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Guitar Pedals and Effects
Guitar Effects While newbies tend to learn, they are likely to get confused by a lot of technical and foreign language terms.
In this article, we will explain to you what are guitar effects and which one is useful. There are 2 types of device groups for Guitar Effects. Analogue ones are called “Pedal” (stompbox) and digital ones are called Processor. You don’t necessarily need these instruments to play the guitar today.
Now, those who know the business seem to say, “Oh, is it okay? There are many programs that simulate the properties of effects tools. You can examine how the Guitar Rig and Amplitube programs, which are the most popular of these programs, work and their successes.
However, no matter what, it cannot replace real Guitar Effect instruments, namely Pedal and Processor.
In digital presses, the analogue signal from the guitar is processed by converting it to digital data. Boss Multi-Effects, one of the most known and quality brands, is my favourite.
Analogue pedals, as the name suggests, process the analogue signal as it is. It does not do any digital conversion. Therefore, more natural tones are obtained from analogue pedals and accordingly, they are more preferred by professional guitarists. Analog pedals always have 1 effect and when it comes between the guitar and the amp, it changes the audio signal according to its own characteristics and transmits it to the amp.
In Digital Processors, on the other hand, “Multi-Effects Processor” has 100s of effects.
So what do these effects mean?
Drive/Distortion Effects:
It is the effect that actually distorts the sound. It is usually used in Rock & Metal music. Amps in those days were not as powerful as they are now. As the guitarists turned up the volume, the amp would start to sound distorted. It may sound funny now, but back then, companies invested and spent money to fix this distorted sound.
But the best guitarist in the world, and I think so, when our brother Jimi Hendrix started making music with these distorted tones, he became very popular and all the musicians spent time developing this tone.
Fuzz Effect
The Fuzz effect is based on the same principle as the Distortion effect, that is, its task is to distort the sound. However, since the output signal is different from the Distortion, it gets a more shrill tone.
I can say that it works better when you’re soloing rather than chords.
Because when playing chords, all the sounds are mixed together.
Chorus Effect
It adds an effect to the tone as if you were in a chorus with multiple people playing the same melody.
Flanger Effect
The flanging effect is achieved if the delay of the sound is kept up to 5-15 milliseconds or 10 milliseconds. This effect can be termed as the flying of the sound or the sound produced by a speaker rotating around its axis. They work similarly to the phasers described earlier. The signal from the guitar is split into two, as in a delay effect, and one part is delayed. This delayed signal and the normal signal are superimposed and sent to the output.
Thus, a slow-played version of the same music is superimposed by a delay method.
Phaser Effect
Phaser It can be defined as a phase shifter. It is very similar to the Flanger effect. It has fuller and smoother transitions than the flanger, depending on the way it affects the frequencies it raises and lowers. The biggest advantage of the Phaser effect is that it takes a plain sound and makes it rich. Using this feature, a rotating speaker effect can also be created.
Delay Effect
The sound coming out of the guitar is heard over and over again with a delay according to the time and number you set on the pedal.
Although analogue circuits are cheaper, they produce lower quality sounds than digital ones because they produce louder sounds.
Reverb Effect
With this effect, you can tune your guitar in an empty room, an empty hall, an empty opera house, etc. It is in charge of adding depth and ambience as if playing.
I like it very much, it has a nice atmosphere in clean tones.
Wah-Wah Pedal
The first example of Wah-wah is the pedal called Cry Baby, which was produced in the 1960s, which is still very popular today. It’s like the sound you make when you open and close your mouth. There are varieties of Wah Pedal that adjust automatically. In other words, it gives this effect in a certain signal range.
The most used example in our country is the Athena group. (my expense regiment)
Compressor
It is an instrument that balances the sound level. If the bass sounds too high and the trebles too low while playing the guitar, the compressor takes over this balancing job. You may come across the name of the sustainer, do not confuse it. You can balance the sound by bringing the high and low frequencies closer together.
The most important point to consider when using this effect is to reduce or increase the amount of compression. If the amount of compression is increased, the high and low levels will be closer together, but the volume will be lower. For this reason, most of them also have a volume setting on them.
Noise Gate
It is in charge of blocking unwanted frequency sounds such as bottom noise, squeaking, humming coming into your ear at the adjusted rate.
From the quality of the cables to the quality of the amp, especially when you connect many effective instruments, you will hear a low noise when you do not play the guitar. This tool is cutting it.
