A Beginner's Guide To Guitar Effects Pedals...Effect Types Explained!

Sam gives us a complete beginners guitar to effects pedals including sound examples and pedal placement tips.

Don't know an Echo from an Octaver? Your Flange from your Big Muff? In this beginner's guide to guitar effects pedal, Sam explains and takes a listen to most of the different "types" of effects, to help you get started on your guitar effects odyssey! This is a complete novices guide to effects pedals including sound examples - so grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!

Skip to each section of this video:

00:00 - Beginners Guide To Guitar Effects Pedals

01:44 - Single Pedals vs Multi Effects

04:00 - Dynamic Effects Explained (Compressor, EQ, Boost & Volume)

08:52 - Pitch Effects Explained (Octavers, Pitch Shifters & Harmonisers)

12:39 - Drive Pedals Explained (Including difference between Overdrive, Distortion & Fuzz)

18:36 - Modulation Effects Explained (Chorus, Flange, Phaser etc)

23:34 - Delays & Echo Pedals Explained

28:42 - Reverb Pedals Explained

33:02 - Wah Pedals Explained

Outro 36:09

For most of the examples in this we're using Landlord FX effects pedals, as they sound great but are very affordable, the perfect starting point for getting into stomp boxes...check out the full range here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/brands/landlord-fx

Other links mentioned in this video...

How To Set Up Your Pedalboard: https://youtu.be/I5RKUVvXkpg

Top 7 Tuners: https://youtu.be/Uq6TyBzz2wY

Loopers & How To Loop: https://youtu.be/tb0MGQgf6Mk

Read more: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2017/10/05/beginners-guide-to-guitar-effects-pedals/

Shop all guitar effects pedals: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/products/guitar/pedalsandeffects

If you're new to the world of electric guitars and finding the thousands of effects pedals available a little bit daunting or confusing, this beginners guide should hopefully make the different genres of effect types a little easier to understand. Within this video we look at the pros and cons of both individual pedals and multi-fx units, explain signal chains and pedal placement, look at the differences between delays, echo and reverbs and answer questions such as "what is an effects loop?". We hope you find this guide useful, you can try out any of the pedals that Sam's using here for yourself at your local Professional Music Technology.

Leave any pedal based questions in the comments and we'll do our best to answer them!

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