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

These new Boss pitch-shifting pedals have been a long time in the making, and now they’re here and ready to go toe-to-toe with DigiTech

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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

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

IF YOU’VE SEEN recent footage of Eric Steckel in action, you’ll probably have noticed that his take on the blues is an undeniably aggressive one. It’s a new thing for him, he tells GW, having started