Gainstaging Effects

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When using multiple effects together, whether they are stompboxes or the effects in a multieffect unit’s patch, it becomes important to “gainstage”. Gainstaging is setting the gain (volume boost) of each stage (effect) in your signal path so it does not boost or cut the signal too much. Many effects
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Effect Chain Order

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There are a myriad of effects available to the guitarist, overdrive, wah, phaser, delay, reverb and dozens more. Unfortunately each time you add another effect to your setup you complicate things as you can connect the pedals in a different order and certain effects will sound or work differently depending
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MIDIguitar 1: Fleshing out your sound

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Recently on www.guitarforum.co.za I mentioned using MIDIguitar/guitar synth as an an alternative to backtracks for fleshing out the sound of performances. Pushed for details, I decided to use some of my weekly challenge entries to show the kinds of things I’m prone to doing with little provocation. In coming weeks,
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The Truth About True Bypass

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Some boutique effects pedal manufacturers these days tout the idea that true bypass is an essential feature to have. However, other quality manufacturers do not include it in their pedals and some go as far as to recommend against it. Let’s take a look at true bypass and the alternatives and try and make some sense out of it all…
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