In a previous entry into this “wondrous”, if not “ponderous” blogspace, I alluded to the fact that an industrious EE/designer could make a nice farthing or two just creating distortion pedals for ...

A look at the evolution of the technologies that give rock its signature sound Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to ...

Engineer Glenn Snoddy, who opened Woodland Sound Studios and who revolutionized electric guitar sound with the distorted "fuzz-tone" heard on Marty Robbins' "Don't Worry" and, later, the Rolling ...