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2. Volume swell - Wikipedia

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   Jeff Beck used volume swells throughout his career, an example being "Where Were You" from his 1989 album Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop. George Harrison used a volume pedal on the Beatles' songs "I Need You", "Yes It Is", and "Wait". Ritchie Blackmore used the volume knob technique live with both Deep Purple and Rainbow, and there are a few recorded ...

3. Expression pedal - Wikipedia

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   An expression pedal is an important control found on many musical instruments including organs, electronic keyboards, and pedal steel guitar. The musician uses the pedal to control different aspects of the sound, commonly volume. Separate expression pedals can often be added to a guitar amplifier or effects unit and used to control many ...

4. Fuzz Face - Wikipedia

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   By rolling the volume knob, the guitar player can decrease the gain of the pedal and get a clean or crunch sound, while still having all the gain when the volume knob is on maximum. [ clarification needed ] For the same reason, Fuzz Face pedals react differently when placed directly after the guitar than when after other pedals or after a ...

5. Big Muff - Wikipedia

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   The final stage is a tone recovery stage, which recovers volume loss as the tone stack in the Big Muff is passive, and the pedal loses some volume because of this. For a short time in the late-1970s, the Big Muff used op-amps , which at the time were not as highly regarded as the discrete transistor versions.

6. Klon Centaur - Wikipedia

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   The Klon Centaur is an overdrive pedal made by the American engineer Bill Finnegan between 1994 and 2008. Finnegan aimed to create a pedal that would recreate the harmonically rich distortion of a guitar amplifier at a high volume. Finnegan struggled to meet demand, and used units sold for inflated prices.

7. Effects unit - Wikipedia

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   Treadle-style volume pedals are often also used to create swelling effects by removing the attack of a note or chord, as popularised by pedal steel guitar players. This enables electric guitar and pedal steel players to imitate the soft swelling sound that an orchestra string section can produce, in which a note or chord starts very softly and ...