You’re chilling in your living room with three buddies preparing to play some Rock Band 2 when it suddenly hits you: someone will have to play bass. It’s a low point in anyone’s day, because the ...

SUMMER NAMM 2017: Kirk Hammett’s KHDK Electronics has branched out into the low-end with its first bass stompbox, the Abyss bass overdrive. Three years in the making, the Abyss offers dirty and clean ...

NAMM 2017: The show itself may have finished, but we still have plenty of exciting NAMM gear news to share with you. Like this, for instance: a pair of all-new pedals derived from Ampeg, both derived ...

The TightDrive from Amptweaker allows guitar and bass players to take control of that all important tone and overcome any unwanted delay that can slow down the sound as it moves through an amp's ...

Over the last decade or so, Darkglass has risen in status to become the de facto industry leader in bass overdrive and distortion. The Microtubes range, in particular the B7K preamp, became ...

The Hammertone Breakup Drive and Hammertone Boost have abundant tone-sweetening powers with lots of bang for your buck ...

It’s an open, gritty but not spitty, low to mid-gain overdrive that offers a lot of clarity and definition. Where the original lacked in level, all of the modern versions improved on this and one of ...

It's one thing to use a real live stompbox to activate Overdrive; it's another to hack up your Rock Band kick pedal to enable that sweet, sweet double bass action that Lars Ulrich, Joey Jordison and ...