Getting Started with Acoustic IRs

Acoustic IRs are a great way do get studio acoustic sounds in a live environment. Depending on your use case, you can improve an existing acoustic sound, get a piezo sound to sound like a mic’d acoustic, or even use magnetic pickups on an electric guitar to simulate an acoustic. Here are some of the…Read More

Top Analog Multi-Effect Overdrives

This is a list of all analog drives which change the circuits enough to be consider multiple drives in one pedal: 1) Subdecay Vector Preamp 2) Tskalis Audio Works Six 3) Elecktron Analog drive 4) Chase Bliss Audio Brothers 5) Empress Multidrive 6) JHS Pedals Bonzai 7) JHS Pedals Muffuletta

Top Single-Pedal Sized Multi Effects

Guitar effects technology is improving every year, and with that effects pedals are to pack more and more into a pedal. This is our list of the top multi-effects pedals that fit in a single (mxr sized) guitar pedal. 1) Hotone Xtomp Touting component level modeling, the Hotone Xtomp allows you to load one high…Read More

Top 5 Compact IR Pedals

Impulse Responses have been making big waves in recent years. Now they’ve finally started to make their way into the compact pedal format, making realistic speaker simulation available to smaller pedalboards and lighter budgets. Here are some of the latest and greatest: 1) Hotone Omni IR Just release from Hotone, they’ve shrunk down their IR…Read More

10 Ways To Use Acoustic Imaging

For a long time, acoustic players have struggled when trying to amplify the natural sound of their acoustic guitar live. Simple EQ or compression, never seemed enough to recreate the warm natural tones of their instrument. Direct recording of electric guitars took a big leap forward when guitarists and sound engineers started applying Impulse Responses…Read More