A Beginner's Guide To Guitar Effects Pedals...Effect Types Explained!
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Published 2019-02-21
Don't know an Echo from an Octaver? Your Flange from your Big Muff? In this beginner's guide to guitar effects pedal, Sam explains and takes a listen to most of the different "types" of effects, to help you get started on your guitar effects odyssey! This is a complete novices guide to effects pedals including sound examples - so grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!
Skip to each section of this video:
00:00 - Beginners Guide To Guitar Effects Pedals
01:44 - Single Pedals vs Multi Effects
04:00 - Dynamic Effects Explained (Compressor, EQ, Boost & Volume)
08:52 - Pitch Effects Explained (Octavers, Pitch Shifters & Harmonisers)
12:39 - Drive Pedals Explained (Including difference between Overdrive, Distortion & Fuzz)
18:36 - Modulation Effects Explained (Chorus, Flange, Phaser etc)
23:34 - Delays & Echo Pedals Explained
28:42 - Reverb Pedals Explained
33:02 - Wah Pedals Explained
Outro 36:09
For most of the examples in this we're using Landlord FX effects pedals, as they sound great but are very affordable, the perfect starting point for getting into stomp boxes...check out the full range here: www.pmtonline.co.uk/brands/landlord-fx
Other links mentioned in this video...
How To Set Up Your Pedalboard: • How To Set Up Your Pedalboard in 5 Mi...
Top 7 Tuners: • Top 7 Best Guitar Tuners...Pedal or C...
Loopers & How To Loop: • How To Loop - Looping Tips & Gear Guide
Read more: www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2017/10/05/beginners-guid…
Shop all guitar effects pedals: www.pmtonline.co.uk/products/guitar/pedalsandeffec…
If you're new to the world of electric guitars and finding the thousands of effects pedals available a little bit daunting or confusing, this beginners guide should hopefully make the different genres of effect types a little easier to understand. Within this video we look at the pros and cons of both individual pedals and multi-fx units, explain signal chains and pedal placement, look at the differences between delays, echo and reverbs and answer questions such as "what is an effects loop?". We hope you find this guide useful, you can try out any of the pedals that Sam's using here for yourself at your local Professional Music Technology.
Leave any pedal based questions in the comments and we'll do our best to answer them!
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All Comments (21)
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This might be the best rundown of pedal types that I've seen on youtube. Lots of great info and examples of all the sounds. Most vids of this type rush through and leave out crucial information or assume we already know. I learned something and it was fun, too!
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Man as an ABSOLUTE beginner, this is super helpful, thanks a lot.
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Finally someone acknowledging us guitar noobs
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I feel like I’m watching an animal planet documentary but with guitar pedals as the subject instead.
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Watching this because my musician boyfriend is building up his pedal board (He uses multi-effects before), and I want to understand, so I would know what to buy for him as a gift. hehe. UPDATE: I GOT CAUGHT! Lol. I'm still getting notifications from this comment and my bf saw it. -_- But yeah, we watched this together and now I know he needs a reverb. Haha.
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11:33 This is a micro Pog moment.
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As an absolute begginer who has no pedals or even an amp whatsoever, this is probably the best video i've ever watched explaining these pedals, more important than that, showing the difference that they make on the sound. Thank you so much :3
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Just looking those pedals make me feel addicted to them even though I've never touched an electric guitar in my life
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As a decades-long classical guitarist, just getting into this area, I am completely ignorant and overwhelmed by the vast array of pedals. Thanks for the video. You've clarified SO much. Well put together and a very good overview of the broad categories and types of pedals. Thanks!
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I feel like I just unlocked a whole world of music-making I didn't understand before after watching this video. With all the different sounds you showed I could recall examples where I heard that effect in songs & movies & it had me like OOooooohhhhh that's where that sound comes from! :D THANK YOU!!
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21:02 he tries to do vibrato when using a vibrato pedal. much respect
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just learnt in 35 mins what ive been trying to figure out for months! thank you!
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18:15 me every day after school for literally no reason, not making myself any better of a guitarist
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We all knew he was gonna play come as you are with the chorus
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Y'all just made the best intro to pedals video I've ever seen. Everything is presented simply and accurately. Anybody who needs a rundown on what pedals sound like what and where they go should watch this. Respek.
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Just got a marshall half stack, a Hendrix fuzz face and a Hendrix Wah pedal... Now I just need to get Jimis Hands and I'll be good to go.
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Ive actually been using a multi-effect pedal for years, and never really understood what everything meant. The way you explain, breakdown, categorise and even demo every single effect is perfect! Clearly and easily explained, been looking for a video like this for ages! thank you!
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I really appreciate you using famous guitar riffs when showcasing the pedals. I'm usually not sharp enough to figure out when an artist used a specific effect and this was honestly really helpful. Thank you
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I almost never comment but that was a great video Sam. You played so many classic licks and made them all sound good using some affordable pedals and an inexpensive amp.
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im a huge fan of rock music so learning about how those effect pedals work is very interesting to me
