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: Intro 00:00 Single Pedals vs Multi Effects 01:44 Dynamic Effects (Compressor, EQ, Boost & Volume) 04:00 Pitch Effects (Octavers, Pitch Shifters & Harmonisers) 08:52 Drive Pedals (Including difference between Overdrive, Distortion & Fuzz) 12:39 Modulation Effects (Chorus, Flange, Phaser etc) 18:36 Delays & Echo Pedals 23:34 Reverb Pedals 28:42 Wah Pedals 33:02 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! Find us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/PMTHouseOfRock/ https://twitter.com/pmthouseofrock https://www.instagram.com/pmthouseofrock