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FX consciousness

1/4/2000 8:47 PM
No name	FX consciousness In 30-plus years of electric guitar playing I have used delays, phasers, distortions, overdrives, wahs, choruses, compressors of every type - big pedalboards, etc. Nowadays I use a Rat if I'm doing a rock job, and I go without for all other types of music. The problem for me when I hear/use effects is that they sound like effects!... When I hear the guitarist turn on the chorus or the echo, I don't think, "Wow, that sounds great!" Instead I think, "Oh, he hit the chorus." Maybe I'm jaded, but they mostly sound like gimmicks to me now. Certainly I've heard many "blues" guitarists of the Caucasian persuasion who are defenseless without their overdrives... SRV has a lot to answer for. Whatever turns your crank is cool, but for me, in guitar tones as in other love-oriented activities, naked is best.

1/4/2000 8:47 PM

No name

FX consciousness

In 30-plus years of electric guitar playing I have used delays, phasers, distortions, overdrives, wahs, choruses, compressors of every type - big pedalboards, etc. Nowadays I use a Rat if I'm doing a rock job, and I go without for all other types of music.

The problem for me when I hear/use effects is that they sound like effects!... When I hear the guitarist turn on the chorus or the echo, I don't think, "Wow, that sounds great!" Instead I think, "Oh, he hit the chorus." Maybe I'm jaded, but they mostly sound like gimmicks to me now. Certainly I've heard many "blues" guitarists of the Caucasian persuasion who are defenseless without their overdrives... SRV has a lot to answer for.

Whatever turns your crank is cool, but for me, in guitar tones as in other love-oriented activities, naked is best.

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Tobias Karlsson q{Whatever turns your crank is cool... -- 1/6/2000 11:28 AM