Guitar Effects
Everything published on Viyolens under Guitar Effects — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
The Complete Guide to Sustain Guitar Pedal
A sustain guitar pedal extends your note decay, enabling soaring leads and powerful tones. Learn how sustain pedals work, which type suits your style, and how to set them up for maximum musical impact...
Chase Bliss Pedal for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Chase Bliss Audio makes some of the most sophisticated guitar effect pedals in the world, but their reputation for complexity intimidates many beginners. The truth: their sophistication serves musicia...
The Complete Guide to Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal
Overdrive pedals transform guitar tone. Discover how to choose, use, and stack them for blues, rock, and beyond.
The Complete Guide to Strymon Guitar Pedals
Strymon guitar pedals deliver studio-grade digital effects trusted by professional musicians worldwide. Explore their most popular models and why they represent the pinnacle of effects processing.
Pedal Power Supply Explained: Features, Types and Tips
A pedal power supply converts mains electricity to the low-voltage DC power your effects pedals need. Understanding voltage, polarity and current is essential for clean, quiet pedalboard performance.
Volume Pedal Explained: Features, Types and Tips
A volume pedal puts dynamic control under your foot — this guide covers how they work, passive vs active designs, and what the secondary outputs are for.
Fender Pedal for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Fender pedals blend American heritage with beginner-friendly simplicity. This guide covers entry-level models, effect types, and how to build your first effects setup.
The Complete Guide to Zoom Multi Effect
A zoom multi effect unit combines professional effects processing in one portable device. Discover how to choose and master your zoom multi effect for studio and live performance.
Flanger Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Choosing between analogue and digital designs and knowing which price point makes sense for your playing situation are the key decisions — this buyer's guide covers both clearly.
The Complete Guide to Zoom Pedals
Zoom pedals deliver professional-grade multi-effects processing in portable devices. Learn how to choose between guitar and bass models and maximise their creative potential.
The Complete Guide to Guitar Pedal Amplifier
A guitar pedal amplifier is a powered speaker designed for monitoring complex pedalboards and practising silently. Unlike traditional guitar amplifiers, pedal amplifiers stay tonally neutral, perfect...
Patch Cables: A Complete Buyer's Guide
What are you actually connecting? Here's how to buy the right cables for your rig without wasting money on the wrong format.
The Complete Guide to Tremolo Arm Guitar
The tremolo arm is one of the most expressive features on an electric guitar, allowing players to modify pitch and create dramatic effects. Master the techniques and choose the right system for your p...
Guitar Effects Pedals Wah: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Most wah pedals look the same on the outside. Here's what actually matters underneath, so you don't end up buying twice.
The Complete Guide to Pitch Shifter Effect Pedal
A pitch shifter effect pedal lets you create harmonies, thicken arrangements and explore creative textures. This guide covers the technology, key models and techniques for making the most of one.
The Best Strymon Timeline Pedals for the Money
Getting the best value from this delay pedal comes down to purchase route, compatible power, and knowing which add-ons genuinely earn their cost.
Guitar Amp Effects: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Whether buying built-in or external effects, understanding reverb, delay, and modulation helps you select guitar amp effects that enhance your sound.
The Complete Guide to Compressor Effect Pedal
A compressor effect pedal controls dynamics and adds sustain to your instrument. Discover how to select the right compressor effect pedal for your playing style and master its settings.
Line 6 Helix for Beginners: A Complete Guide
A warm, no-pressure introduction to the Line 6 Helix for anyone feeling overwhelmed by their first modelling processor.
Pedal Delay Behringer: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Behringer pedal delay offers genuine value for budget-conscious players. This buying guide covers which models to consider, what specs matter, and pitfalls to avoid.
The Complete Guide to Tremolo Guitar Effect
Tremolo is one of the most iconic guitar effects, creating a rhythmic pulse that ranges from subtle to extreme. Learn how it works, how to dial in classic sounds, and when to use it.
The Complete Guide to Voice Pedals
Voice pedals add harmonic depth and creative texture to bass and guitar tones. Learn how octave and harmony voice pedals work, how to position them in your signal chain, and discover practical applica...
Ibanez Pedal for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Starting effects exploration with an Ibanez pedal opens new musical possibilities. This beginner guide covers setup, basic operation, common mistakes, and creative experimentation.
Fender Effects Pedals: A Complete Guide
Fender launched their effects pedal range in 2018, expanding beyond guitars and amplifiers into gain, modulation, delay and reverb. This guide covers the complete range, how each pedal works, and how...
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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...
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Distortion
Distortion gives guitarists gritty, saturated tone for riffs, solos and heavier styles across live and studio settings.
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Distortion Pedal
A distortion pedal adds focused gain, sustain and punch for guitarists building classic or high-gain tones.
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Guitar Pedal
Effects pedals for adding drive, ambience and tonal variety to your guitar sound in practice, recording and live perform...
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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.
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Tc Electronic
TC Electronic pedals and audio tools for guitar, bass and studio signal processing.
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