Recommend a pedal
he.who.forgets
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I play my acoustic far more frequently than my electric. I want to get a pedal or two to have a little fun and encourage myself to play the electric more often. What are some reasonably inexpensive FUN pedals to buy first? Delay? Reverb? Wah? Assuming I'm only going to buy one for now, which would you start with and why?
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hmmmm... tough question, but not impossible to answer. You've got to start somewhere right?
Ok, you want to coerce yourself a little to start paying more attention to the electric. I'm in the same boat. The acoustic is my go-to guitar, unless I'm in a band, then I grab the electric and the amp.
I don't think I'd buy a peddle that does just ONE function (distortion, wah, alien voices...), but rather I'd grab one that can do a multitude of things. Maybe, if you can muster up the savings for a while, it's wise to purchase a new digital amp that has tens of presets built into it. One to take a serious look at is the Crate DX112 or DX212 Digital amp. It has a beautiful sound and comes with a foot pedal that you can program presets into, from the buttons on the amp itself. Very cool unit.
For a peddle alone, perhaps it's wise to look here; http://guitar-pedals-review.toptenreviews.com/
There are some great starter pedals and if you are good at saving up a bit of extra coin, some great intermediate and advanced pedals to choose from as well. I'd order straight from the site, unless you can find them locally. HAVE FUN making some noise!
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Hell I have quite a bit of fun just going here http://proguitarshop.com/effects/delay-pedals.html and watching the demo vids. Check out the other stuff too. All kinds of crazy sounds to be made.
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has all the aforementioned effects in one....i've been having a lot of fun with mine lately....when you're playing alone in your room, you can strum chords and loop it....and then solo over it....so i'll do a reggae chord thing, and then solo over it using wah wah...or do a blues chord progression, then solo over it using overdrive and delay
or i'll do the chords to Immortality, Black, Red Mosquito, Yellow Ledbetter, etc and do my attempt at a McCready solo using the appropriate effects
Boss ME 50 is similar, many say distortion sounds a lot better on it, but it doesnt have the loop feature
people say the sound of multi-effects pedals arent as great as if you had each individual pedal, but its more than ok for playing in the bedroom...plus, both myself and the other guitarist in my band use these Boss multi-effects pedals at gigs, and so far in 5 years of playing gigs no one has ever stormed the stage complaining that they're not enjoying the music because our pedals dont sound good enough...so there!
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