Effects

Ogre’s Tubeholic pedal overdrive contains neither tubes nor, as far as I can tell, any alcohol. It does, however, feature 440g of barking-mad cast metal as its case.

In modern productions, reverb often isn’t just reverb. Waves’ latest plug-in offers all the extra tools you’ll need.

Thanks to the addition of powerful pitch-correction and manual time-warping features, Revoice Pro 3 offers a complete vocal-processing toolkit.

The phase-style effects created by these two new TC Electronic TonePrint-series pedals are anything but ordinary.

While an overdrive pedal might not seem like an obvious studio accessory I’ve often found that using an analogue overdrive pedal before a software modelling amp/speaker produces more musical results.

For such a simple-looking box, decked out with one knob, two buttons and no display beyond a single LED, the TC-Helicon Ditto Mic Looper is a very sophisticated piece of kit.

While we’ve all been sitting waiting for the next big thing in studio recording, there’s been a quiet but very significant revolution going on literally beneath our feet in the world of effect pedals.

If you read my review of the Electro–Harmonix B9 Organ Machine effects pedal, their C9 will look very familiar but this latest pedal offers different sounds.

Flux FX is an ambitious iOS effect processor created by guitar legend Adrian Belew and developers. It provides a chain of up to five versatile effects, each with an X-Y pad for performance access, plus a step sequencer for capturing pad motion.

As iconic and extensive as it is, the Boss range of pedals has never included a proper guitar synth — until now.

Compact pedalboard? DI preamp? The perfect ‘B–rig’? This ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of guitar processors is all of those, and more.

So many Leslie speaker emulators are mere approximations. Could authenticity lurk in these tiny boxes?

Is EHX’s latest pedal perfect for guitarists who want to pull out all the stops?

Could this thoughtfully designed bass front-end be the answer to every bassist’s stage and studio prayers

By designing a signal processing environment that offers endless modulation and routing options, Native Instruments hope to reinvent the way we use effects.

Korg's Pandora series first appeared almost 20 years ago, but the range has evolved with the march of technology. Today's...

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Danish vocal‑effects experts TC Helicon combine their established harmony and effects processing with some seriously impressive looping technology.

DOD's Phasor 201 was one of the first commercial phaser pedals.

Just what the world needs, right? Another overdrive pedal... Well, in the case of the Electro-Harmonix Soul Food the answer...

Although they're intended mainly for guitarists, modular knob twiddlers could also find plenty to like about Moog's new pedals.