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The FX loop is between the Preamp Stage and the Power Amp Stage. The effects you should consider putting in the FX loop are Reverbs and Delays. Some of these effects are made to operate best with a line level signal, but not always. The key is to experiment. Some friends of mine put an EQ pedal...

victory pete... from your annoying posts i imagined you to be some 19 year old weenis putting talcum powder on his guitar in a URI dorm room. But... 30 years of playing guitars? whoa. that makes you pretty old. but still annoying. and childish. ps. in a PINCH. I mean a PINCH. when you're on...

first rule of preproduction: get rid of all your wall warts/daisy chains/midget-bicycle power stations and replace everything with 9V batteries. but I never use batteries in anything live... one goes and your fucked... best thing to do is to try to plug the chain into the same power strip as...

baby powder. use lots and lots of baby powder. :D

http://www.digitalburn.org/jack-white-and-his-pedal-boards/ The one on the bottom is the rig he used on that album. The guy writing about it is wrong about his use of the MXR Micro Amp; he uses it as a clean boost for solos. There's also no volume drop from the Digitech Whammy--it actually...

get a digitech whammy. it's the best for simulating bass on the guitar. Outside of that there's the Electro Harmonix Octave Multiplexer, but it's a piece of shit.

I have a DeVille that I play shows with constantly. It is INCREDIBLY easy to fracture solder joints from being bumped around, or being hauled in the back of a car. The power tubes have no shock absorbing material whatsoever. The warranty only covers tubes for 90 days... but the 5 year factory...

1853 guitar players and no one thought to bring a video camera? wtf?

Those freemasons are a strange bunch. They've been coming into the bar, aptly titled "The Tavern at the End of the World," where I book shows on Thursdays. They set up shop at a table with their suits on, nursed a beer for the better part of two hours, and hassled all the twenty-something...

I'm not trying to get into the digital/analog debate either. But I'm surprised when you say "there are guitar players who don't want their signal converted to digital and back again before hitting an amp becuase they can hear a difference in the sound." Well, yeah. I think any guitarist worth...

Oh, I forgot one important step. After getting drunk and naming the band, but before you book the shows, create an annoying myspace page.

Yeah. Chorus has been dead since Come as You Are. Get with it. :cool:

Absolutely god damn right. Look no further. That is, if you're sure you want a chorus pedal. Never really understood this thinking when it comes to guitar pedals... If it sounds good and it behaves the way it should, who gives a crap if it's analog or digital? The only time I care is with...

Get drunk. Think of a band name. Book a show. Get two friends. Teach one to play bass and make the other play drums whether they know how to play or not. Then you are in a band. Need some good band names? Johnny Subprime and the Reluctant Suicides Dick McSkinny and his Demented Elephants Pimp...

the alesis is a piece of shit. almost every band i see uses a microkorg if there's a synth. i have two of them and can't really explain why. they're awesome. build some kind of case for it though if you're gigging. they take a beating.

I bought an Avatar Cabinet off of craigslist with V30s in it, and I'm loving it. The bass and mids are nice and THICK. Tames a lot of that shrill high-end the crappy eminence speakers have. If I was playing metal in any drop tunings I wouldn't dream of anything else.

Gents, I'm doing a piece of writing called "Some Thoughts on Signal Paths & the Rock and Roll Messiah," and I was hoping to compare an image of a 'natural,' un-effected guitar wave vs. a wav that is clipped to all hell. I'm searching google now but can't find an image of a natural guitar wave...

Yeah that's normal. That's basically the point that I try to find on every guitar amplifier/guitar/pedal combo. For lack of a better term I call it envelope distortion, where you can control the grit by how hard you strike/pluck the notes.

It just struck me (while making my way through a case of beer and a suitcase full of controlled substances): Why don't you build a guitar? You've got the time.