Guitar Effects

Effects and Placement
Many guitarist have a few pedals, many often have enough pedals to acquire the need for a pedal board. Knowing how these effects interact with one another, is crucial in order to get that "Holy Grail" tone that we all hear in our heads. After all each pedal will affect other pedals down the chain. Im not saying that there is one single specific setup that will work best for everyone. That just cant be, considering tone is subjective but there are some common guidelines on what .sounds good and what sounds bad.






A good signal chain may go as follows:

| Compression
| Wah
| Distortion/Overdrive
| EQ
| Chorus/Flanger
| NoiseGate
| PitchShifter/Harmonizer
| Volume Pedal
| Delay
| Digital Reverb
| Cranked Marshall


There are quite a few different categories or types of effects and each pedal can be broken down into one of these categories. These categories include:

- Signal Conditioners/Equalization
- Time Based Effects
- Ambient Effects
- Other

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