Guitar Accessories
The phrase “Golden Age” is thrown around a great deal these days—about podcasting, about TV dramas, about studio gear, and about guitar pedals. Indeed, we live in an aureate epoch of stompboxes, and many of them are exceedingly wallet friendly. There’s a good chance you have a guitar player in your life, be they a spouse, sibling, parent, or child. As such, we thought we’d make a list of some great, yet budget-conscious, pedals for you to present your guitar-playing friend.
For the Self-Jammer
Lots of guitar players need simple looping devices
Threading through a long list of legendary electric guitarists and their tonal mastery is a common and important factor… great pickups. For years upon years, Seymour Duncan has been a name tied to top-notch tone for electric guitars, and he continues to expand sonic horizons for players of all genres and styles. The new Red Devil pickups come hand built from Santa Barbara, California, with a sound buried deep in the heart of Texas. If the name Billy Gibbons (yes, of ZZ Top!)
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Our man AB checks out the Universal Audio OX, a powerful reactive load box and guitar-recording system designed to be used with your amp of choice. He is joined by his friend and talented guitarist Oscar Bautista, who demonstrates some of the sounds the OX can produce. If you’re interested in a powerful piece of gear that can help you get the most out of your guitar amp, you should check this video out! We hope you enjoy the video, and invite
Ever had this problem? You record a demo in your DAW, plugging your acoustic guitar straight into your interface—no mic, just a DI. Then, when it comes to the actual mix, you think: can’t I somehow just use that acoustic DI track, so I don’t have to mic up my acoustic? As probably the laziest person at the B&H office, I can assure you it’s happened to me.
Though sometimes the problem is not even due to laziness: maybe you played gold in that one passage, and you can’t recreate it. Whatever the reason, you’re stuck with DI, and no idea how
Since the launch of its revolutionary, kidney-shaped POD modeling device for guitarists, twenty years ago, Line 6 has remained at the forefront of guitar amp and effects modelling technology. Now at NAMM 2018, the company unveils the new HX Effects floorboard guitar processor, an impressive addition to the award-winning Helix family of multi-effect processors, which recreate amps, cabs, mics, and effects with accuracy
It's NAMM 2018, and someone is saying, "Let me hear that bass and put it in my face." Well, it's easy with some of the new stompboxes we are seeing for bass instruments from Ampeg. At B&H, we checked out the LIQUIFIER Analog Chorus and the OPTO COMP Analog Optical Compressor.
The LIQUIFIER features a dual-chorus circuit
Forty years ago, BOSS issued some truly classic guitar pedals. Forty years later, three of them have been reissued in near-faithful reproductions. The prefix of “near” here has been deployed to signify improvement, not imperfection: where the company has enacted enhancements, it has been to improve functionality, not tone; their legendary sound remains wholly unaffected.
Before we go any further, let’s examine the three pedals: first
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For all the acoustic guitarists who desire a DI box that makes your guitar sound like your guitar and more, Zoom has made the AC-3 Acoustic Creator. Very few people are pleased and inspired by the sound of a DI’ed acoustic; Zoom aims to change that. The AC-3 offers a host of features designed to give you your sound, the way you hear it.
The AC-3 starts with the same preamp and 3-band EQ as the AC-2 for clean and flexible amplification. You can
Zoom adds the new AC-2 Acoustic Creator to its line of effects boxes designed for acoustic-electric guitarists looking to amplify their sound on stage or in the studio, with a true acoustic sound. This enhanced DI box offers advanced sound remodeling to help restore tones lost through using conventional acoustic pickups. It also features a high-quality pre-amp, which boosts your signal while keeping your sound lush, resonant, and true to
Watch as Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti sits down with Born Cage’s Vlad Holiday to talk DI guitar recording. In this video, Colletti and Holiday sit down and dive into three different pieces of amplifier-simulation software: Guitar Rig 5 (offered in Komplete 11), AmpliTube 4, and
In this video, Justin Colletti continues the discussion on recording guitar without the amplifier, this time eschewing software and focusing on the actual recording methods themselves. The process of “reamping”—as well as obtaining the classic, DI’ed tones used by the Beatles and Led Zeppelin to great effect—are a both covered. The Tech 21 Fly Rig 5 is a product you’ll see shown off here.
Are you a guitar player looking for a DI—one with a vintage-style parametric EQ section? Then you’re in luck, because Tech 21, the lauded luminaries behind SansAmp, have a pedal for you. With low-shelving, high-shelving, and two frequency-selectable parametric midrange bands, the Q/Strip utilizes a 100% analog MOSFET design to help you achieve a warm, creamy guitar tone evocative of classic analog consoles—a very specific console, if you’re
Ever wondered what would happen if you could plug a classic VOX amplifier directly into your ears (and your guitar)? Well, now you can find out, with the amPlug series. It works like this: you plug its ¼" into the jack of your guitar, and then loop your headphones into its 3.5mm headphone port. There’s even a separate line input so you can jam with your favorite bands right from your smart device or music player—and no one has to hear you! Three different models are featured in this here roundup, though all of them give you built-in effects
Are you tired of that quacky, lifeless, and all-around weird DI’ed acoustic guitar tone? Acoustic guitar players know what I’m talking about: that listless, clangy timbre—which doesn’t truly communicate the vim and vigor of your axe in its intended acoustic state—is indeed a drag. Luckily, you can ameliorate the problem with the iRig Acoustic Stage, which aims to deliver a truer acoustic tone straight from the amplifier,
Guitar players often have a hard time finding the right kind of delay for their pedalboard. There’s digital, analog, analog model, and not to mention, brands upon brands upon brands. Unfortunately, you’re about to find two more stompboxes that’ll make rendering any kind of final decision even more impossible (which, as any gearhead will tell you, is part of the fun). Take a gander at the Echobandit Gold and the