Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...

From heavy metal to pop, the guitar synthesizer is one of the most commonly used additions for any guitar player. It’s what gives rock songs that piercing distortion and the woeful tones to the blues.

In the late seventies, Roland took the sonic palette available to keyboard players and opened it up to guitarists, with the introduction on the GR-500. It was quite simply a marvel, but is positively ...

Steve Stevens recalls the day he made an arrangement to debut Roland’s revolutionary GR-707 guitar synthesizer to America’s guitarists. It happened while he and Billy Idol were in Japan promoting Idol ...