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A lot of guitarists lean on the yellow Diamond Comp/EQ pedal or the Keeley Compressor+ (including myself until the UA 1176 released in pedal form), while others like the simplicity, tiny footprint ...
The King of Tone, released in 2005, was designed by former software engineer Mike Piera to create an improved version of the then-discontinued Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal. A two-sided pedal with independent controls and internal DIP switches to choose between boost, overdrive, and distortion modes, Piera started building the pedals by hand in ...
Numerous variations of the original RAT pedal are still being produced today; it has become one of best selling guitar effects boxes of all time, with some retailers placing it in their top-ten most-sold pedals. [2] The pedal has changed in appearance over the years, but its tone has remained largely the same.
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.
A footswitch pedal such as the "A/B" pedal routes a guitar signal to an amplifier or enables a performer to switch between two guitars, or between two amplifiers. This footswitch controls an effect (distortion), but it is not an effects pedal as the case does not contain effects circuitry; it is just a switch.
Since then, he develops his own pedals, starting with a boost pedal; his most popular effect is a compressor (first built in 2001), selling more than 27,000 copies. [3] According to Guitar World, Keeley Electronics has grown into "one of the world’s top sellers of guitar effects pedals". [4]
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 ...
The first distortion effects unit made by Boss, [1] it has become a classic effect, used by many notable guitar players. [2] Boss released a successor, the DS-2. [3] The DS-2, "Turbo Distortion" was released in 1987, and is very similar to the DS-1 except that it features a "turbo" setting, which produces a sharper midrange tone. [4]