Sunday 9 January 2011

Pedal To Play Metal - With Guitar Multi-Effects

By Jayden A. Read


You've probably heard or, if you play, know about the many effects pedals that so many amateur and professional guitar players use to acquire certain sounds when they play, but what you might not know too much about is the multi-effects pedal.

If you want to be able to play like the professionals do, then you should definitely consider a multi-effect pedal. Provided you've learnt to play the guitar, you can begin experimenting straight away with a multi-effect pedal to define your own sound - or replicate the sounds that made you fall in love with the guitar.

The pedal does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, if you'll pardon the expression. It isn't specific to any particular effect, buy gives the player a wide range of effects to accompany or enhance their own sounds - improving on what people hear from what they play (even if you are already very good).

Many multi-effects pedals have the ability to produce a beat, and even "tap in" your beat after selecting from a range of percussion effects - it sounds like you you're playing in a band when you may be playing on your own. Other notable settings include combining distortion effects with delay, feedback, clipping, wah-wah and flanger etc. The main selling point with multi-effect pedals is that they are so versatile that you probably won't become bored of it, unless you're bored of playing the guitar (in which case, this subject and even this article, isn't for you).

When you have a definitive shopping list of effects, you'll no doubt have a particular multi-effect pedal in mind. If you don't, try looking at online product reviews to see what people think of various models. Once you've done this, you could use the reviews to judge exactly what you want to spend (and maybe don't want to spend) on your desired model.




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