If you’re a new guitar player trying to decide how to spend your limited gear budget, you might be considering an effects pedal but also have some concerns. A pedal can cost quite a bit, after all, and you want to know whether it’s a wise investment. That raises the question: How long do guitar …
Guitar pedals are an often-essential part of an electric guitarist’s equipment, and you might be wondering why anyone would want to remove the rubber feet. After all, they came like that, so shouldn’t we leave them be? That depends on how and where you intend to use your pedals. Say you do want to remove …
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Guitar effects pedals are a great way to expand your sonic horizons, but they can cost a lot, especially when you consider they’re mostly made with just a few dollars of electronic parts. That leads some to wonder: Is building your own guitar pedal worth it? In many cases, you can replicate an existing pedal …
If you have been playing guitar for any length of time, there is a good chance that you own a guitar pedal or two or have at least spent countless hours browsing online for your dream pedals that you want to buy. Guitar pedals are often an essential component of a guitar player’s gear. They …
One of the most important, but also most difficult, part of learning to play guitar is developing your own sound, something that for many players involves technique and tone, including things like effects. So if you want to use effects to explore new sounds, you might wonder: Can you use guitar pedals with any amp? …
From the beginning of guitar playing, people wanted to make a sound that was all their own. For some, that means one or more effects pedals, but with the rise of amps that can model nearly any sound and computer plugins that can reproduce vintage pedal effects, are guitar pedals obsolete? While there are more …
Traditional physical guitar pedals or virtual plugins- which should you choose? I own several pedals, and I utilize plugin software. In a perfect world, I don’t think you need to choose. There is no rule stating you have to use one or the other. Depending on the sound I am looking for when covering a …
If you’ve ever lusted after a piece of gear that was out of your price range, you already know that guitars, amps, pedals, and other kinds of effect and accessories can cost quite a bit. That might have made you wonder: Why are guitar pedals so expensive? A lot of factors go into determining the …
It’s a common story: you pick up a used guitar pedal and when you get it, the back plate has four squares of Velcro attached. The last player used the hook and loop fasteners to hold the pedal to a pedalboard, but if you don’t want that, how can you remove Velcro from guitar pedals? …
I can’t help but start by referencing one of my favorite nerd pickup lines of all time. In Frasier, the geeky Trekkie Noel purrs to his coworker Roz, “set phasers to stunning!” Alright, it’s a different kind of phaser- or is it? The two phasers have some strange overlap, especially when it comes to bass …
