Overdrive Pedal
This is the overdrive pedal section where you will find all the information you need on overdrive pedals. Reviews of the best guitar overdrive pedal as well as purchasing tips and links to great places to buy them will be in this section. A guitar overdrive pedal are an important part of any guitar players effects pedals collection.
This is the Double Trouble Guitar overdrive pedal. What is interesting about this pedal is that it features two different overdrive effect channels built into one unit. This will no doubt help in creating a very wide ranging overdrive distortion ability, which may give this pedal some advantages over others that may only have one processor in them. Each of the overdrive channels also have three knobs each to let you control the sound and volume of the respective channels.
January 29 2010 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
Guitar overdrive distortion can be a very effective device to use for a more natural tone. Some people would call a clean guitar tone a natural tone, but I’m thinking of this in a different way. Few sounds in the world are as pure as the clean sound of guitar strings ringing or piano keys ringing. What I mean by natural is making them more imperfect in the way that a violin or saxophone note can be.
January 17 2010 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
Everyone knows that overdrive and distortion are great effects for the guitar in many different styles, but something that is less talked about is the fact that you can use overdrive distortion to make exiting effects with many other instruments. This is something that many musicians are starting to work with, but it happens a surprising minority of the time. There is no reason that overdrive should be kept exclusively to the guitar, and hopefully more producers and composers will start using it.
January 10 2010 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
One thing that a lot of guitar players do not know about guitar overdrive pedals is that they have been used to by several jazz musicians to copy the general sound that a saxophone or trumpet makes. Usually overdrive pedals are just thought of in a rock context to supply the usual distortion and overdriven sounds. However, some of the more interesting uses of this common guitar effect are by a few notable jazz guitar players.
Grant Green is one of the first, if not the first, to use guitar overdrive effects to imitate the sound of a horn. As one of the early guitar players in jazz at a time when guitar effects were just getting started, he sought a way to make his instrument stick out for solo lines like a blazing horn solo does. His solution was to use his amp to create an overdriven tone that cut through the band and made his guitar sound more like the imperfect sound of a horn being blown through. This use of guitar overdrive helped him solo more effectively and let everyone hear his lines without any straining.
January 05 2010 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
The considerations of when to use guitar overdrive during practice and when not to can be very important for any player. Overdrive effects can either help or harm your practice routine, depending on what it is that you are doing, so you need to know what effects it can have and when you want to implement them. First, lets talk about how guitar overdrive can hurt your practicing.
If you are trying to do complex finger exercises you want to be able to hear any mistakes that you are making. This is one of the biggest ways an overdrive pedal can damage your playing. Overdrive will hide small mistakes in fingerings that you make, and though this may sound like a good thing, if you are not hearing your mistakes in practice you will not be able to fix them. When performing a concert it is fine that you not hear small mistakes, even desirable, but during practice you want to use a clean tone to be able to hear anything you are doing wrong.
January 03 2010 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
Guitar overdrive is an effect that has started to become pretty popular with film music composers, and for good reason; it is a very powerful sound that can be moving and impressive. Since the time guitar overdrive has become popular in some of the more common types of music such as rock and pop, it has found its way into other less mainstream styles such as jazz and even orchestral music. This is probably one of the important steps that got it into film music, and it will be interesting to see how popular it gets in the future.
December 07 2009 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
There is a site I would like to inform everyone about that posts many music articles about different subjects everyday. A lot of the time they are related to the guitar and guitar effects pedals, so the overdrive pedal crowd here might see some information that interests them. There is a lot of great information out there on the internet about overdrive pedals and people need to know where its at.
November 12 2009 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
If you are new to playing guitar and you have purchased your first overdrive pedal, dont be afraid to get some help with it during any private music lessons you have going. Guitar effects pedals may seem easy to mess around with at first, but it can be a challenge to get a good tone out of them and know what kind of settings need to be made. Someone experienced with using them, or even someone experienced with sound recording and production should be able to give you some tips that may no be obvious.
November 03 2009 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
The Rodenberg GAS 828 guitar overdrive pedal is a high quality unit that can deliever some of the most customizable guitar overdrive effects you will find. This is really two overdrive pedals in one container, and because of this, you get much more control over the tone and much more overdrive producing ability. This pedal produced such great overdrive, you may not even need any distortion pedals.
October 30 2009 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
This is the Tim guitar overdrive pedal. This is a well known and hugely respected hand built custom pedal that many people consider one of the best. The reason it is so well respected is that it does a good job of taking the natural sound of your amp and pushing it into overdrive. This means that it will not ruin the sound of your current set up when adding in overdrive. The pedal also will add in a slight taste of its own quality sound.
October 19 2009 | Overdrive Pedal | No Comments »
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