pedals

[magnus]

anyone want to teach me about guitar pedals? Naturally I didn't get that far on guitar and now I'm looking to apply this idea to my playings on sax.

I've found a good couple of articles that's showing me the basics - what I figured a lot of this was anyway. There are distortion pedals, eq pedals to locally change eq for different tonal qualities, and I'm real interested in the harmonizer if that's possible in a compact floor pedal, sounds good for what I'm wanting. But I'm looking for someone who doesn't mind answering questions and having the ability to teach somebody that too many people say knows everything. See, next time someone says that, you can say "hell yeah, I'm the one that topped him off."

 

[magnus]

nobody? C'mon. Y'all are all talk anyway.

 

[WilliamJ]

my best friend is a killer guitar player.......he likes digitechs equipment......they have a killer board that does just about every effect you can think of...go to Mars music

 

[magnus]

yeah, a lot of the sax players that play on pedals end up using a board - and one of the guitar players I play with does also. the others use modular shit, and analog. I want to stay analog. I also probably won't start out with much - nor need much - I'd like a harmonizer, a wah, a pair of eqs and maybe some distortion. The thing is, other than the wah, there's not much you can do with any of these as a soloist as a horn player. It gets old not far after it gets interesting.

Looking for examples of this (interesting, that is, not old)? Zappa - Chunga's revenge, Morphine - All Wrong. I'm sure there's plenty of Miles Davis inspired fusion that has the old effects, like the tape reverb and all that.

 

[LarryD]

mathmajors is a guitar man.

 

[magnus]

he ain't said nothin yet, so he can't be much of one

 

[Insidian]

I have a Digitech RP20, it's a digital processor, but the effects you can get with it are amazing. You can get anything from an old school tube-style amp sound to harmonizers to anything you can think of. It's also fully customizable. You can tweak out any of the 100 efects it already has any way you want, plus you can create a shitload of purely original sounds and effects. It's the greatest processor I have ever come across, and I have been playing the guitar for about 15 years now. It's definitley worth checking out and I highly recomend it. If you have any questions about it, just ask and I will answer them as best I can.

 

[Insidian]

I have a Digitech RP20, it's a digital processor, but the effects you can get with it are amazing. You can get anything from an old school tube-style amp sound to harmonizers to anything you can think of. It's also fully customizable. You can tweak out any of the 100 efects it already has any way you want, plus you can create a shitload of purely original sounds and effects. It's the greatest processor I have ever come across, and I have been playing the guitar for about 15 years now. It's definitley worth checking out and I highly recomend it. If you have any questions about it, just ask and I will answer them as best I can.

 

[magnus]

thanks. I'll check that out and let you know. Sounds interesting.