Best Guitar Picks, Effects Pedals, & Accessories

BOOK REVIEW: Pedal Crush

Guitar related books are plentiful, and many have become the respected bibles for the instruments they have covered. They’re part informational/reference items, but the glossy pictures make them interesting and inspiring to...

REVIEW: Boss RC-5 Loop Station Pedal

Looping in general is a pretty simple process using a footswitch-enabled recording...

REVIEW: Boss OC-5 Octave Pedal

Boss pedals generally set the standard, right from the get-go, of that...

REVIEW: Boss RC-500 Loop Station Pedal

It’s no surprise that looping pedals can be a way of providing...

REVIEW: Boss GT-1000CORE Multi-Effects Processor

When you take a flagship product, and streamline/consolidate it, the results in...

Learn more about the best guitar picks, guitar pedals and guitar accessories you can buy, including: pickups, picks, capos, guitar tools, gig bags and guitar cases, as well as guitar cables, guitar cleaning products and more. Performer Magazine’s team of guitar nerds are on an endless quest for the perfect tone and review the latest guitar accessories each month so you’ll know which ones are worth a spot in your gig bag, and which ones are pure snake oil.

Guitars have more accessories than just about anything on the planet, so it can be confusing. Knowing which picks, cables, cases and cleaners to buy can be daunting. That’s why our team of experts break it down in practical terms, and sift through the endless supply of guitar accessories to recommend only the ones you’ll actually find useful.

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REVIEW: CopperSound Third Man Triplegraph Octave Pedal
By Chris Devine on March 3, 2021
Back in 2017 we got to review Coppersound’s Telegraph Stutter pedal with its unique momentary switch that uses the mechanical concept of old timey telegraphs....
REVIEW: CopperSound Strategy Analog Preamp Pedal
By Chris Devine on March 3, 2021
OK, yes the new CopperSound Strategy pedal looks like a Jeff Goldbloom/fly merger/accident happened with a stompbox and a Strat. The input is the same...
Source Audio Collider Pedal Review
By Chris Devine on October 19, 2020
Source Audio has brought together the best of their Ventris Dual Reverb and Nemesis Delay pedals into one compact unit and didn’t leave anything out...
Coda Music Technologies STOMP Bluetooth Page Turner Pedal REVIEW
By Chris Devine on September 24, 2020
STOMP offers up hands-free control of a tablet’s page-turning functionality, wirelessly, with super easy connectivity and functionality. The STOMP bluetooth page turner pedal is quite...
EarthQuaker Plumes Pedal REVIEW
By Chris Devine on June 10, 2020
EarthQuaker Devices certainly makes some very extreme and over the top stomp boxes, and when we heard about their Plumes pedal, we were prepared for...