Posts Tagged ‘pedals’
July 21st, 2010 | 
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http://www.ehx.com The Cathedral, by electro-harmonix. Super versatile reverb with some sweet presets. The reverse setting is my favorite. Yes, I still hate reverb, but have given in to the fact that I must demo them anyway. I had only 7 minutes left on my camera tape, so I did a quick run through of the presets to show what could be done with the box of echos. I used my 59 historic les paul and a lovely Fender blues junior amplifier.
Duration : 0:6:39
Learn how to use the reverb effects pedal when playing the electric guitar in these free online music video lessons.
Expert: Gary Schutt
Bio: Gary Schutt fue al Berklee College of Music donde se graduó con un BA en composición en 1990 y enseñó allí por dos veranos.
Filmmaker: Gary Schutt
Duration : 0:2:15
Learn how to use the delay effects pedal when playing the electric guitar in these free online music video lessons.
Expert: Gary Schutt
Bio: Gary Schutt fue al Berklee College of Music donde se graduó con un BA en composición en 1990 y enseñó allí por dos veranos.
Filmmaker: Gary Schutt
Duration : 0:2:47
This is a brief roundup of almost all Z Vex pedals (by Mr. Vex himself) taken from the NAMM exhibition at 2006 by gearwire.com.
Mr. Vex keeps his usual humour and good mood (I love that!) despite the fatigue of the show… My favourite, of course, is the Wah.
Beautiful handcrafted (and handpainted, too!) pedals, but some of them a bit overpriced – even above usual boutique pedals’ prices – and a bit small to be used easily on stage (unless you tape it down and use your finger to switch it on/off to avoid stepping on the knobs as well…)
To Mr. Vex’s immense credit, they are really advanced in terms of electronic design, and not a copy of anything else (a refreshing move in today’s world of pedal clones).
Described by some snobbish people as “gimmicks”, it is true that some of them are too strange for more than one song, and too unpredictable to get a constant sound from, but sometimes today’s music desperately needs to be less predictable… Of course, there are the “normal” ones such as the Box Of Rock, the Super Duper etc. but most of them are completely crazy!
Oh, and by the way, my all time favourite fuzz for my electric guitar would be the Woolly Mammoth – a fuzz initially designed for bass – if it didn’t sound so muffled and so uncontrollable. In reality, it sounds much different than the wonderful clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XW8-9P_FFw .
UPDATE: My snobbish attitude towards the Fuzz Factory is… gone! I am now the proud owner of one. Strange really, because I had played with it a lot before, and never really liked it. It doesn’t do everything, but has the advantage of instant wall-of-fuzz tone on a clean amp (think Fu Manchu, Smashing Pumpkins, Jesus & Mary Chain etc). And in bedroom volumes, too (although I can’t wait to take it on one of the oncoming gigs…)
Duration : 0:6:56
Learn how to use the flanger effects pedal when playing the electric guitar in these free online music video lessons.
Expert: Gary Schutt
Bio: Gary Schutt fue al Berklee College of Music donde se graduó con un BA en composición en 1990 y enseñó allí por dos veranos.
Filmmaker: Gary Schutt
Duration : 0:2:32
Learn how to use the compressor effects pedal when playing the electric guitar in these free online music video lessons.
Expert: Gary Schutt
Bio: Gary Schutt fue al Berklee College of Music donde se graduó con un BA en composición en 1990 y enseñó allí por dos veranos.
Filmmaker: Gary Schutt
Duration : 0:2:14
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Learn how to use the pre-delay effects pedal when playing the electric guitar in these free online music video lessons.
Expert: Gary Schutt
Bio: Gary Schutt fue al Berklee College of Music donde se graduó con un BA en composición en 1990 y enseñó allí por dos veranos.
Filmmaker: Gary Schutt
Duration : 0:3:12