Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...

All the latest and greatest gear drops coming out of the largest music trade show in the world – with new launches from ...

Guitar World's Pete Emery tests the Boss XS-1 and XS-100 Poly Shifter pedals. These polyphonic pitch-shifters allow you to create sweeping pitch bends, fast-tracking drop tunings, harmony effects and ...

The GX-1 and GX-1B have hi-res displays, assignable footswitches, AIRD tech and the all-new Gear Suite feature for super-easy ...

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 ...

We may earn an affiliate commission when you buy through our links. Guitar effects technology is continually making leaps and bounds. There's no shortage of increasingly good-sounding all-in-one ...

Among serious electric guitar players and collectors, a few bits of gear stand out as holy grail acquisitions: Good examples of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar, or amplifiers built by Howard ...

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 ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Whether you’re a regular shredder or you’re just beginning to ...

I’ve been playing guitar since I was eleven-years old, and I have seen my fair share of guitar tech come and go. The portable and desktop guitar amplifier isn’t anything new, we’ve always had small ...

It’s that time of the year again, in which we like to say we’re ”taking stock and reflecting”, but are really just rushing around and doing a lot of shopping. As such, Reverb’s best-selling pedals of ...

Roland-owned Boss has launched a new compact pedal that offers guitarists stomp-sized access to digital recreations of 11 amp tones matched with Celestion Impulse Responses, for "consistent, ...