Buying Guide Effects Pedals
We kunnen ons voorstellen dat je soms wat hulp nodig hebt bij het zoeken naar een geschikt effectpedaal. Het maakt eigenlijk niet uit of het je eerste gitaar pedaal is of je een doorgewinterde verzamelaar bent. Iedereen kan zo af en toe wel wat hulp gebruiken. Wist je overigens dat je bij ons de gratis gids Gitaar effectpedalen voor beginners krijgt als je je inschrijft voor onze nieuwsbrief?
Veel verschillende gitaareffecten
Er zijn veel verschillende gitaareffecten en voor veel categorieën hebben we inmiddels een koopgids gemaakt waarin we uitleggen wat het effect doet, waar je het kunt plaatsen in je effectketen, welke verschillen er zijn binnen die categorie en welke pedalen wij aanbevelen. Hierboven hebben we deze verschillende koopgidsen verzameld.
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If you are torn between fuzz and distortion, it is usually not about more gain, but about character. Choosing fuzz or distortion means choosing how a note responds under your fingers, how chords hold up, and how your guitar behaves in a band mix.
Continue reading Choosing fuzz or distortion for your sound
You only really notice a good pedalboard when it doesn’t get in your way during a rehearsal or gig. No mess of cables, no hum, no power supply that just falls short, and above all: a setup that feels logical under your feet.
Continue reading Guitar Pedalboard Setup Guide | Build the Perfect Pedalboard
Your board only really works well when the power supply is right. The question of how many pedals you can run from one power supply may seem simple, but the right answer almost always depends on current draw, pedal type and the way you power your pedals.
Continue reading How many pedals on a power supply?
Your clean channel sounds too polite, your crunch lacks focus, or your solo disappears in the mix. That is exactly where this guide to overdrive pedals begins.
Continue reading Guide for overdrive pedals: this is how you choose well
Ambient guitar rarely depends on gain alone. Most of the difference comes from space. Switch on the wrong reverb and your sound can become flat, muddy, or too present in the high end.
Continue reading Which reverb for ambient guitar?
You usually hear it within ten seconds. A delay either smears everything together, or it gives your part exactly the extra space, width and timing that a riff, lead line or ambient part needs.
Continue reading Delay Pedal Buying Guide for guitarists
The best distortion for metal rarely sounds the same for every guitarist. A tight modern metal rhythm requires something different than classic thrash, mid-heavy death metal, or stoner with a looser low end.
Continue reading Choose best distortion for metal
Amp-in-a-box pedals have become an essential part of the modern pedalboard. Where guitarists once depended on large tube amplifiers, you can now capture that same character in a compact pedal.
Continue reading Amp-in-a-box pedal: a complete amp on your pedalboard
You hear a guitar part that just starts to move – not like chorus, not as wavy as tremolo, and not as pronounced as a flanger. Chances are you’re listening to a phaser.
Continue reading What is a phaser pedal?
A blues part often stands or falls on a single detail: how an overdrive responds to your picking dynamics and volume knob. Those wondering which overdrive suits blues are usually not looking for the most gain.
Continue reading Which overdrive suits blues and why?