Tracing back the history of music technology, you'll find a period in the second half of the 1970s when the phase-shifting effect ente...

Despite the love/hate reaction that Zoom effects tended to provoke when they stormed the market from the start of the 1990s, I think they’...

The Boss ME-5 was a superb quality, pioneering guitar FX unit, with a very simple layout and, chiefly, analogue processing. It incorporat...

Chorus. What is it? Where did it come from? And how does a musician make the best of it? The chorus effect progressed from being complete...

If you asked a guitarist to name an effects brand today, Vestax and Vesta Fire would probably be among the last answers you’d get. You’d ...

Zoom’s very first commercial FX unit was way ahead of its time. Too far ahead in many ways. In late 1989 when the Zoom 9002 Guitar FX Proces...

DOD pedals were a massively important facet of the FX market back in the heyday of the stomp box. Particularly with their diverse range of ...

The Boss FT-2 Dynamic Filter with an old Boss Pocket Dictionary and a winter 1988 dealer price list. Note that both the FT-2 Dynamic Filte...

The game-changing Marshall Guv’nor guitar effects pedal was actually kicking around the leading English guitar shops from autumn 1988 (Ch...

Whilst this ad for the Ibanez Soundtank guitar effects pedals was published in 1992, and introduced six new additions to the range, the S...

Let me start with a question… What was the first integrated, programmable multi-effects unit for the guitar?… Easy: it was the Boss ME-5 ...

UPDATE: DOWNLOAD NOTICE The software documented on this page is no longer available from this, its original release venue. It was hotli...

Whilst the Boss ME-5 guitar multi-effects unit has served me perfectly well since autumn 1988 when I acquired it brand new, I’ve built up...