You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before, most likely in any ‘old’ country song, or more specifically, any country song that doesn’t include the word ‘truck’ in its lyrics.

Otherwise referred to as signal processors, effects pedals are capable of manipulating the audio produced by the guitar in a number of ways. With the help of an amplifier, sound waves travel ...

Find out more about how we test. The MXR Layers is a new looper pedal from MXR that focusses on textural pad creation and sound design, creating huge, cascading multi-layered sustain from your guitar.

By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde ...