Using a Boost Pedal with Overdrive
Overdrives and boosts, considered by some (me) to be a rock guitarist’s most used effects, help establish the foundation for tasty, clipped tone. While we all know and love the effect overdrive pedals create, boosts have somewhat of a mysterious air about them. Clearly, it’s easier to hear how an overdrive affects your overall tone […]
Gibson At CES: Mysterious New V Guitar and Semi-Hollow Modern Double Cut
This year, Gibson chose to showcase their wares at the Consumer Electronics Show rather than at NAMM, and like at last year’s show, there’s buzz surrounding their Modern Double Cut model — this time with a semi-hollow body. Like the original Modern Double Cut, this model is made by the Gibson Custom Shop and costs […]
NAMM 2018 Rumor Roundup
With NAMM 2018 just around the corner, we’ve rounded up some of the hottest rumors and rumblings we’ve heard through the grapevine — along with some actual, confirmed gear news — and compiled it all here, organized alphabetically by brand and complete with a handy guide to let you know how sure or unsure we […]
Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Audio Interfaces for Beginners
Ready to set up a home studio and start recording your music? A digital audio interface is a good place to begin building your rig. If you’ve already got a computer, one of these boxes will let you connect instruments and microphones via a USB port, and start capturing audio and MIDI into recording software […]
Ibanez Nu Tubescreamer Revealed
Over the weekend, news broke via Effects Database and Youtuber Remy Hansen of Ibanez’s latest overdrive pedal, the Nu Tubescreamer. Pairing the legendary tones and styling of the classic TS808 overdrive pedal with Nutube technology from Korg, the Nu Tubescreamer features true bypasss switching and the same drive, tone and level controls as the original. Where […]
Top 5 zZounds Videos of 2017
With 2017 drawing to a close, we here at zZounds found ourselves feeling a bit nostalgic. After comparing our 2017 Spotify favorites playlists, we quickly fell into another classic trap — the YouTube video hole, going back through all our favorite zZounds videos of the year. Maybe it’s the eggnog talking, but we feel that […]
Doubling Guitar with Synthesizers
Many engineers have employed a “secret sauce” for mixing thick bass tracks that involves adding a synthesizer-doubled track to create a sonic profile with seemingly endless low end (at least to the human ear.) This is common knowledge to most recording artists and has been practiced for years on countless records and sessions in most […]
Episode 111 – Tyminski
This Week On Walking The Floor Longtime singer/guitarist with Alison Krauss & Union Station, Dan Tyminski, stops by to chat about his recent solo record Southern Gothic, as well as maintaining his anonymity while enjoying massive success, in the form of hit songs like “Man of Constant Sorrow” and “Hey Brother!” About The Guest Dan […]
Ibanez Announces The Rock and Rebuild Charity Fundraiser
With 2017 coming to a close, many of us can look back on the year and find a lot to be grateful for. But for so many, the past year has been a challenge. Multiple catastrophic weather events and national tragedies have caused too many people to lose everything they have. Ibanez has stepped up to […]
