guitar effects please
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Topic: guitar effects please
Posted By: floydian
Subject: guitar effects please
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 17:17
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Can someone help me with choosing the right guitar effects. I don't know which effect to play. I would like to have a similar sound to Latimer (Camel) for example. And which effect is the best for sustain your sound? Please help me, I am a beginner :( ------------- pink floyd |
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Posted By: radiognome3
Date Posted: May 08 2005 at 17:34
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Try a MXR DynaComp for a sustain pedal (there are other pedals by other manufacturers - I have experience with this one), or an archtop solid body, like a Les Paul, through a tube amp very (or fairly) loud. Your playing style can have a tremendous effect on sustain, as well. ------------- Vive Gong! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 15:43
| Get a Line 6 Pod - all the effects you need and then some! |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 05:11
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To sustain your sound u can try the compressor/sustainer CS3 BOSS, even if this effect is better on a clean channel...If you increase the gain you will also have more sustain. Try to cut the medium of your amp for a sharper sound... For a vintage sound fuzz and wah wah are the effects you must purchase... as certif1ed said the line6 pod is a cool gear because you have a huge range of effects in there... ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 04:31
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I recommend a KORG AXG1500, it's got a lot of the desired effects that most people want and is relatively cheap, too.
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 20:50
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you should just need a few - a phaser, flanger, chorus, digital delay,
overdrive, fuzz, compression, wah-wah. you should be able to get loads of vibe and expression into your playing with those. after that you can start looking into some more esoteric stuff like rotovibes, talk effects, leslie simulators, all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff. These days I just tend to use a phaser, a couple of overdrives, a wah-wah and a little delay now and then and a judicious amount of reverb. |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 21:02
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actually, remember that is you're going for a retro sound you should limit
yourself to a few classics maybe an Ibanez Tube Screamer, a Fuzz Face, a Dynacomp is good, a Crybaby wah, something like and MXR phase 90 or 120, rotovibe, that sort of thing, it what they used back in the day here's a good example, not quite from prog but close - from the liner notes of ELO's New World Record (1976) and Out of the Blue (1977): eventide harmonizer, mxr flanger, electronic mistress, systec flanger, roland space echo, musictronics octave divider, mutron 3m, maestro stage phaser, univox univibe, maestro phase shifter, maestro echoplex. a lot of these effects are no longer in production but second hand stores will often yield bargains. I can remember getting an elctronic mistress for about £20 years ago, which was subsequently stolen from my car so desirable did they become (there was an expensive stereo in the dash which was left behind so I know the thief was a muso!) You should be able to match most of these effects with modern equivalents though. |