drive section of his award-winning Cogmeister powerhouse available as a pedal of its own

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER Tube Screamer-inspired overdrive has shown up at our door. At this point, we have to ask ourselves, “Have we hit the ceiling in the amount of Screamer-style overdrive pedals?” We

Fender reaches into its archives to bring this lesser-known classic back to life. Let’s see if it captures the original magic