I can't give you any references, but if you wana just ask questions in this thread I will be glad to awnser them to the best of my ability. Good luck Diffusion.
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I can't give you any references, but if you wana just ask questions in this thread I will be glad to awnser them to the best of my ability. Good luck Diffusion.
I learned by buying a Nirvana tab book back in 1992, and learning the one chord used in rock music.
I reccommend you do the same.
TEH MIGHTY POWER CHORD 5TH!
Exactly. Now learn a major scale and you are Eddie Van Halen.
I don't know anything about guitares, but I have ears. And one thing that I hate is when guitarists play incredibly fast, not pausing between notes to allow them to chyme through. The shifting between notes just sounds like noise. I know it's picky, but if you could take your time to learn tempo and whatever you have to you'd probably be better off for it.
Just what I've observed from a lot of kids in high school who bring their guitar cases to school to impress their friends and the ladies. (say the ladies like a pimp or something, it's fun) They sound like shit when they play too fast. (unless the song is written fast... I don't know how to explain it. Maybe Icepick or somebody who knows music can)
It's called rhythm Andrew, explained.
Okay, so let's say I have an amp, an electric guitar, and effects pedal, how do they all hook up into each other? Where does the pre-amp go? What is a pre-amp? What sort of effects pedals are there?Quote:
Originally Posted by NoboruWataya
Guitar -> "in" on pedal -> "out" on pedal -> ampQuote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
You can get reverb pedals, delay pedals, accoustic effect pedals. There are many.
I'm not familiar with pre-amps though, sorry.
Effect pedals are stupid, but if you're gonna use one use the effects send on your amp.
That way you can at least blend the pedal with your amps natural tone.
send -> pedal input -> pedal output -> return.
Ok, sorry, I misinterpereted the orginal question. Just about all I use these days is clean and good old distortion so I don't know as much about this as I used to. As I understand it there are two kinds of amps, the pre-amp and the power amp. The pre-amp is what shapes and changes the sound of the signal that's being taken from an electric guitars pick-ups, basically it's the preamp that affects the actual tone of the amp, the power amp is raw power, it's just what makes the signal louder and pushes it through the speakers. As for the various kinds of effects there are thousands, but they generally tend to break down into a handful of categories.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
-Distortion: I'm guessing you know what this one is, and there are probably as many different kinds of distortion as there are effects.
-Modulation: I'm not sure what the proper definition is but these are effects like: flange (don't know how to describe this one) wah (voodoo chile, the theme from shaft) phaser (kind of an auto-wah) chorus and tremolo
-Echo: this includes things like delay (repeated signals), reverb and others.
I'm sure I'm missing some of the categories but, like I said I'm out of practice with effects. The best way to really learn what all this stuff is is to go to your nearest Guitar Center and sit there for a half hour playing with a multi-effects processer, if the ones around where you are are anything like the ones out here they shouldn't bug you. Thats really the only way I ever figured out what this stuff is.