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 ...

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.

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 ...