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Posted by: glazmusik Feb 18 2008, 06:55 PM

Guitar effects are awesome. As everyone knows, though, there is an absurd number of guitar effects out there. With the great number of different guitarists here, I want to hear from a bunch of different people what their favorite effects are. I know that this is vague, and that there are a great number of different categories and types of effects out there, but I just want to hear everyone's opinion, from pedal effects to rack modules to multi-effects boards. It might help to do something along the lines of "envelope filter - Doctor Q" (that's one of my favorites, just because it sounds funky and you can buy one for $40) to clarify things.


But yeah, there are so many people here, I'd love to get a bunch of opinions on effects under one topic.

Posted by: Pavel Feb 18 2008, 06:59 PM

Well, if we consider Delay an effect - than that is my favorite one Also i love Chorus for clean playing and harmonizer for some crazy robot-sounding licks

Posted by: Smikey2006 Feb 18 2008, 07:00 PM

my favorite effect is Delay if its an effect... also i love phaser but only clean.. if not i just like a plain heavy distortion or Overdrive

Posted by: Trond Vold Feb 18 2008, 07:02 PM

I like the more subtle effects.. like just a tiny bit of delay on a lead sound. A little goes a long way.
Never bothered much with getting pedals or multifx'es in the past, but i recently got a gt-8.. so i suspect i will start experimenting a bit

Posted by: RandomVictim Feb 18 2008, 07:06 PM

my Slash signature wah

Posted by: visi0n Feb 18 2008, 07:06 PM

I think .. my favorite effect is Delay, because its doing a lot to your sound, a little bit delay can change the sphere of the music

Posted by: Nemanja Feb 18 2008, 07:13 PM

I knowe this is a question for guitarists only...but...reverb,delay..voocoder....for voice off course:)

Posted by: skennington Feb 18 2008, 07:55 PM

Delay/Distortion/med room Reverb/Small amount of Chorus

Posted by: Trond Vold Feb 18 2008, 08:07 PM

Oh, forgot to mention:
In my rack i've got a Korg SDD-1200 (which is older than time itself), it's supposed to be a delay unit.. but what it does best is give some really unusual siren-sort of sounds. Still havent found any real usage for it, but it's fun to fool around with

Posted by: JVM Feb 18 2008, 08:21 PM

Delay or wah, don't make me choose

Posted by: KloCkWorXx Feb 18 2008, 08:22 PM

talkbox... always turns heads..

Posted by: Fran Feb 18 2008, 08:32 PM

The effects I use the most: reverb, delay and wah.

Posted by: Juan M. Valero Feb 18 2008, 09:09 PM

hehe, it reminds me a weird situation when a bass player said me that distortion is only an effect... I disagreed but I really didn't know what say, so if we consider distortion an effect it's allways the best one
But now seriously, I like delays for solos but I like also a good compresor/limiter or some reverb

Posted by: Bogdan Feb 18 2008, 09:12 PM

wah for me definitely...

Posted by: kevin-riff-after-riff Feb 19 2008, 11:09 PM

wahh! i think

Posted by: mattacuk Feb 19 2008, 11:10 PM

Just a dash of delay - perfect

Posted by: glazmusik Feb 20 2008, 12:00 AM

I've always wanted a talkbox but never felt like laying down the cash for one. Maybe I'll have to treat myself...

Wah is definitely always something awesome!

Posted by: ZakkWylde Feb 20 2008, 12:07 AM

Wahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwahwhawha...

Posted by: Smells Feb 20 2008, 12:17 AM

First and foremost Distortion but, probably after that Delay for me.

Posted by: Scott Gentzen Feb 20 2008, 05:11 AM

+1 on the vocoder.

I don't have any outboard effects yet. My amp has some of the basics built in...flange, phase, chorus, delay and reverb, etc. I pretty much keep them turned off.

I find that the more options I have to fiddle around with sounds, the more time I spend fiddling with them and less time practicing the guitar.

I'm a fan of messed up over distorted crap. I can't help it. Something like Cobain's running a SansAmp into a DS-1 into the amp.

Posted by: Zephyr Feb 20 2008, 06:14 AM

Delay/reverb, I almost never play with a dry sound. It just adds something for me... I love compressors for most of my sounds, as well, it doesn't make a massive difference in tone, but it's more of a "feel" kind of thing. And, of course, if overdrive/distortion counts, you gotta love them!

Speaking of that, I'm finally getting my first "real" pedal, I should be getting a Robert Keeley modified Tubescreamer soon. I got the TS9DX Flexi-4X2, which is more or less all of their TS mods combined into one pedal. It's got the "Mod Plus", which basically improves on the original Tubescreamer's weaknesses (better bass response, cleans up better, etc.), and the "Baked Mod", which gives you 3 times the saturation, so you can manage some higher gain stuff with it! I've got to be honest, what really sold me on this pedal was when I found out that Steve Vai uses two of these!

Posted by: Hisham Feb 20 2008, 10:01 PM

the overdrive /delay / chorus the most what i use

Posted by: Trond Vold Feb 20 2008, 10:41 PM

I've been diving into the GT-8 these past days and found a fascination for the phaser

Posted by: at lights end Feb 20 2008, 10:49 PM

distortion, reverb, delay and wah.
i don't have all of them, but i love the sound of them.

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Feb 21 2008, 01:18 PM

well if I had to choose I would choose one and only - the Wah