Pedalboard
Everything published on Viyolens under Pedalboard — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Boost Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Complete guide to choosing a boost pedal. Learn about boost types, key specifications, signal chain placement, and recommendations for every budget.
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.
Tc Electronic Delay: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Overwhelmed by TC Electronic's delay options? This buying guide covers product lines, specs that matter, price-to-value analysis, and how to choose the right pedal.
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.
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.
Tonex Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
There's only one version of the Tonex Pedal hardware, but the buying decision still has a few things worth knowing. Here's the complete picture.
The Complete Guide to Tc Electronic Effects Pedals
TC Electronic effects pedals represent professional-grade guitar effects with innovative TonePrint technology. Discover how these pedals deliver studio-quality sound in compact, roadworthy formats.
Octave Pedal for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Octave Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Common Fuzz Pedal Mistakes to Avoid
Most fuzz problems are avoidable once you understand why the circuit behaves the way it does. Here's what goes wrong most often and how to fix it.
Expression Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Polarity switches, build quality, and which models actually work with your gear — a practical buyer's guide to the expression pedal.
Chorus Pedal Explained: Features, Types and Tips
A chorus pedal splits your signal, delays a copy and varies its pitch to create a lush, doubled sound — here's how it works and how to use the controls effectively.
Guitar Effects Compressor for Beginners: A Complete Guide
If you're curious about guitar effects compressor pedals, you're exploring one of the most misunderstood yet genuinely transformative effects available to guitarists.
Noise Gate Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Choosing a noise gate pedal means matching the tracking design to the type of noise you have. Inline gates handle mild noise; loop gates work better for high-gain setups. Here's the full buying breakd...
Guitar Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Benjamin Wood cuts through the noise and explains what actually matters when buying a guitar pedal — from the right questions to ask yourself to the specs that affect real-world usability.
The Complete Guide to Guitar Effects Power Supplies
Quality guitar effects power supplies eliminate ground loop hum and ensure reliable power distribution across your pedalboard. Learn why isolated power matters and how to choose the right supply for y...
Loop Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
The spec sheet stops being marketing noise once you know what it's actually telling you — here's how to choose the right loop pedal for how you play.
Jhs Guitar Pedals: A Complete Buyer's Guide
Before you buy, work out what gain stage you're actually missing. Here's how to choose the right JHS pedal and tier.
The Complete Guide to Bass Preamp Pedals
Bass preamp pedals combine compression, EQ, drive, and DI functionality for professional tone shaping and recording in portable, pedalboard-friendly formats.
The Complete Guide to Line 6 Guitar Effect
Line 6 guitar effects offer powerful digital tone-shaping combining amp modelling, vast effect libraries, and giggable interfaces in accessible packages.
Pedalboard for Beginners: A Complete Guide
Building your first pedalboard doesn't have to be complicated. Here's the practical path: choose a size, get power right, arrange your effects, and add room to grow.
Chorus Pedal for Beginners: A Complete Guide
A chorus pedal adds shimmer, width and movement to a clean guitar tone — and getting started with one is surprisingly straightforward once you understand the three main controls.
Spring Reverb Pedal: A Complete Buyer's Guide
A practical buying guide to selecting the right spring reverb pedal, covering specifications, price ranges, tank-based vs. digital options, and what to test before purchase.
The Ultimate Guide to Patch Cables
Pedalboard, studio patchbay or modular synth — here's what patch cables actually are in each context, and why one type won't do another's job.
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Chorus Pedal
A modulation pedal that adds width, shimmer and depth to guitar, bass and other clean instrument 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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Loop Pedal
Loop pedals let guitarists record and repeat phrases for practice, songwriting and layered live performances.
2 topics
Patch Cables
Short cables used to connect pedals and effects, helping keep rigs tidy, quiet and dependable on stage or in the studio.
Pedalboard
Pedalboards keep effects organised, protected and easy to manage for rehearsal, recording and live use.
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Reverb Pedal
Reverb pedals add depth, space and ambience to guitar tone, from subtle polish to expansive atmospheric effects.
Tc Electronic
TC Electronic pedals and audio tools for guitar, bass and studio signal processing.
5 topics
Tonex Pedal
Compact modelling pedal for versatile tone shaping, ideal for practice, recording, direct use and live performance.
