Sunday, May 29, 2011

Online Electric Guitar Lessons - Where Are the Best?

Online electric guitar lessons that offer quality lessons can be difficult to find. The reason is because there are so many online electric guitar lessons but most are not even worth looking at.

Do you want to learn how to play the electric guitar? Or maybe you have been playing for awhile and are looking to pick up some new licks or riffs for your bag of tricks. No matter what level of experience you have playing the guitar, there are plenty of resources out there to help you expand your knowledge of playing the electric guitar.

The great thing about playing electric guitar is that the sound can be a lot more dynamic than a traditional acoustic guitar. You have all kinds of fun effects to play with such as distortion, vibrato, wah wah pedals and a whole lot more.

That's what makes playing electric guitar so much fun. You can play the same songs over and over again and make them sound completely different by simply adjusting the tone of your guitar.

So where is a good place to find online electric guitar lessons? The answer is, it depends on what you're looking for. Someone who is brand-new to play in the guitar will most likely benefit from a "how to get started" type of course, while advanced players are going to be more interested in what some of the more advanced lesson sites that offer.

And there is a lot of information on the Internet to sift through. Some of it is fantastic, but the majority of it is the same old rehashed boring guitar lessons that have been around forever.




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We talk about the best online electric guitar lessons. We also understand that every guitar player has individual needs so we can recommend lessons to you based on what style of music you'd like to play, as well as your experience level.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Fulltone Effects Pedals - An Introduction

These days, it seems like so-called "boutique" effects pedal manufacturers are a dime a dozen.  Not too long ago, however, handmade effects pedals were few and far between, until Mike Fuller founded Fulltone Custom Effects.  A former studio musician and one-time award winning blues guitarist, Mike Fuller almost single-handedly started the high-end pedal business and still offers a variety of pedals at a price that undercuts the competition. Despite the company's success, Fulltone still makes every pedal by hand they all bear the signature of their founder.

The company's flagship product is still the Fulldrive, which even in its current manifestation (the Fulldrive 2 Mosfet) still owes its basic feel to the hot-rodded TS808 sounds that Fulltone popularized years ago. Since that time, however, Fulltone has added a variety of distortion and overdrive colors to their pedal-palette. Both the OCD and GT-500 take the company's product line in exciting new directions.

Rather than offering fanciful "pedals of the week," Fulltone offers pedals that focus on classic rock and blues tones, such as the Deja-Vibe, the Supa-Trem, and the Ultimate Octave. The Fulltone Clyde Wah graces the pedalboards of studio musicians and performing professionals from California to New York. Recently, Fulltone has also begun manufacturing a modern alternative to the time-honored Echoplex tape echo with numerous contemporary upgrades (quiet motors, handwired, stereo outs, nickel plated stainless steel parts).  

All Fulltone pedals share the same high commitment to quality and customer service.  All pedals contain true bypass switching courtesy of Fulltone's own 3PDT quality bypass switching. Overengineered to stand the rigors of the studio and the road, Fulltone effects pedals are the very definition of American craftsmanship.

From David Grissom to Eric Johnson, guitar professionals again and again choose Fulltone for their sound-sculpting needs.  




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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

OKKO - Dominator

KAYZER PEDAL DEMO - This clip is recorded with the Zoom Q3, it might not be able to capture the full brutality of the Okko Dominator but you might get a grip how amazing this pedal sounds and i hope you will enjoy the clip anyway ;-) ESP Custom Shop Jeff Hanneman loaded with EMG81 pickups into a Blackstar Artisan 30 combo www.myspace.com/timehascome

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

PER NILSSON clean guitar improvisation

It's a good thing to let the distortion pedal rest every now and then and flex your clean-sound muscles instead. I didn't use a guitar amp for this, just plugged straight into the audio interface of my computer and used a few plug-ins in Cubase: compressor and limiter, stereo delay and a tc electronic reverb.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Guitar Foot Pedals - Distortion and Overdrive Effects

There is often quite a bit of confusion between the terms "overdrive" and "distortion". Let's try to clear that up a bit.

Overdrive

Overdrive inherently involves distorting the sound coming from your amp, but it is different from what we have come to call "Guitar Distortion". Overdrive is simply a boosting of the the signal of your guitar before it enters the amplifier. Basically, you can think of it as a very big signal trying to get through a smaller opening. In the early days--and sometimes still--, overdrive was achieved by turning the volume on the amp DOWN and the volume on the guitar UP. This forces the large signal of the guitar into the smaller output capacity of the amp. (Think of a garden hose where the water is forced into a smaller power nozzle.)

The sound that you get with overdrive is a kind of warm, dirty, "beefed up" sound. It is not meant to add massive amounts of screaming metal distortion. Rather, it is an overall boost to the guitar signal without any added tonal coloration. The sound is similar to that of a tube amp when it is "cranked up". If you are doing blues and rock then maybe an overdrive pedal will give you the sound that you want.

Distortion

Distortion is a more intense overdriven sound with added tonal coloration. There are as many types of distortion as there are players.It all depends upon taste--anything from a fuzz tone to a full-on, notched-out midrange, death metal wall of noise. Digital distortion has a more metallic, raspy sound which works well for heavy metal, grunge, or reliving your 80's hair band days. Analog tube distortion gives a good, all-around rock tone, such as the sound of a Marshall stack cranked to the MAX.

Overdrive and Distortion Pedals

There is a countless variety of overdrive and distortion guitar effects pedals on the market. Most of these pedals are geared toward a specific type of musical sound. There are pedals for Metal, pedals for a Classic Rock Sound and pedals for the "Overdrive Crunch" enthusiast, just to name a few. While some pedals have three simple knobs,--Tone, Level, and Distortion--others have many more controllable parameters.

In addition to the individual overdrive and distortion pedals, these effects are also available in a wide variety of "Multi-Effects" pedals. With all that is available to today's guitarist, there is absolutely nothing to stop you from developing your "signature sound". You just have to look around a bit. For a more detailed discussion of overdrive, distortion and other guitar effects pedals as well as purchasing resources and pedal recommendations, visit:




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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Rockett Pedals Animal Overdrive

www.ProGuitarShop.com - Rockett Pedals Animal Overdrive is a completely organic and richly harmonic plexi sound in a stompbox. Before you stop reading.yes.there are many stompboxes that bill themselves as plexi in a box pedals, and yes, a lot of them fall short of that classic Marshall sound. But the folks at Rockett Pedals have truly delivered a wondrous plexi styled stompbox with their Animal Overdrive. This is the real deal, kids, so listen up. Get the classic tone of a wide open Marshall plexi, but without having to hump a 4x12 to the gig. This is perfect for you players who have amps with Fender voiced circuits, cause this pedal will get you back in black and a fair warning all in one easy to use overdrive. As with Rockett Pedals other superb stompboxes, there are endless tonal varieties to choose from. Youre only limited by the free time you have to tweak your sound. Volume controls the signal, and Gain controls the level of overdrive. The Bass and Treble knobs are highly responsive and allow you to dial in some variable tones with just some creative use of all 4 knobs. The Snarl switch allows you to move from a classic plexi tone to a modified overdrive plexi tone. This can be a very aggressive pedal, but if you knock back the Gain knob and start to work your Volume and Tone knobs, you can get some truly warm and rich tones that will really beef up and enhance your single coil guitars. Of course, if youre rocking the humbucking guitar, dont be afraid to turn this ...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Steve Vai - Jemini Distortion Pedal Demo (High Quality)

You're stomping all over my brilliant idea, but that's OK, you're supposed to. The goal was to create a schizophrenic type distortion pedal that allows you to have two different settings with two different sounding distortion pedals, all wrapped up in a psyco-delic bullet proof package. Now you can get your dirty little groove on in public... legally. Stomp on! - Steve For more info on the Jemini visit: www.ibanez.com Visit the official Steve Vai website at www.vai.com

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

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Monday, May 2, 2011

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