Effects pedals or stompboxes are electronic gadgets able to modify the sounds of your instrument, enriching them or changing some of their properties for the sake of making your performance more personal or more suitable from a technical point of view. Effects pedals are some metal or plastic boxes put on the floor, at your feet, and connected to your instrument that you can control with your feet, via some switches/pedals. Stompboxes are among the first of effects units to be developed, having just one or two effects and, as such, are relatively inexpensive, quite affordable for young guitarists, wishing to improve their sounds. While they are usually connected to the electric guitar, keyboard or bass, they can accommodate other instruments as well. So, if you can afford a good guitar, it would be a pity not to acquire a quite affordable stompbox, to give more chances to your musical creativity.
First of all, as it happens, you might perform a lot of solos, but, for a high quality, you need a volume boost. That's quite easy to obtain with dynamics effects, more precisely with a volume pedal to be operated as needed. Therefore, pedals can give you the technical and practical help you may need for better music.
But, most importantly, your sounds should be able to express your feelings in the slightest detail and nuance, for your music to sound personal, original and be liked by the others. Maybe, you want to express your love, but not directly and bluntly, but by rather using diaphanous overtones, as if afraid your delicate emotions would vanish, if conveyed aloud. Well, with distortion effects, you can certainly get precisely those sounds.
On the other hand, though you have no vocals in your song, maybe, you'd like some - not properly speaking, but sounding like them. A talk box could easily make voices (words) out of sounds - listen to Stevie Wonder's 'Black Man' and you'll see! Or, maybe, you are more ambitious and you want several voices singing - with some chorus pedals, you can achieve that, too, in the style Nirvana used in 'Come As You Are'.
The point is that, with effects pedals, you can explore your creativity in innovative ways, as at the beginning was conceivable only in a recording studio. So, just give it a try in the demonstration booth at Sounds Great Music, to see what stompboxes can do when connected to your PRS Guitar!
First of all, as it happens, you might perform a lot of solos, but, for a high quality, you need a volume boost. That's quite easy to obtain with dynamics effects, more precisely with a volume pedal to be operated as needed. Therefore, pedals can give you the technical and practical help you may need for better music.
But, most importantly, your sounds should be able to express your feelings in the slightest detail and nuance, for your music to sound personal, original and be liked by the others. Maybe, you want to express your love, but not directly and bluntly, but by rather using diaphanous overtones, as if afraid your delicate emotions would vanish, if conveyed aloud. Well, with distortion effects, you can certainly get precisely those sounds.
On the other hand, though you have no vocals in your song, maybe, you'd like some - not properly speaking, but sounding like them. A talk box could easily make voices (words) out of sounds - listen to Stevie Wonder's 'Black Man' and you'll see! Or, maybe, you are more ambitious and you want several voices singing - with some chorus pedals, you can achieve that, too, in the style Nirvana used in 'Come As You Are'.
The point is that, with effects pedals, you can explore your creativity in innovative ways, as at the beginning was conceivable only in a recording studio. So, just give it a try in the demonstration booth at Sounds Great Music, to see what stompboxes can do when connected to your PRS Guitar!
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