Read the first article in this series: Pedal effect circuit design: Getting started. Low-power, tube-like pedal effects can now be yours with a simple JFET circuit. The LSK489, in a common-source ...

Supercool Pedals is aptly named, with the Canadian guitar effects pedal company specialising in smart twists on pedalboard classics. It’s done Big Muffs, rolled up Small Clone-style BBD-driven ...

Great Eastern FX has unveiled the latest limited edition stompbox in its Obsolete Devices series, and it is a distortion pedal inspired by the iconic hard-clipping performance of the MXR Distortion+ ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jam Pedas Jam Pedals has launched a revised version of its much-loved Rat clone, with the ...

It does seem strange that the very same audiophile engineers that spout platitudes about the purest preamps and most meticulous microphone techniques will wax long (and longingly) over the subtleties ...

I recently had to explain two kinds of signal distortion, clipping and crossover, as they apply to class-B amplifiers. It ran like this. A typical class-B amplifier is made up of two halves, one of ...

An engineer asked me for help when he encountered what appeared to be strange phenomenon while testing a prototype circuit in the system. He saw “mysterious” clipping distortion of the signal at the ...

An engineer asked me for help when he encountered what appeared to be strange phenomenon while testing a prototype circuit in the system. He saw “mysterious” clipping distortion of the signal at the ...