![]() Reverb is the sound of an acoustic space, where sound waves are bouncing off walls, ceilings and floors to create a sonic “wash.” Early recording studios (such as the famed Abbey Road in London, or Capitol Records in Los Angeles) created reverb by placing speakers in small but very “live” rooms (usually with tiled walls and concrete floors and ceilings), with carefully spaced microphones placed nearby to pick up the “re-amped” sound, which would then be blended in with the original source signal. U2 guitarist The Edge often uses delays prominently, for example on “Where The Streets Have No Name.” 4. You can also usually pan the delays in stereo for an even more powerful sonic experience, as you can hear in the audio clip below. Controls typically allow you adjust the effect level, the delay time and number of delays, as well as the amount of feedback (that is, how much output signal is fed back to the input). Many guitar effects processors and pedals allow you to set this in BPM (Beats Per Minute) with the use of a “tap tempo” button so that the delays can be synchronized with the music. DELAYĪ delay is simply a copy of the original signal, usually occurring milliseconds later. ![]() ![]() (Like distortion, fuzz is something that can be successfully emulated by digital models.) Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” is one of the best examples of fuzz guitar on record. FUZZįuzz is another form of distortion, this time generated by using transistors to create a “clipped” square wave. Distortion is a mainstay of heavy metal and thrash music and provides extra sustain, tone and grit to your signal - think the classic sound of Randy Rhoads on Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train.” 2. This comes from the harmonic saturation that occurs when you overload a preamp and/or vacuum tubes, but it can also be successfully emulated in digital models of amp sounds. When you think of blazing hot guitar sounds, there’s usually distortion involved. To help cut through the fuzz, here are 10 of the most popular electric guitar effects, complete with audio examples and screenshots showing their settings. ![]() Today, there are thousands upon thousands of plug-ins and pedals that can change the sound of an electric guitar in countless ways. It’s not just distortion, delay and reverb anymore. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |