just postin a thread to see what ur favorite effects are.

mine, probably,...either bassballs or big muff pi distortion

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my fave effects are wah,chorus and distortion which are all from my boss gt6

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besides distortion just the wah

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distortion is a given.. and it really shouldnt even count as an effect because alot of people don't even use cleans... and cleans shouldnt be an effect either.

my favorite pedals are.. the ibanez cf7 chorus/flanger and the digitech whammy xp.
the cf7 has a great flange and a great chorus, plus the whack'd mode gives me crazy and unique sounds on top of that.... so its one of those multi effect pedals that isnt really a multi effect pedal because its just one really versitile stompbox.
and the whammy xp is a similar situation as far as having several uses to one expresion type pedal...you get the high quality whammy/pitch shifter/octave shit like a whammy pedal... but then it also has 3 different types of wah or it can be used as a simple volume pedal. and then as an added bonus... a built in chromatic tuner.

so that right there is almost a dozen of my favorite effects in two high quality pedals.

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I cant pick between delay and flange, but i had both on my boss me-6, and now its broken

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a tuner or a noise surpressor

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I like delay alot.

Delay + Pitch Shifter + Pedal = Really errie shit.

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Probably, the same as what Darko mentioned. On the Peavey processor I had, it was called "Black Hole." It's basically, reverb, delay, chorus, flanger and pitch-shifter mixed in one. Sounds like your doing 2 to 3 things at once.

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I'm poor, I only have an Ibanez sustainer/compressor which I dont use. But I'm loking into gettinga wah soon.

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bluesbreaker and wah

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I like phase..... or chorus on clean.

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fangler

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do you mean flanger?

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Wah's good for funky blues stuff. Flanger and delay also good. But Darko knows a good effect when he hears one : Delay + Pitch Shifter. I use my gfx-5 to double my guitar half a step down (making dissonant tones) + reverb + delay + slow attack (violin) + crank up the gain for some feedback. Then I do some whammy bar dives and harmonics; spookshow! I also like the dissonant wah effect on "Emperor - He Who Sought The Fire", and that rapid tremolo effect (e.g. Obituary - Chopped In Half solo); can someone bloody tell me how to do this!? Do I need a backbender whammy bar thingy or is it an effect pedal?

Distortion + Reverb

delay

Distortion: Metal Zone + Compressor + Reverb

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wah, flange, delay, a bit of reverb for depth

compressor, delay, noise supressor,chorus, and reverb are my favorite effects
but thats pretty much most of them huh?

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t.c. electronics g major + marshall jmp 1 + rolls midibuddy
mmmmmmm.... midi....

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octave

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hahaha my guitarist has a Boss gt-6 there insane, amazing pedals..

anyway, my fav effects would be bass squeeze, bass chorus, and bass envelope filter, not forgetting an overdrive which comes from the lush ODB3 by boss.

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I have a few effect pedals which I hardly use.
I have some wah wah pedal.
A Boss Dynamic Wah AW-3
A Boss Digital Delay DD-5
Some Danelectro Flanger
And various Distortion pedals.

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BBE sonic maximizer and talent

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my favorite effects are delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, and wah.
and distortion of coarse

Guitar > Boss Mega Distortion > Amp

PS: Im gonna buy chorus and wah pedal.

The other guitarist in my band uses the BBE, it's fuckin sweet. If i was a rack man, i'd definitely wanna get one of those, but at the current time, i don't have the money to be a rack man, just my guitars into my boss ME-50 into my 5150II into my...WHAT?...i don't have a cab yet...damn it. But yeah the Boss ME-50 is pretty cool. Instead of it being a digital processor, it's just a bunch of stomps put together. I think chorus is my favorite effect besides the obvious distortion and wah. Chorus plus distortion is freaking sweet, thickens the sound up a lot.

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You should put that little \m/ thing in your sig. because you seem to put at the end of everyone of your posts.

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I kind of like typing it, I don't know why. Any excuse to give the bullhorns man. Hope it doesn't bother you.

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i hope you don't use that boss multi effect pedal for your dist.... because that would just be sad. but anyways, you don't have to be completely racked, alot of people i know use heads, but then they have small racks that consist of stuff like a powerconditioner, a tuner, a sonic maximizer... ect.
you could just pick up a bbe sonic maximizer used for pretty cheap and then put it in the fx loop of your head.

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Hell no i don't use it for distortion, i have a 5150II. When I play through my practice amps, I do use the overdrive to boost the amps' distortions though, cuz small combos never have enough. I need to get a real boost pedal though. I know i could have a small rack, I do want one (tuner, wireless, sonic maximizer, noise suppressor, and a few rack effects), but right now i need to buy a cab and finish doing some upgrades to my guitars, as well as pay for all the other lovely expenses in life.

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God, I hate Danelectro pedals...
They may be reasonably priced but they drain your tone. That is if you are using a distortion pedal WHICH I will be throwing out my window once I get my new amp

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Ya, Danos are some scary little shit boxes. I don't think I know anyone that likes even one of their pedals.

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i have a pastrami overdrive.... some kid just gave it to me like 4 years ago....real good paper-weight/doorstop.

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I created this mix of different effects that i liked.

It was flange, chorus, reverb. And I loved it, it sounded like water.

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I love that sound! Put a little delay on it and it's so beautiful. Actually if you can put two separate delays that's even better.

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one of the coolest sounds ever is two overlapping chorus pedals.

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My crybaby is my fav....

i own a digitech GNX3... my fav effect is probly rectify for for power chords and solo for well soloing... oh yeah and no wah, thats for untalented fucks who need a shit load of effects to sound decent...

You're fucking stupid.

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oh realy, well im not saying i dont enjoy wah pedals every once in a while, but crapy guitar players like kirk hammet that use it every fucking solo suck.

don't tell me you actually use the factory presets... it's bad enough you use the gnx3 for distortion, but factory presets are lame as hell....

you probably suck to bad to even know how to use a wah.... whether or not you like wahs or not you're an idiot if you think somebody has no talent because they use alot of effects. i think some people are godly for how well they work their fx: tom morello(rage against the machine/audioslave,radiohead,cephalic carnage,glassjaw,pushing up daisies, ect. i bet any of those guys could smoke your ass with or without effects...

effects are just another way of expanding the amounts of sounds you can get from an instrument... doing something more unique...

kirk hammet could probably teach you a thing or two about playing guitar... i don't like the guy, but that doesnt mean he "sucks".

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Micheal Amott uses a wah alot. Its cool how he uses it.

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Well actualy if you use a shit load of effects it does cover up alot of mistakes, if your good you dont need all those effects to sound good. i bet alot of those guys arnt nearly as good as you think expesualy when they dont have flange on top of wah on top of chorus on top of max distortion. what im saying is pretty much true, if you dont think so your one of the untalented idots im talking about (and i think you are because the guitarests you mentioned up there suck, have you ever heard a RATM solo? i havent.)

and about using the pre set effects, truth is im to fucking lazy to figure out how to use that thing, i figure the effects are there for a reason they must be good for somthing. oh but i guess you couldnt use them, you would have to pump on more distortion and effects to cover up your crapy playing.

The factory presets do suck on that thing. They are only demos and you are suppose to adjust the settings to your amp. Digatech will tell you that. How long have you had this thing?

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3 months... lol. i said i dont know shit about equipment.

sorry, but you're a fucking moron..... using effects doesnt just cover your ass when you make mistakes. hell, usually its harder to work alot of effects and make it sound good. effects can take you into a whole other realm of playing. most distortion period covers your ass when you make mistakes. but if you're good it doesnt matter.
you try and put a flange on top of a wah through a chorus with max distortion and make it sound good..... i bet you couldnt. because you arent good enough, but then you'd just talk shit on effects because you're to stupid and untalented to know how to make them sound good.

you think all those guitarist's suck?? you don't know shit about guitar do you?there is more to talent than solo's dude... one of these days you'll grow up and realize it. you might not like radio head,glass jaw, cephalic carnage, ratm, ect. but they do not suck, and i could list many more guitarist that use alot of effects that rock.

you've never heard tom morello solo's? well... he certaintly does "solo" it just might be different from the generic shredding a minor scale that you probably think is what makes guitarists good, but they take lots of talent to do and he makes them sound cool, because he's good enough to make complicated effect combinations work.
lets just use "the battle of los angeles" for an example
track 1..."testify".... 2m40s into the song...
track 2..."guerrila radio".... 2m30
track 3..."calm like a bomb"....3m30s.
track 4..."mic check"... 2m10s(no those are not turntables, that's his guitar, i've seen him do it and i was amazed)
track 5..."sleep now in the fire"... 2m45s
track 6..."born of a broken man"... not much of a "solo" part really....
track 7..."born as ghosts"...2m5s
track 8..."maria"... 2m55s
track 9..."voice of the voiceless"...no real solo.
track 10..."new millennium homes"... 2m55s
track 11..."ashes in the fall"... 2m45s
track 12..."war within a breath"... no real solo.

so as you can see 9 out of 12 songs on one cd have "solos"....

have a nice day

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Damn im sorry, i didnt know there were nu-metal lovers in these forums. i usualy take for granted that people think 1 fingered power chords with heavy effects take no talent to play... and i am sorry for asuming you suck, i have no clue how you play, but you also have no clue how i play. i happend to be a fairly decent classical, rock, blues, and metal guitar player. i know playing solos isnt the only thing that shows your talented, but i also know that power chords dont take much talent to play. thats why i asumed that if your a metal player and you dont play solos your not any good. and as for handling lots of effects, its called noise gate. it eliminates all sound thats less then the specified Decibels. it makes handling effects extremely easy. im sure the guitarest for RATM uses somthing of that sort if he uses lots of effects, if you dont youll get more feedback then anyone can handle.

um... sorry dude but nu metal doesnt really use alot of effects usually....
ratm,radiohead,glass jaw,pushing up daisies,finger 11, ect. are not nu metal so i don't see why you are even mentioning it.... and they do not just play one finger powerchords.
trust me, i'm not a nu metal kinda guy... i'm just not an idiot that talks shit on things like effects when i don't know what i'm talking about.... a noise suppressor/gate doesnt make it so effects sound good... you can't just slop some effects together and then put a gate in there and think it will fix your poor abilities to use fx. feedback isnt exatcly a huge problem with fx... it's more how you dial in the sounds... it can make it difficult to work around...like:
how long of a delay you're using?
what kind of delay?
would a harmonizer sound cool there?
maybe a chorus would add a smooth vibe to this solo
a cool tremelo effect for would sound cool for this intro
when i play individual note with this flange/auto wah setup it sounds cool but most chords sound like ass with it
this filter combination makes my guitar sound like water
the panning in my stereo rig sounds freaking crazy
ect.
if you use them correctly they can be great.
if you want to use fx and be any good then you have to think about all that shit... but it's worth it.

but no, just shred a minor scale or a random mode and tell me i'm a talentless loser who uses effects to "cover my ass" when i make mistakes...
not that anything's wrong or talentless about shredding, but it's been done before and some people don't want to sound like everybody else so we experiment with things like fx.

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im sure their is an "art" in puting effects together and making some cool sounds. but realy its nothing new, listen to jimi hendrix's star spankled banner, he's the master of crazy sounds and ill guarantee you he didnt have many effects to work with. you dont need to have all kinds of effects to play awsome sounding shit.

it depends on the kind of awsome sounding shit.... you can't do a wah sound with out a wah... you can't do a phaser sound without a phasher, you can't do delay with out some sort of device giving you a delay effect.
jimi is pretty good with crazy sounds, not the master, but he had some effects to work with.
not alot of effects are generally "new", but they expand the amount of sounds you're able to acheive.... so in a way it can be something new and origional. it just depends on if you suck at it or not.

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meoooow

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my dunlop 535Q wah and my digitech whammy.

My band mixes death and thrash metal with softer more melodic moments, so for those soft moments i normally play clean with chorus and a phaser, but for the heavy parts just distortion.

*I JUST REALIZED THIS IS MY 30TH POST! THAT MEANS I'M A METALHEAD AND NOT A JUNIOR METALHEAD (though it didn't matter; I don't need to prove my metalness to anyone)! YEAH!

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he doesnt use it in every solo. its just that the only song you have listened to was entersandman. and he is probably a far more better guitar player than you. I dont see you on guitarworld magazine do I? i think not. to shut the hell up and quit your bitching.

Thats because back then they didnt have much you retard. it was like the 60s back then. The wah wah was the biggest hit. and you where just dissing the wah wah pedal earlier. well how do you think he did Purple haze? thats right you moron he used to wah wah. and heres his list of equip if you dont believe me http://guitars.ru/music/gitarist/jimihendrix.gif

Hmmm... Chorus, Phaser, Filters (my comp has a music recording program, and the filters they have are pretty damn trippy!) I wanna say wah, but that's not an effect to me. It's a way of life.

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i hate the black album. i think iv listened to enter the sand man mabe twice, gayest shit iv ever heard. and yes kirk hammet does suck and yes i am better then him. he stole most his shit from satriani anyways. and your the one doing the bitching. i was just expressing my opinion your the one making an immature whiny little brat out of your self.

hendrix is my favorite guitarest ever. i said he could make kick as sounds with out lots of effects. now mabe i didnt specify my dis tword the wah wah correctly: people who use the wah for solos constantly and cant play solos with out one are shit. i fucking said i like to mess around with effects every once in a while, but my god if you morons cant make guitar sound good with out effects you just cant play worth shit. period. effects take all the real emotion out of playing.

whats with "guitar players" these days? all this technoligy is taking all the challenge out of guitar playing. make talentless dumbasses feel like thier worth somthing.

I hardley ever use effects anymore. I dont know why.

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thats because your becoming a better guitar player and your finding you dont need effects to sound good.

My Rackmounted effects are so fuckign crazy!!!

First i have my Korg DTR-2000 Tuner... this thing makes the coolest noises!!
Then my BBE Sonic Maximizer
and lastly my DOD 830QX EQ

and a a Dunlop 535-Q Wah

Yeh.. i love my awesome effects!!

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if you can play a solo with a wah, you can play the same solo without the wah.... and unless you're out of tune or don't know anything about scales or modes, it will sound find. the wah is just a controlable filter, the notes are still the same, it just sounds different with the filter cutting certain frequencies.
just because YOU can't sound good WITH fx doesnt mean people that use them arent anygood. if you can play the guitar good and make it sound good, you're a good guitarist... but if you can play guitar good, put fx over them, and still let it sound good, you're an even better guitarist.
a guitarist that has stopped using fx as much as he used to doesnt mean he's getting better, it means the way he is currently evolving is away from effects.
plain and simple... i've been playing for years... on all sorts of gear. and I still use fx because with fx i can do more, you try and make a natural flange effect without a flanger pedal, you can't. but they flanger is a cool effect and you can do alot with it... why limit yourself....
quit preaching about your retarded anti-fx ideas... your ignorance is super annoying.... and yes, YOU look like a whiny little ignorant bitch.

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all im saying is if you use the wah correctly (which isnt that hard) it can make you sound like your playing twice as fast and if you mess up here and there it doesnt make as big a difference. obviuosly you havent seen anyone that can play with effects and like crap with out them. heres an extreme example, try playing a fast solo with out and distortion or effects. its alot harder. why because some notes arnt even picked up. with effects if a note isnt picked up the perivious note carrys over and someone might not notice.

nevermind, i dont care. i used to think effects were cool and i know how to fucking use them, but there just not my thing any more. you probably have somthing wierd you do and try to persuade everyone else to do it.

ive never used effects cuz i havent bothered buying any.

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uummmm, a wah doesn make you sound like you're playing twice as fast... i've established this already, a wah is a controlable filter.

yes i've seen people that suck using effects and people that suck using no effects, that just means they suck, ignorant assholes like yourself shouldnt blame it on fx, just get good with or without...

of course it will be harder for a sloppy guitar player that is used to having sludged out mud for distortion... my jmp-1 doesnt cover my ass very well, so rather than say it sucks like you probably would, i'd just get better.



i probably do have something "weird" that i do, but i'm not persuading anybody to do anything... i'm just telling you to quit your ignorant ranting because you don't know shit...
not using effects has nothing to do with being a more mature guitar player. like you claim... you "say" you know how to work effects and you "say" you're better than kirk hammett.... but i don't beleive any of it because you totally made it obvious that you don't know shit.

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its not that much of an accomplishment...
.............................................................kirk hammett

dude, just because i don't like mettallica doesnt mean they suck, i hate many bands that have "talent", kirk hammett isnt that bad... he has a generic metal style though... origionality does not always equal talent.
when i say mettallica sucks.... i mean lars is a mediocre drummer and the rest of the music doesnt apeal to me.
besides, people that sit there and brag about how they're better than everybody are just annoying, a really good guitarist will be humble and let others do the bragging for him if there is bragging to be done.
hammet can't be to bad though, hell he was taught by satriani i beleive?...

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metallcia is probably my 3rd favorite band... making fun of kirk is just kind of in with my group of friends right now... and i hate to brag but its kind of hard to be humble on the internet because no one knows who you are and they might think guitar isnt even a big part of your life if you dont say somthing...

show, don't tell... a cocky attitude makes you useless in the music world because noody will like you or want to put up with your shit... i've turned alot of people away, not because they werent good enough, but because i didn't want to put up with their "rockstar" attitude and their ignorance.... that's exactly the kind of shit bands break up over...

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Now this is interesting.

I almost agree with Angel-Of-Death on this for some reason. I do think that a sucky guitarist can do an adequate solo with the help of wah. But theres a lot of better guitarists that use wah that don't already suck. You can still use effects and be a good guitarist... I have no clue where I'm going with this

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Hey now, Yngwie managed to succeed and hes an asshole.

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im speachless... do you realize this is like the first time in one of these forums anyone has agreed with me on anything? im gona go celebrate!!!

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well, he's a virtuoso guitarist and anybody that would say he's not good would have to be killed.... angel of death however is not a virtuoso.... i highly doubt he could he even be close....
besides if yngwie is really a cocky asshole i wouldnt want to be around him....


how? the wah doesnt play the solo for them, i think you people think the wah is some peice of magical gear that does stuff for you.... well, it doesnt. take the wah away from that adequate solo and its still the same adequate solo without a filter cutting certain freqs.
solos do not neccisarily make you talented anyways. i know people that could solo like crazy but i don't consider them "great" because they don't know very many chords and they have no concept of rythm.

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Yngwie is just cocky, I wouldn’t miss an opportunity to be around him and learn off of him because of that fact. And if he wanted to start a band with me i sure as hell wouldn’t say no.

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yeh, but he already has fame and shit going for him. if he was a nobody that you had never heard play and he just ranted about how good he was you'd want to punch him or something.
i hate when your average high school kid just sits there and talks about he's the best guitarist here blah blah....
this one guy wanted to play bass for my band. he was beyond good enough, he did slap stuff,tapping,plucking,harminics, he had great rythm, blah blah... he was just really good so i was like fuck i want this kid to play for us. he came to one of our pratices and hung out a bit.... holy sh*t we all almost kicked the shit out of him cause he wouldnt shut up about how good he was..
as it turns out his last three bands kicked him out for the same shit.
i'm all about being humble, i play what i like to play, if somebody likes the shit i play they'll be like "dude this guy rocks!" if not then nothing.

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fo sh0

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xdislexicx and co, stop argueing with your Angel-of-death's dumb and unsubstantiated opinion.
i'll close this thread, 'cuase i found a thread, which is pretty mcuh like this one:

http://metaltabs.com/forum/showthre...ghlight=effects

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