IF you only watch one guitar video this year, watch this one! It’s full of tone geekery and awesome blues and funk licks. I didn’t know Kirk Fletcher before watching, what a player!
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2018/01/14/kirk-fletcher-in-that-pedal-show/
Codtone is a very cool one man boutique manufacturer based out of northern New South Wales in Australia. Not only does he craft killer pedals often based on well known circuits, he also offers so...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2017/08/07/codtone-big-muff-civil-war-era-clone/
I have recently acquired a Tech 21 British V2 Sansamp from the Character series. for the purpose of recording direct. Here is a quick test where I have set the British V2 quite clean and a Wample...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2017/06/25/quick-test-tech-21-british-v2-for-direct-recording/
Here is a pretty good youtube series. “Pedal Power” by D’addario strings has been around for a while but Dweezil Zappa has stepped forward to host the show, and it’s pretty cool. Here is ...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2017/06/16/pedal-power-video-series-hosted-by-dweezil-zappa/
Guitar slinger friends, I have just launched a separate Youtube channel dedicated to videos in French! The reason for it: there is a large offering of demos or general guitar and effects talk in ...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/12/07/legendary-pedals-videos-in-french/
After hearing so much about Wampler, I bought a Pinnacle a few months back. Wampler’s offering is of course not limited to drive pedals and it carries the whole gamut of effects. The Pinnacle i...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/11/07/wampler-pinnacle/
TC Electronic has been announcing new pedals all day. They are no frills, toneprint-less, mostly analog (save for a reverb and a delay) models. Pretty much every effect is covered: chorus, phaser...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/10/21/onslaught-of-affordable-tc-electronic-pedals/
Benoît from Coda Effects started tinkering with pedal circuits a while back and his passion has led him to develop two original circuits. The financing of the production of the kits or assembled...
While researching about Tremolo pedals, I stumbled upon this video where Gerry Leonard (David Bowie, Suzanne Vega) demonstrates how he uses a multi-effect units. He is a very atmospheric guitaris...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/09/21/gerry-leonard-and-the-boss-me-80/
Two new pieces of gear from Roland/Boss caught my attention at summer NAMM. First, the CE-2 Waza craft version, aka CE-2W, is an all analog updated version of the sought after Chorus pedal from ...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/06/23/boss-ce-2w-and-robben-ford-blues-cube-tone-capsule/
The premierguitar.com rig rundowns have become pretty indispensable to GAS stricken guitarists. Andy Timmons is one of the “tonemeisters” of the modern era and this rig rundown is full of ama...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/04/02/andy-timmons-premier-guitar-rundown/
Here is a video going around that shows Joe Satriani playing “Surfing with the Alien” on a cheap Strat copy, a Peavey Backstage 30 practice amp and a Digitech RP200 multi-effect unit. This wi...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/02/03/satriani-playing-on-cheap-gear/
Ibanez have just announced a trio of mini pedals at NAMM: a chorus, an analog delay and a distortion. They seem to be modelled after the old AD-9, CS-9 and SM-9. As far as I know, the SM-9 was ...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/01/23/ibanez-mini-pedals-sm9-reissue/
Novelty is rare in the world of effects if I judge by the number of “Fuzz Face Clones” that seem to be released every day. Hologram Electronics is a new company which is off to a ripping star...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2016/01/20/hologram-electronics-dream-sequence/
Like clockwork, new Roland/Boss products are out for NAMM. Among them is a Waza craft version of the VB-2 vibrato, a legendary pedal that Boss produced over 30 years ago for a short while. It is ...
Back in February, Fractal Audio, maker of the Axe-Fx modelling guitar processors, discretely announced the AX8. A pedalboard version, the AX8 features more or less half the DSP power of the rack...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2015/10/07/fractal-audio-ax8/
There is a lot of boutique pedal manufacturers nowadays but not that many explore the digital side of things, I mean how many Fuzz Face clones do we need? Source Audio have been releasing a stead...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2015/09/08/source-audio-lunar-phaser/
Premier Guitar’s rig rundowns are usually highly enjoyable but I must say Jennifer Batten’s really caught my attention. She is an amazing guitarist but also her rig is very efficient and vers...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2015/09/08/jennifer-battern-rig-rundown/
Hi all, it’s been quiet lately on Guitar Tone Overload, day job, family, you know the drill! Here is a little experiment captured on video. There is so much “Boss bashing” by the experts l...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2015/04/26/tone-building-with-classic-boss-pedals/
I saw Steve Vai for a master class in Sydney in 2012 and although I could briefly approach his pedalboard, I did not really understand the presence of two Boss DD-7 delay pedals and two amps. Fas...
https://www.guitartoneoverload.com/2015/02/10/steve-vais-stereo-setup/