electric guitar pedal help?

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electric guitar pedal help?

Answer 1

1. musiciansfriend.com ... this will show you products and their prices....



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_pedals



that one will explain a few things for you, with added links.





2. are you talking individual pedals, or multieffects processors? I will check back and edit this answer

3. usually, no. Although, tube amps usually dont respond to well with the multi effects processors, such as a digitech rp series, pod, or any modeling processors.



Individual pedals usually are only one effect. Such as distortion, overdrive, reverb, delay, chorus. One effect per pedal. Some of the multi-effects, like a Digitech RP200, that has all of the above in it. Most of them you can edit to your liking, and even have different amp models that they are supposed to emulate.



Personally, im not a big fan of any type of the floor "multi-effects" units, where there all combined into one unit. Most of the factory presets are to processed in sounds. And some of them take a lot of knowledge to go in and "tweak" or edit the various parameters. They are also very inconsistent from preset to preset in output volume.

A single effect pedal or "stompbox", those are very easy to change the sound of. The knobs are right on the top of the pedal, and all ya have to do is reach down and turn it! No menus to scroll through!



Good luck!

Answer 2

A guitar pedal simply changes the sound of the guitar. There are hundreds and hundreds of pedals out there on the market today, and pretty much every guitar player has a preference as to what pedals they like and which ones they don't. Some pedals sound great with some amplifiers and guitars, others sound horrible, it's up to the guitar player to figure out what they want. With all the advancements in technology, pedals have gotten much better in both sound and construction. There are many different effects out there, including delay, reverb, overdrive/distortion, chorus, phasers, flangers, and numerous others. There are some pedals which combine different effects together, the MXR "Blue Box" is an example of this. In short, the pedal merely changes the sound of the guitar to make it sound better or differe

Answer 3

http://media.bossus.com/interactive/vpb.html



that's the BOSS link for their pedal board think.

i've tried several different pedal brands, and i've come to love BOSS. they sound great and they're durable.

thanks to buying and re selling on ebay, i've owned

DS-1 Distortion

DS-2 Turbo Distortion

MD-2 Mega Distortion

MT-2 Metal Zone

OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion

DD-6 digital delay

BF-3 Flanger

CE-5 Chorus Ensemble

CH-1 Super Chorus

PH-3 Phase Shifter

OC-3 Super Octave

CS-3 compressor/sustainer



some i liked, some i didn't. my favorite is the DD-6.

If you mess around with that link above, you'll notice they only let you put the pedals in a certain order. it does effect your sound sometimes if you put your pedals in a certain way.



Sound 1: Guitar->Distortion->delay-->phase shifter



Sound 2(i don't like this): guitar-->distortion-->phase shifter--> delay



This is hard to understand til you hear it. in sound 1, the phase shifter causes your delay to have a flange like sound. so the delay sounds like it's going up and down in a wave.

in sound 2, when you "delay the phase", it doesn't sound like one wave, it's broken up. try it in a music store.

if you're wondering about multi effect processors, totally disregard everything i just said.



after much fiddling about, i prefer my guitar to do this kind of pedal set up



Guitar --> Compressor/Sustainer --> Distortion -->Delay --> Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, or wah --> extra Delay pedal when i have it ---> amp.



but them i came across a marshall amp... and just went guitar--> amp. that distortion just rocks.



oh, don't bother with pedals if you have a small amp like a Peavey blazer 158 (8 inch speaker). you won't hear to real quality of the pedal.



i don't like multi effect pedals. if you go to live shows, you'll notice most guitarists use a bunch of pedals, not a multieffect board.

Answer 4

Zoom G1 series pedals are really cool...and they sound great.

Answer 5

1. Any of the large retailers will have a pretty comprehensive collection of effects pedals. These include



guitarcenter.com

sweetwater.com

musiciansfriend.com

samash.com



and lots of others.



If you want to know what they sound like, lots of the manufacturers of these pedals (some big ones are Boss/Roland, Digitech, DOD, Ibanez, Electro-Harmonix, Danelectro, MXR) have streaming audio samples on their websites, but really the best thing you can do is walk into a guitar shop and ask the salesperson to plug you into one of those giant floor-model pedal boards with 30 or so pedals hooked up, and play with each one.





2. It's EXTREMELY subjective about how these things sound, and what you would find useful, but I would suggest finishing step 1 and then deciding how much money you have to spend and how many different sounds you want to be able to make and how often.



A frequent complaint about the digital all-in-one pedals is that they can sound cold. This is because digital processors use programmed algorithms to achieve their effects, and until really recently they weren't very good. I personally have about 20 of the more 'classic' of the transistor pedals, among them an Ibanez Tubescreamer and a Boss Tremolo and Auto-Wah and an MXR Phase 90, and I swap them out depending on the situation (for example, a lot of the subtlety of an EQ pedal will probably be unnoticed through a really big PA).



And some people will tell you that using pedals isn't for beginners, but that's subjective as well, and depends a lot on what you mean by 'beginner.' Beginner to pedals? Certainly a player like the Edge treats his pedals a lot like an instrument, and there's a case to be made for learning how to use the guitar and pedal simultaneously. What kind of music do you want to learn to play? There's lots of sites where geeks write down the pedals your favorite players use so you can research (here's my guitar player's: http://guitargeek.com/rigview/637/) .



3. Wow, you're on your own with this one. Your guitar can be a fashion statement as much as an instrument, and that goes for your amp as well. Lots of modern metal guys play super-loud amps but old-school guys like me prefer the warmth of a tube amp. Before there were distortion pedals, this effect was achieved naturally by just turning the volume all the way up. The loudest-SOUNDING amp I have is a Matchless that's only 30 watts.



I should note also that more recently amp 'modeling,' where a computer synthesizes the sound of lots of different amps, is becoming incredibly realistic. These are available as an actual amplifier, a pedal, or a computer program, and some of them have effects built in as well. The real tube amps can be super-expensive and for a lot of people the actual difference in sound quality isn't worth the price.

Answer 6

Just google 'BOSS'. They show the various pedals and how each sound. You just click on each pedal. Pretty cool site to offer this.

You can play any pedal with any guitar or amp. The secret is the the basic quality of the amp. If the amp is super clean, the effects will have a super clean sound.



If the amp is fuzzy and you play a distortion pedal thru it, expects a really distorted, unpleasant sound.



Good Luck.

Answer 7

1. Guitarcenter.com



2. Danelectro FAB pedals, only $15 bucks each.



3. No.





These are great pedals for beginners. I have been playing for a year and I have 4 of these pedals. Very good for you money.

Answer 8

1) guitar center



2) pedals arent for beginners. so there isnt a good system. and they arent calle dsystems, tehy are pedal boards and multi fx pedals. digitech makes a solid cheap multifx if you really want



3) thats the dumbest question ever. no

Answer 9

Do you mean like a wah wah? You don't start using them when you're first learning to play.