We will try to give a quick overview of the main types of guitar effects pedals. Here, in Part 1 we'll cover the basics.
We know there one million web sites that offer vision on this issue, but our experience, that are written by engineers, not musicians … manuals that read like microwave Instead of a useful resource … Anyway … we go.
Boost
I really can not milk more than a few lines of this issue. It's pretty cut and dry, boost pedal will signal a volume of Boost – or cut, depending on how you have set. Most boost pedals act as a master volume control that allows a fairly wide range of use.
Why do I need a boost pedal? To bring your guitar volume over the rest of the band for a solo, to drive your amp harder for food is a hotter signal to have a change of volume set at the press of a button.
Overdrive
When most guitarists talk about overdrive, are referring to the soft distortion 'caused by their tube amps when driven to the breaking point. Overdrive pedals are designed to either replicate this tone (with little success) or drive a tube amp into overdrive, creating tubes scream beyond what would normally be capable of dispensing with the moving wall volume.
Why do I need an overdrive pedal? Overdrive pedals can be used as a boost pedal so you can get the inherent benefits, will get something added to its robust tone of the distortion created by the pedal. Most have an overdrive pedal control give higher pitched tone configuration possibilities.
Distortion
Based on the above definition of overdrive, overdrive distortion is where leaves. In the world of rock guitar Van Halen and think beyond a clear example of distorted guitar tone. Distortion Pedals often emulate high-gain amplifiers that create thick walls of sound of small tube amps are not capable of creating. If you are lucky to have a great Marshall Mesa Boogie, Diezel or other monster amplifier to create the distortion may not need a distortion pedal. But for the rest of us, distortion pedals are crucial to the modern guitar tone.
Why do I need a distortion pedal? Want to be relevant, right? Even with the large amplifiers, such as those mentioned above, distortion pedals to play a key role in modern music. They offer the flexibility to boost and multipliers can not rival.
Fuzz
God bless Ike Turner and The Kinks. Both events reached a point of reference by using the Speaker tones abused. Ike fell to the street to walk on Sun Records to record Rocket 88, the Kinks reduce your speakers with knives or so the legends say. No matter how they got it, his tone changed the world. Some call it distortion, some call it fuzzy, however, seeing the progression of this damage speakers to the fuzz boxes built to emulate the tones, I think its safer to call what Turner and Davies created / encountered with lint.
Why I need a fuzz pedal? Yeah, like Hendrix, is not ya? In all honesty, the fuzz pedal is seeing a resurgence of popular music nowadays. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Muse and the White Stripes depend heavily on the classic designs in the latest releases.
Compressor
The job of a compressor to provide an even volume output. This makes the soft parts louder and the loud parts softer. Current music tone the guitar-driven country is using compression.
Why do you need a compressor? Improvement to maintain clarity during the playing low volume.
Modulation
Flanger
The first flanger effects have produced in the studio to play 2 belts, both playing the same sounds, while an engineer would slow down or speed up playback of a signal to deceive. This is how you could produce wooshing jet streams. The edge of the old school tape reels called the bridle.
Why do I need a flanger? A flanger offer a new color to the color palette. You can live with not one, but never some of the nuances of color of Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Rush or the world.
Phase shifter
The phase shifter bridges the gap between Flanger and Chorus. Phasers former were intended to recreate a Leslie rotating speaker. Phase shift over use can be heard throughout the first Van Halen album.
Why do I need a phase shifter? View Flangers answer.
Chorus
Chorus pedals split their signal into 2, modulates one of them to halt and detuning, and then mixed again with the original signal. The effect is supposed to sound like several guitarists playing the same thing at the same time, resulting in swelling in a huge sound, but I do not hear. You get a thicker more lush tone, but does not sound like a chorus of players for me.
Why do I need a chorus? Because Andy Summers uses one, and Paul Raven says … that should be good enough.
Tremolo
As a child, did you ever play with the volume knob on the TV or radio turning madly up and down? Yes? So you're a tremolo effect.
Why I need a tremolo pedal? 6 words for you: The Smiths "How Soon Is Now '
Delay
A delay of pedal creates a copy of an input signal and a bit of time delayed playback. You can use it to create a "slap back effects" (simple repetition) or echo (multiple repetitions). Who among us can not appreciate the use of edge digital and analog delay for the entire race U2S?
By Why do I need a delay pedal? View Flangers response.
Wah
A band pass filter variable frequency … Screw everything that you know what a wah wah is … his music porno! It's Hendrix! It Hammett. It Wylde. This is Slash.
Why do I need a wah wah? Do you really have to ask at this point?
Dennis Mollan is the founder of Pro Tone Pedals. With 20 years experience as a practicing guitarist coupled with his formal education in music theory and audio engineering Dennis has become a noted resource in all things rock guitar related. Pro Tone Pedals was founded in 2004 to provide hand built high quality guitar effects to modern hard rock players. In the four years following, the Dallas Texas based company has had the opportunity to work with some of the biggest names in modern rock music. Pro Tone Pedals have been on tour and in the studio with Velvet Revolver, Alice In Chains, Camp Freddy, Flickerstick, Ministry, Prong, Warrant, Poison, Overkill, Fear Factory, and the Cult.
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