Tone aka EQ — Lets you determine the treble content and modify the tone of the sound. Combined with guitar playing techniques such as palm muting and guitar harmonics, you can create wild sounds with this pedal. Chorus effects can make a single guitar sound like there are several guitars being played together at the same time. This results in a sound that is much fuller. On a typical chorus pedal, you would see the following:. Rate aka Speed — The rate refers to the speed at which the pitch variation takes place.
Play around with the knobs and hear for yourself how the effects changes. Lower settings are preferred for guitar rhythm playing. For clean plucking of strings, you may want to try a higher depth. A delayed sound is basically an echo effect which fades away over time. Imagine shouting at the top of a mountain and hearing the echos. With the proper use of delay, you can get really cool sounding music and loops. Time — Sets the time before the delayed sound is heard.
The typical values are from milliseconds to about 2 seconds. Be careful with this setting as it might throw your delayed sound off with the timing of the band. If you use very small values from milliseconds, you probably get a chorus like sound effect. The best gauge is to hear the sound and play it out for yourself. Feedback — This knob sets the number of repeats for the effect. I do not recommend setting this value very high unless you want your music to go into an endless loop of repeats.
Believe it or not, guitar effects pedals have an order. First off, you need to look over your stash. What kinds of pedals do you have? Single-note lead lines into tremolo and spring reverb sound especially haunting and a good baritone can even double as a regular bass — select the neck pickup and run it through a bass amp model to enhance the low-end.
When playing along with the original, recording a double-tracked part can be a less pressured performance. Replicate the initial take and pan the parts hard left and right to add width to a mix and create a natural space in the centre for solos and vocals. For a more creative approach, before you record the second pass, try switching pickup settings, tweaking pedals, changing the amp or even switching guitars.
Double or triple tracking in this way can add bite or thickness when tucked behind the main take, while pulling doubled parts in and out of the mix can enhance verses, choruses and middle-eights. Positive recording experiences also provide techniques, practical and emotional, to cope with sessions plagued with problems. Whatever makes you feel good will come through in the recording.
Dial up an OTT sound and splurge a crazed solo over your track, or see what noise can be coaxed from your guitar without playing a note. Sometimes invention can flourish when the pressure is off, and pop history is littered with happy accidents.
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Guides Essential Guides. By Robbie Stamp. The right interface In most cases a simple audio interface for your laptop, desktop or tablet is the best option for plugging in, as the less gear you need the more budget you have for other stuff: monitoring, cabling, other guitars. Good monitoring and low latency High-quality monitoring is vital for high-quality recording. Volume control From old favourites such as the various Palmer speaker simulators palmer-germany. Everybody Hertz Digital audio resolution breaks down into two components: sample rate and bit depth.
Kill your buzz Prior to recording, eliminate as much noise at source as possible. Level playing field Aim to record a clean signal, even if the source is pure filth. Right amount of wrong The theory behind gain staging is simple — run each stage with plenty of headroom before distortion and well above the noise floor — but sometimes you need to hear it go wrong to understand it. And programmable systems not only enable you to engage multiple pedals simultaneously, some also allow you to switch the order of the pedals in the signal chain, and a few offer stereo loops in addition to the standard mono variety.
Once you have everything set up nicely, I guarantee you will start playing with the pedal order. Moving things in and out of order is half the fun of effects pedals. You never know when an inspiring sound will appear, so I am all about experimentation. So there are the things to look out for when building your board.
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