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This week I am writing a review on one of my favorite Overdrive pedals: the Ethos Overdrive Pedal.

Today I am posting a review I wrote for Berklee’s Guitar Faculty newsletter, Open Position. I thought it would be nice to share it with a larger community of tone-seekers.

Every once in a while a pedal comes along that blows your mind because of the unbelievable value: Lately it’s the Electro-Harmonix Soul Food.

In my online course at Berklee Online: Funk/Rock R&B Soloing and in my instructional book, Funk R&B Guitar: Creative Solos, Grooves and Sounds, I talk about guitar sounds

Here’s a post to highlight a wah I recently added to my arsenal of tone generators. I love wah pedals! It is a big part of the retro-funky-R&B sound of the songs I write and sing.

In the long quest for tone, we often leave out the discussion on guitar picks. The question, “What kind of guitar pick do you use?”

One eye-opening revelation in the quest for tone happening to me back in the early ’90s: I was playing with a relatively popular Boston-based band called the Heavy Metal Horns.

Let’s talk about attack devices, or ways to get a string moving. I know it sounds too simple to be true, but this one post might be the difference between you and your signature sound!