The Ultimate Guide To Pedals
Whether you’ve just decided to put your first pedalboard together or you need some advice on integrating apedal or two in an existing ’board, there’s sure to be something for you this month. Yes, we’ve made it our mission to help you choose the right pedals for you, guiding you through the best examples currently on sale and giving you expert advice to help you add to your pedalboard.
Our tip for getting started is to think of your pedals in groups – a handy way of narrowing down the thousands of effects currently available to buy. There are only really a handful of categories: first, pedals that boost and clip (like overdrive, distortion and fuzz); then modulation effects (phasers, flangers, choruses and so on); next up are echoes (delay and reverb); and finally, utility pedals such as compressors, gates, volume and EQs. Besides these categories there are also all-in-one multi-effects of various types, as well as amp modellers but we’ll cover these another time. Here, we’re talking about pedals
