Guitar Effects
Everything published on Viyolens under Guitar Effects — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Overdrive Guitar for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Curious about overdrive? This guide demystifies overdrive guitar for beginners, explaining what it does and how to start exploring.
Bass Effects Pedals for Beginners: A Complete Guide
A small number of well-chosen effects covers most of what a beginner bassist actually needs. Here is where to start, how to connect things, and what to explore next.
Voice Guitar Pedal for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Voice guitar pedals add vocal-like effects to your tone—chorus, reverb, harmoniser—using straightforward controls. This beginner guide explains what effects do, provides simple starting points, and ad...
The Complete Guide to Bd 2 Boss
Explore the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver: the iconic overdrive pedal offering warm, organic tone that responds to your playing for over 30 years.
Wampler Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Wampler pedals deliver exceptional tone-shaping capabilities and handcrafted American quality. This guide explores Wampler pedal types, essential specifications, tone characteristics, pedalboard integ...
Patch Cables for Beginners: A Complete Guide
You've bought your second pedal and now need something to join it up. Here's exactly what to get, no studio jargon required.
Chase Bliss Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
A comprehensive guide to choosing the right Chase Bliss effects pedal, covering the product range, price tiers, sound characteristics, and how to spot real value.
Line 6 Hx Stomp Explained: Features, Types and Tips
The Line 6 HX Stomp runs the same modeling engine as the Helix Floor in a compact three-switch chassis — 300+ amp and effects models, USB audio interface, and a form factor that fits in a rucksack.
The Best Jhs Guitar Pedals for the Money
Budget, mid-range or boutique — here's the JHS pedal that earns its price at every tier, not just the flagship end.
Digitech Explained: Features, Types and Tips
Digitech made real-time pitch shifting usable on stage. Here's an honest tour of the Whammy family and the rest of the range.
A Guide to Phaser Pedals
A phaser pedal splits your signal, shifts phase relationships through a chain of all-pass filters, and creates sweeping notches in the frequency spectrum. Once you understand how it works, you hear it...
The Complete Guide to Preamp Guitar Pedal
A preamp guitar pedal captures amplifier preamp characteristics in portable format, offering professional tone shaping for recording, live performance, and tone experimentation without full amplifier...
The Complete Guide to Boss Guitar Loop Pedal
A Boss guitar loop pedal lets you build complete arrangements by layering guitar parts over themselves. Discover how these pedals work, what features matter, and how to use them effectively.
The Ultimate Guide to Mxr Pedals
MXR makes some of the most reliable and musical effects pedals on the market. This guide covers the brand's history, key product lines and what makes an MXR pedal stand out.
The Complete Guide to Orange Pedal
Orange pedals have earned their reputation as essential tools for musicians seeking reliability, durability, and consistent performance. The distinctive orange finish and robust construction make Oran...
The Complete Guide to Pedal Chorus Boss
A pedal chorus Boss delivers shimmering, dimensional tone that enhances any guitar sound. Discover how chorus works, which Boss models suit your needs, and why this effect is essential for modern play...
Everything You Need to Know About Jhs Guitar Pedals
The honest rundown on JHS Pedals: who's behind them, what the range actually covers, and where the real value sits.
Modulation Guitar Effects for Beginners: A Complete Guide
A practical beginner's guide to modulation guitar effects. Understand chorus, flange, phaser, and how to use modulation effects musically and creatively.
The Complete Guide to Mxr Eq Ten Band
The MXR EQ ten band is a precise frequency-shaping tool for guitarists. It eliminates feedback, adapts tone to venues and amps, and gives surgical control over your tone.
The Best Patch Cables for the Money
No made-up ranking, just the honest pick — the best patch cables for a tight pedalboard, passive tone, a studio patchbay, or life on the road.
Everything You Need to Know About Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pedal
Electro Harmonix pedals deliver character and personality that define classic rock and alternative tones. From the iconic Big Muff to beloved effects like the Small Clone, explore why these pedals rem...
E Bow Explained: Features, Types and Tips
A small handheld device that coaxes a single guitar string into a long, sustained, almost vocal tone, purely through magnetism.
Chase Bliss: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Essential buying guide for Chase Bliss pedals, covering key specifications, price considerations, common mistakes, model selection, and where to purchase with warranty.
The Complete Guide to Boss Dd 500 Delay
The Boss DD-500 is a professional-grade delay pedal offering pristine sound quality and comprehensive effects for touring musicians and studio recording.
Guitar Effects is filed under
All topics
Bass Effects Pedals
Bass effects pedals add tone shaping, texture and control for recording, rehearsal and live bass work.
Boss Pedal
Boss pedals are durable, reliable effects for guitarists who need straightforward tone shaping in rehearsal, studio and...
2 topics
Distortion
Distortion gives guitarists gritty, saturated tone for riffs, solos and heavier styles across live and studio settings.
5 topics
Distortion Pedal
A distortion pedal adds focused gain, sustain and punch for guitarists building classic or high-gain tones.
1 topic
Guitar Pedal
Effects pedals for adding drive, ambience and tonal variety to your guitar sound in practice, recording and live perform...
18 topics
Line 6 Helix
Line 6 Helix delivers powerful modelling, routing and switching for players who need studio-grade flexibility in one sys...
Looper Pedal
A looper pedal helps guitarists build layered parts for practice, composition and live solo performances.
2 topics
Tc Electronic
TC Electronic pedals and audio tools for guitar, bass and studio signal processing.
5 topics
