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Guitar Effects Pedals - Guitar Effects Pedals take the sound from your electric guitar and route the signal into your guitar effects pedal or effects units. The guitar effects pedal then affects the sound going to your amplifier by adding guitar effects. The tone or pitch is modified before the signal reaches your guitar amp. Effects Pedals are sometimes referred to as Stomp Boxes. Guitar Effects Pedals include Distortion, Overdrive, Fuzz, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Wah Wah, Pitch Shifting, Octave, Digital Delay, Tape Delay, Reverb, Volume, Noise Gate, and many more. Guitar Effects Pedals have become popular due to their relative inexpensive nature as related to a high priced guitar amp with the same effects. A guitar amp with Certain Distortion or Delay may run in the thousands of dollars. Also Find: Guitar Effects Pedals Listed by Effect Type - Stomp Boxes (Information, Reviews, and Shopping Info)
While some guitar effects pedals are less than a hundred dollars others can cost in the hundreds. Guitar effects pedals are used by many professional guitarists that you may know of today. For example, Slash uses Wah Wah effects pedals on some of his solos. Eddie Van Halen uses the Phase 90 MXR effects pedal on his famous Eruption Solo on Van Halen I. Many guitarists try to emulate famous guitar sounds from their favorite bands. Guitar Effects Pedals allow you to at least get close to the sounds of your favorite bands and guitarists. Above we will list a number of Guitar Effects Pedals and explain a little about each of the Guitar Effects. Shop, buy, or read reviews on any guitar effects pedal of interest. Also try our new Date Your Guitar Pedal Page. Find guitar pedal dating and guitar pedal serial number information. Find Guitar Pedal Wiring and Manufacturers as well. How To Use a Guitar Effects Pedal? How To Hook Up A Guitar Effects Pedal or Unit - The great thing about added guitar effects to your sound is the ease of use. They are relatively easy to hook up and operate. Most run on 9 volt batteries or 9V adapters. The adapters are usually sold separately, but they are relatively inexpensive. How to hook up your guitar effects pedal unit?
Linking Guitar Effects Unit in a Chain - You can also link many guitar effects boxes in a chain to have more than one effects sound going at a time. The have smaller cables for linking pedals at most guitar shops. Basically, follow the instructions above but link the pedals so that the beginning of the chains of pedals hooks from the guitar to the input of the pedal. The end of the chain of pedals should have a chord going from the output of the last pedal to the guitar amp input jack. If your chain of effects is not working check all your connection and make sure your chords work. How to Use A Guitar Effects Pedal or Stomp Box? Once you have your Stomp Box hooked up (See Instructions above) your now ready to use the effect. Turn on your amp and hook up your guitar into your effects chain. Stomp on the Effects Pedal and it should start to affect your sound depending on what type of effect your using. Adjust any controls on the stomp box to further affect the sound. Most pedals have a depth setting that allow you to adjust sound tone or pitch. One note if you using a wah wah pedal you keep depressing and letting up on the pedal to get the wah effect. Also, Talk box and some other effects have specific ways of using them that we will discuss more in those particular guitar pedal sections.
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