Boss is promising “a new era in pitch shifting” with a pair of pedals for electric guitar and bass that present players with real-time control over the tuning of their instrument and some of the ...

Combining the flexibility of software plugins with the hands-on controls of music hardware rarely works well, if you ask me. But Boss is trying anyway with the $249.99 PX-1, a guitar pedal and app ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

FULL TUTORIAL: Live guitar percussion with no loops or backtracks. Gear used: - Ovation CC24 guitar - Peavey Keyboard amp - Digitech RP90 effects pedal - Boss OC-3 Octave Pedal Effects include vibrato ...

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 ...

The Electro-Harmonix POG 3 is ridiculously good fun, providing a bountiful supply of tones that will keep most guitar players experimenting for hours. Despite some small flaws and questions over ...

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...

An occasional look at Connecticut’s remarkable people, places and things Among serious electric guitar players and collectors, a few bits of gear stand out as holy grail acquisitions: Good examples of ...

The guitar in John Snyder’s lap is wired through a nondescript aluminum box covered in an array of knobs and switches. As Snyder manipulates them, the tone coming from his amp warbles in otherworldly ...