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Guitar Pedal Advice

How to use amp distortion with pedal effects – by Wampler & Strymon

Those who like the distortion of their amp but still use stompboxes for delay and modulation effects, should be aware of how to connect the various pieces together - the order greatly influences the results! The educational videos below by Brian at Wampler Pedals go through the basics. Those of you who like…Click on the title for more

How to use amp distortion with pedal effects – by Wampler & Strymon

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

The selection of the ideal stompboxes for your effect rig is made a lot more complicated by how they interact with each other, and - of course - by the order you put them in. One the the eternal questions related to pedal order is: what goes first, reverb or delay?…Click on the title for more

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

Know Your Filters: Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass, Resonance.

Electronic music wouldn't sound much different from its electric sister if filters hadn't been invented. A filter is a frequency amplifier (or "tamer") device, i.e. an effect that operates on the frequencies of a sound - it can boost them, cut them or mute them, but it can't create ones…Click on the title for more

Know Your Filters: Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass, Resonance.

Get your Vintage Fuzz Tone Right

When you play garage or psych rock you can get away with sloppy drums and vocals (it's lo-fi, baby!), but you better do your homework as far as your distorted guitar tone is concerned. ’60s fuzz pedals are some of the most collected and sought after guitar effects. Due to…Click on the title for more

Get your Vintage Fuzz Tone Right