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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

My First Electric Guitar



Now, I own an electric guitar. It is a squier fender bulletstrat. It's cheap compare to others brand such as Ibanez, Yamaha, Gibson and Fender itself. It has a good clean sound but Fender has the better sound. It only cost about MR 600 compare to Fender MR 2100.

I also use a Marshal Amplifier DX10 and five guitar effect pedals to make various guitar sounds. These guitar effect pedals can produce heavy metal, crunchy and bright solos. It also can create a quite beautiful bright and clean sound.

Compressor
The compressor is next for similar reasons. Compressors are amplifiers; that means they can increase the content of whatever is before them in the signal path. If they are placed after noisy things like overdrives, they will add even more noise. Plus, a compressor placed before an overdrive can fatten up the distortion by increasing the signal going into the overdrive pedal. Many players use compressors just to compensate for the low output of single coil pickups. I done this in my line up.
Overdrive
Next is the distortion. Overdrive and distortion pedals change the harmonic content of what comes before them, and can amplify the sound a lot, so you usually want pedals with a clean output before them, and pedals that don’t further increase the level and the noise after them.
EQ
The previous pedals are for creating your basic tone. Now you want to use equalization to dial it in. Maybe you need more highs in certain parts of your song, or more bottom. The EQ will process the sound of the pedals before it and boost or cut frequencies to get you the sound you want. Place the EQ after the wahs, compressors, and overdrives. However, sometimes it can be used like a compressor to hit your distortion harder for more sustain, or to compensate for low output pickups, so it can be used right before the overdrives.However, for me the EQ is most effective right after the Digi Tech Distortion DF7.

Chorus
All the pedals up to this point are creating and fine-tuning the basic tone. Now you want to process that tone by adding chorus. The CH-1 is a stereo chorus with an unusually fat sound. Choruses like to work on the entire tone. chorus after the amplifying and equalizing tools.
Ambience
In the physical world, if you were in a cave or, say, the Grand Canyon, any sound you made would bounce off the walls and come back at you as delay or reverb. This delay or reverb would be a repeat of the entire sound. In a series of pedals, you would put the delay or reverb last in the chain, to add some ambience, and to simulate the reality of actual reflected sound. Until recently, we would suggest that the chorus be the last in line; this is because the chorus was the only stereo pedal, and, by having it last, you could then go out to two amps in true stereo. However, the DD-6 digital delay is true stereo; in fact, it has two inputs, enabling the chorus or other stereo effects to be before it. So to be true to how sound is made in the physical world, put the delay last.


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