"For The Love of Guitar Pedals"
The glory days of rock music (where pretty much everything was analog) owed a lot to guitar pedals. Those beautiful stomp boxes that lay chained together on grimy stage floors gave the electric guitar color, tone, and character like nothing else. There's a depth and a sonic spectrum that you get from these pedals. Today these old pedals aren't just collector's items - they're still widely used by guitarists. Some purists (such as myself) prefer not to use any digital processors. I like to keep it old school. These pedals don't go bad - they only get more valuable with age.
Despite the plethora of effects processors out there, the guitar pedal is still in demand, with more being developed every month. Now it's not uncommon to find acoustic guitar pedals and bass guitar pedals as well. Sometimes the pedals are used in odd ways (I even chain them up to my electric pianos and microphones). Sometimes they're used to embellish a tone or create wild, spacey guitar sounds. No matter how you go at it, you can't make a mistake. It's YOUR sound.
There are a huge variety of different types of guitar pedals: compressor pedals, chorus pedals, delay pedals, overdrive and heavy distortion pedals, reverb pedals, guitar wah pedals (wah wahs), and smooth sounding tube guitar pedals. Popular manufacturers from the old days are still around, with many great independent developers, including Behringer, Boss, Danelectro, DOD, Ibanez, Korg, Vox, Zoom, Maxon, MXR and more. Whether you're a vet guitarist, or just getting into your sonic options, I hope you find this site useful.
I second this opinion. Whole heartedily.