Guitar Pedals: The best guitarists and their guitar pedals
Listen closely to bands such as Radiohead, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Primal Scream and it’s not long before you can hear the sounds of guitars elongated with a distort and delay from a guitar pedal. An effect added on the fly through a quality guitar pedal can convey all sorts of emotion and take a song and the listener to different places. Like an artist painting a picture, the best guitar pedals are used to colour a guitar’s sound, from a very slight seasoning to a total transformation. Guitarists are artists, their instruments are their brushes and a real good guitar pedal can really broaden a guitarist’s palette.
2012 will be the year rock bands fight back, that’s right I’m predicting it! The over saturation of pop music in the charts and the hard times that have befallen on the youth of today will surely lead to some innovative, motivated and talented young bands breaking through, full of fire and skill. Over their shoulders; guitars, and in their hands; guitar pedals. To really explore your musical boundaries a guitarist can do no wrong with a quality guitar pedal.
Famous guitarists and their guitar pedals
Boss guitar pedals are vital in recreating the sound of the Black keys. Over the years guitarist Dan Auerbach of Black Keys has been seen to use the Boss RV-5 Reverb, Boss Tremolo and the TU-2 guitar pedal by Boss. Keeping in line with their basic and raw musical ethos, the Black Key guitarist uses the TR-2 Tremolo Boss Guitar Pedal to add authentic 60s sounding tremolo effects. A simple-to-use stompbox, the TR-2 by Boss also features wave, rate and depth knobs to add further layers to the sound yet still maintaining that raw sound.
Oasis have been known to use a guitar pedal or two, especially with some of the more psychedelic tracks found on Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. This album is like a showreel for some mind bending guitar pedal effects and the Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler Effects Processor guitar pedal especially. This guitar pedal by Line 6 has been a favourite of Noel Gallagher’s for some time. Capable of delay, some mega echo, reverse, fade and much much more, if you buy this guitar pedal you will feel like a child who has just been let loose in Toys R Us!
Whether or not rock music will make a comeback this year is unknown, although I feel that as the manufactured pop music that crowds the charts today starts to bore the public, the cream will rise to the top. Talent, guitars and melody will once again reign supreme. Join the revolution, pick up your guitar, get a guitar pedal and lets do this!