Hello everyone and welcome to this week's article!
Today we are publishing a new article done by our collaborator Edoardo del Principe, and it is a humoristic take on the issue of the "stompbox addiction".
I hope you like it!
Most
of guitarists suffer a serious illness called “stompbox addiction”
which causes tons of dollars wasted in boutique pedals with nice
finishes and 40 knobs. Even the poorest guitarist with this addiction
has at least 10 Behringer pedals just to have a big pedalboard. I
have mercy for them and I don’t want new guitarists to fall into
this sick world, therefore this is the guide to not fall into “pedals
addiction”!
The
first and more important step is “prevention”. To do that you
need to understand who you are.
A
young teenage guitarist which is studying guitar: your
eyes are full of hope and you are already dreaming to play as Steve
Vai but your tone sucks and your 15watt combo can’t help you. Your
solution is a basic multi effect as the Boss
ME25.
It has a preamp section which is useful to play without any amp, just
using the output “phones” and connecting your multieffect to your
headphones you can practice for hours without being stricken by your
mom’s slipper. The Boss ME25 has everything you need and connecting
it to your pc and downloading specific softwares you can find
literally hundres of patches to sounds like AC/DC, Metallica, Deep
Purple etc with FEW
CLICKS.
Boss Tone Central is the software to control your presets and patches
and it can give you a really good tone with no effort.
If
you are not into all these stuff and you just want to practice maybe
with your acustic guitar my best advice is the Boss RC 3. It’s a
looper and is really useful to learn to play over a drum track,
creating loops, learning solos etc. The Boss RC 3 is a really good
machine for every beginner guitaist and you’ll improve just using
it. I promise.
Someone
called me to play in a band, I’ve got just the Boss Metal Zone:
Stay
calm and don’t panic. I know you don’t want to fight against
feedbacks so before doing everything and going into pedal addiction
you must know what you really need. Are you being called to play in
Thrash Metal band or in a Folk Rock band? After this you maybe don’t
know if you need a Flanger or a Fuzz, so, my advice is to buy a sort
of “live pedalboard” as the Boss
ME70,
Line6
Pod Hd 500
or other similar stuff. You have full control about the pedal chain
and full control about every pedal in the chain: you’ll be able to
craft your own sound in detail. You can use it with an amp head just
putting off the preamp section and you’re ready to play every music
genre.
If
you are in one of these two categories following my advices you can
being immune to the “pedals addiction” because in you early years
of activity you tried every freakin’ type of pedal in the world so
you thirst of pedals is satifistied (for now).
I’m
practicing with my band but I want a better tone: Pedals
are not the solution to your problem. On Youtube you can find
thousands of video about how to improve your sound without spending a
dime Pedals are the last part of a long process of sound crafting
which starts at the beginning with the choice of your instrument and
your amplification. If you have saved money in your instruments and
amplification to put them into peadals you are following the wrong
path. In order to have the perfect tone in your mind you need first
of all a good instrument and give it voice with an amplification,
this is the core of your sound. Pedals are the icing on top of the a
cake. You need the right pedals, but if your cake is made almost
entirely of icing, your cake will sucks.
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