jeffrey
Well-known member
I like effects a lot, but it's how you use them.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Chorus much at all. I like it for clean sounds occasionally, but I really don't like it at all distorted. For the most part, I like my distorted tones 100% dry. If anything, a smidge of verb, but very, very little.
When soloing, I like to use delay and a wah. I have all my effects set up via continuous control so I can take out delay for faster more intricate sections and put it back in when I hold a note and let it sing. It's really effective.
My primary signal processor is a TC Electronics G-Force. I prefer racks over pedals just because they run a much cleaner signal I find not trying to shove effects into the preamp section of your amp/head. I also prefer to go straight into the head with the cable to get the purest tone of the instrument.
Because of that I was running my wah through the effects loop, but just couldn't get the tone I wanted. So I'm back to running it in front of the head.
Chorus is a pitch-shift. A small deviation in cents on a good pitch shifter will sound just about identical to a good Chorus.
Flanging is a bit different. A Flanging effect is created by mixing a signal with a delayed copy of itself where the delay time is constantly changing. This gives it that unique "warble". The delay time is very, very short. Usually 1-10 ms, imperceptable really by the human ear. Depending on the flanger you can change other things like various notches and cuts.
A Delay is simply and echo of the original signal in (usually) decreasing repetitions. Of course there are many variations of this depending on equipment: multi-taps, panning delays, erc.
A Reverb is many, many delayed sound waves arriving consecutively in a linear fashion depending on the size, shape and make-up of the environment (or the effect). Typically most Reverbs work on a principle of 'Early' and 'Late' reflections to try and make it sound more natural. The Early reflections happen immediately after the input and are well-defined and directly correlate to the shape and size of the room and how that sound arrives at the listener. The Late reflections, which are much more complex, arrive shortly after the Early reflections and exponentially at a greater rate while they simultaneously decay. That's the "aaahhh" diffuse sound at the end of a reverb.
For Delays and Choruses (and overall Continuous Control) I love the G-Force. Hands down I've had nothing better (not that I've played everything
). For reverbs, compression and filters (ie: high pass) I use another TC Electronics unit, the M-One. Fantastic reverbs. Very likely the best I've ever heard; especially for the money.
Hope some of this drivel helps.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Chorus much at all. I like it for clean sounds occasionally, but I really don't like it at all distorted. For the most part, I like my distorted tones 100% dry. If anything, a smidge of verb, but very, very little.
When soloing, I like to use delay and a wah. I have all my effects set up via continuous control so I can take out delay for faster more intricate sections and put it back in when I hold a note and let it sing. It's really effective.
My primary signal processor is a TC Electronics G-Force. I prefer racks over pedals just because they run a much cleaner signal I find not trying to shove effects into the preamp section of your amp/head. I also prefer to go straight into the head with the cable to get the purest tone of the instrument.
Because of that I was running my wah through the effects loop, but just couldn't get the tone I wanted. So I'm back to running it in front of the head.
Chorus is a pitch-shift. A small deviation in cents on a good pitch shifter will sound just about identical to a good Chorus.
Flanging is a bit different. A Flanging effect is created by mixing a signal with a delayed copy of itself where the delay time is constantly changing. This gives it that unique "warble". The delay time is very, very short. Usually 1-10 ms, imperceptable really by the human ear. Depending on the flanger you can change other things like various notches and cuts.
A Delay is simply and echo of the original signal in (usually) decreasing repetitions. Of course there are many variations of this depending on equipment: multi-taps, panning delays, erc.
A Reverb is many, many delayed sound waves arriving consecutively in a linear fashion depending on the size, shape and make-up of the environment (or the effect). Typically most Reverbs work on a principle of 'Early' and 'Late' reflections to try and make it sound more natural. The Early reflections happen immediately after the input and are well-defined and directly correlate to the shape and size of the room and how that sound arrives at the listener. The Late reflections, which are much more complex, arrive shortly after the Early reflections and exponentially at a greater rate while they simultaneously decay. That's the "aaahhh" diffuse sound at the end of a reverb.
For Delays and Choruses (and overall Continuous Control) I love the G-Force. Hands down I've had nothing better (not that I've played everything
). For reverbs, compression and filters (ie: high pass) I use another TC Electronics unit, the M-One. Fantastic reverbs. Very likely the best I've ever heard; especially for the money.Hope some of this drivel helps.
