MusicRadar basics is brought to you in association with Boss. Don't forget you can link up with Boss UK on Facebook and Twitter. You can think of delay as being an echo or repeat of your guitar sound.

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Meris has been making wild sounding hi-tech guitar pedals for sometime. But its latest entry, the LVX, is perhaps the wildest entry yet. At its core the LVX is a delay pedal, but a fantastically ...

It has been a banner week at Wampler Pedals with the launch of not one but two pedals, the Catacombs delay/reverb twofer, and Syntax, a mini-pedal that’s designed to make your life easier, giving you ...

The Chase Bliss Habit guitar pedal and effects unit stands on its end in front of a mixing board. (Engadget) I’ve been stuck in something of a creative rut for the last year or so. I’ve been sitting ...

The MXR Layers is a new looper pedal from MXR that focusses on textural pad creation and sound design, creating huge, ...

Whether you’ve been collecting guitar pedals for decades or just picked up the hobby in recent months, there are some staples that everybody should own. Whether it’s a practical, utilitarian type of ...

From the squeaky to the scuzzy, the blipping to the beeping, a collection of effects pedals can be one of the greatest assets in a guitarist’s arsenal of tricks. We geeked out with 16 gearhead ...

The Smile – the sonically adventurous trio of Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and jazz drummer Tom Skinner – are fresh off the release of Cutouts, the band's second album of 2024, and ...