| If you are serious about the guitar then you | | | | type sound found on hundreds of songs. |
| may want to consider investing in guitar | | | | |
| effects. Guitar effects pedals come in lots | | | | Wah Pedals |
| of different shapes and sizes. Their main use | | | | |
| is to change the way your guitar sounds. | | | | Wah pedals are a great guitar effects pedal. |
| | | | Rather than just an on/off situation this is |
| There are thousands of different guitar | | | | an expression pedal. It is called a wah pedal |
| effects pedals to choose from some new some | | | | because literally, it makes your guitar sound |
| rare and old - some create sounds that alters | | | | as though it is saying "wah". This is great |
| your guitar sound so much it is almost | | | | for slow and fast lead playing and produces |
| unrecognisable as a guitar sound. | | | | some really great results. |
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| Guitar effects pedals come in many different | | | | Delay Pedals |
| formats. You can get he single effects units | | | | |
| - often called stomp boxes and chain them | | | | This adds an echo effect to your sound. Can |
| together or you can opt for a multi effects | | | | be used to layer multiple sounds or, more |
| unit that combines lots of effects in one | | | | commonly, and in my case, used to beef up |
| box. There are also other formats such as | | | | your lead sound. It is a subtle difference |
| rack mounted effects units and processors. | | | | that can make such a difference to your |
| | | | playing. |
| For the purpose of this article I am going to | | | | |
| illustrate a couple of the most commonly used | | | | Chorus Pedals |
| guitar effects pedals that I consider an | | | | |
| essential. I personally use these pedals. | | | | Another popular guitar pedal that adds depth |
| These can be easily chained together in | | | | to both your clean and distorted tone is the |
| whatever way you choose and changed to get | | | | chorus pedal. This thickens the sound by |
| the sound that you want from your guitar. | | | | doubling up notes in layers and altering |
| | | | delays in a very subtle way. |
| Distortion / overdrive pedals | | | | |
| | | | With guitar effects pedals there are massive |
| Whilst the above is in fact two separate | | | | differences in sound quality. Often the more |
| pedals the effect they produce are similar. I | | | | expensive a pedal is, the better it will be. |
| personally own a distortion pedal but tend to | | | | It is also very true, especially with the |
| use the amplifiers overdrive effect to get | | | | examples above, the older the pedal is the |
| the sound I want.. Basically they take your | | | | better quality sound it will produce. As with |
| clean sound and convert it to an overdriven | | | | most things guitar related, they don't |
| or distorted sound. This gives you a rock | | | | make things like they used to. |