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Guitar Effects Pedalboard
Plug in your guitar and play through a pedalboard in your browser: noise gate, compressor, overdrive, EQ, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, wah, delay, and reverb, in any order, with the latency measured and recording built in.
Guitar Effects Pedalboard: Your guitar's signal goes through a chain of effects running in your browser with Web Audio: a noise gate, a compressor, overdrive from a soft-clipping curve, a three-band EQ, modulation effects built from delays, all-pass filters, and oscillators, a wah that sweeps a band-pass filter, a feedback delay, and a reverb generated without any recorded room. The browser's voice processing (noise suppression, echo cancellation, automatic gain) is turned off so the guitar sounds natural. The page shows the latency the browser reports and can measure the real round trip. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
- Category
- Everyday tools
- Runs
- In your browser
- Cost
- Free · no sign-up
- Availability
- Ready to use
Runs entirely in your browser
Wear headphones. With speakers, the microphone picks up the processed sound and can howl.
The signal runs from the top of the list to the bottom; drag pedals or use the arrows to change the order. The browser's noise suppression, echo cancellation, and automatic gain are switched off so the guitar sounds as it is. Everything runs on your device; nothing is uploaded.
Putting pedals in order
The usual order is dynamics, then gain, then modulation, then time: gate and compressor first, then wah and overdrive, then EQ, chorus, flanger, phaser, and tremolo, and finally delay and reverb. Drive before modulation keeps the distortion smooth; delay and reverb last keep their echoes clean instead of distorting them.
Rules are there to be broken. A wah after the drive sounds more vocal, and reverb before the drive gives a wall of noise some players love. Drag the pedals and listen.
Tune first
Effects exaggerate tuning problems, especially with distortion. Tune with the guitar tuner before you start, and practise riffs against the metronome. Without a guitar to hand, the online guitar plays chords in the browser.
How to use it
- Connect your guitar through an audio interface (or use a microphone), put on wired headphones, and press Start.
- Switch pedals on, set their controls, and drag them into the order you want, or start from a preset.
- Record what you play, and copy a link to share your board.
Privacy & limitations
The sound is processed on your device and never uploaded. Recordings are saved straight to your downloads.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I connect my guitar?
Use a USB audio interface with an instrument input, choose it as the microphone when the browser asks, and listen through wired headphones plugged into the interface or the computer. A laptop microphone near an acoustic guitar also works, with more latency and less clarity.
Why is there a delay between playing and hearing?
Every audio system adds latency: the interface, the operating system, and the browser all buffer sound. Under about 10 to 15 milliseconds feels immediate. Bluetooth headphones add 100 milliseconds or more, which makes playing impossible, so always use wired ones.
How is the latency measured?
The test plays a short click through your speakers and times how long it takes to come back through the input. That includes everything the guitar signal goes through, so it is the honest number; it needs the speakers on and audible to the input, so take your headphones off for the test.
Why does it howl?
If the processed sound comes out of speakers near the microphone, it is picked up again and feeds back. Use headphones, or turn the volume down.
Free tool · runs in your browser · no account required