effects pedal

Used by electric guitarists. A device that sits on the floor and has a button on it that you press with your foot to turn it on and off. When on, it will add a sound effect, such as delay or distortion, to your guitar tone.

Effects pedals digitally add sound variance to a guitar signal.

The company DOD makes a pedal called the GS30. It's a good pedal for a beginner to have.

Distortion:

Acoustic-No Gain

Clean Combo-Very low gain

Dirty Combo-Low gain

Stack-Medium gain

Fuzz-Medium gain and fuzz distort

Grunge-High gain and channeling

Metal-High gain and low end

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Tone/Gate:

Gain-distortion

High EQ

Mid EQ

Low EQ

Gate Thresh-When a certain volume is being reached(from the guitar)it will turn all sound off.

Volume

Effect:

Chorus-Moody reverb, mysterious.

Flanger

Phaser

Tremolo

Ring Mod-Electronic ringing

Pixelator

Envelope

Pitch

Detune

Pitch Bend

Delay and Reverb

Parameters:
Speed
Depth
Amount
Delay Time
Regen/Feedback
Decay
Level

Music term for a piece of equipment installed between the instrument (usually a guitar) and the amp to enhance or distort the sound. Examples of effect boxes are fuzzbox, distortion, overdrive, flanger, phaser, chorus, reverb, compressor, and many others.

With modern DSP units, multi-effect boxes with two or more effects in one box have become more common.

The term "effect box" was originally used for the small, foot-operated units used by guitar and bass players, but now the term also applies to rack-mounted equipment used for any kind of instrument.