Boss 3 for 2 Offer on Compact Pedals until June 30th in Roland Planet Stores The Boss 3 for 2 offer is back for a very limited time! Buy two Boss compact pedals from a Roland Planet Store, and we’ll give you a third completely free. With festival season upon us,…
Alex Hutchings recently hooked up with Guitarist Magazine, showing how he uses a Boss Loop Station Pedal to get super-creative Guitar virtuoso Alex Hutchings has been a long-time advocate of Boss Loop Station Pedals even helping to develop some of the newest looping pedals from Boss. This makes him a…
Back in the mid-seventies, the RE-201 Space Echo unleashed a sound that came straight from outer space. This is its story… By Jim Bybee Over the years, Roland has created a significant number of products that have gone on to become legendary. One of the earliest examples is the Roland…
Advice on how to line up your effects pedals with the goal of helping you get your rig sounding just right By Roland US So you decided to play electric guitar. Once you get a guitar and an amp, the next step is to explore effects. Effects pedals can be…
Bernie Marsden is part of the rock aristocracy. In a 40-year career he’s played guitar for a host of important outfits, including Wild Turkey, Babe Ruth and of course Whitesnake. He even turned down the offer to join Paul McCartney’s supergroup Wings. With stats like these, Bernie Marsden is an…
Recording guitar used to be such a simple affair – either use a 4-track at home or head to your local studio to crank up some amps. Fast forward 30 years and you have the power to record a pro-sounding album in your shed! There’s just one problem though –…
Issue four of PowerOn, Roland’s music magazine for the iPad and iPhone is now on the App Store. This issue includes interviews with Alt-J, Whitesnake’s Bernie Marsden, Paul Kodish from DJ Fresh Live and Charlie Prince who has played keys for Rhianna and John Meyer. We also examine recent trends…
Enter before 30th May for a chance to win an ST-2 Power Stack! Recently we’ve been thrilled to spend time with Gallows’ guitarist and principle songwriter, Lags. Apart from filming some great videos with him, we also got Lags to kindly sign one of his favourite Boss pedals, a new…
The Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer provides guitarists with an innovative fusion of guitar synthesis and powerful COSM guitar modelling. Using newly developed pitch-detection technology, the GR-55 has unparalleled tracking speed and accuracy making it able to capture even the fastest fret-board acrobatics. On board the pedal you will find hundreds of world-class virtual instruments…
Paul White, editor-in-chief of the esteemed Sound on Sound magazine looks at some practical applications of guitar synthesis (hint: it’s not about playing drums on your guitar) The GR-55 combines two of my favourite Roland guitar technologies in a pedal format specifically designed not to intimidate the musician and I…
It’s always great to see bands cross over when they really deserve it. And when Alt J won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize last year it catapulted them into the hearts of the public and made their dreamy synth-studded album, Awesome Wave, one of the essential records of 2012. Since then…
Perfect distortion across your guitar’s entire range What is it? The Boss DA-2 Adaptive Distortion compact pedal gives you consistent, punchy distortion right across your guitar’s range. It does this with a new technology called MDP (or Multi-Dimensional Processing). How does it work? The MDP technology in the DA-2 works…