HOW
TO BUY THE RIGHT PEDAL
At
this point of the article you are almost out of the pedal addiction,
you know in the bottom of your heart that all those pedalboards are
quite useless and
just a way to show how big the ego of that guitaris is.
You know your hands make the real difference and that is better to
put money into a solid instrument and a good amp and not into
boutique pedals. But you still need a freakin pedal. Well, this is
the guide.
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Take the best from what you have and improve your imagination. As said before maybe you don’t need a Reverb if your amp head has one, maybe you don’t need a distortion pedal too if the amp head sounds nice to your ears or at least try to have decent tone working on the knobs regulation before saying it’s crap.
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Go to one or more of your local shop instrument and try different kind of pedals / If you have a lazy ass try a multieffect of one of your friend to understand well how the various kind of pedals work alone and together.
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Project your pedalboard from the beginning in order to know how many and what kind of pedals you need.
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When you know what kind of pedal you need just start searching online all the features of the various brands. Maybe find some comparison video on youtube to understand better the differences and what they do.
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Try the pedal between your amp and your instrument, pedals don’t have ANY sound, they just modify the signal between the instrument and the amplification, so don’t trust just Youtube videos.
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Don’t buy the cheapest/don’t buy the most expensive. Saving money doesn’t mean you have to waste them into awful pedals.
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Buy with your ears, not with your eyes! No one cares if you have digital or analog pedals, or if they are built in Japan or Indonesia, no ones give a fuck! They must sound good to you.
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