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Digidesign (now Avid) introduced their amp modelling plug-in “Eleven” a few years ago and it has since been widely accepted for use in the studio and used on many professional recordings. The Eleven Rack is the new hardware version of the Eleven plug-in which functions as an amp modeller, a multi-effects unit, and as a [...] 
When using multiple effects together, whether they are stompboxes or the effects in a multieffect unit’s patch, it becomes important to “gainstage”. Gainstaging is setting the gain (volume boost) of each stage (effect) in your signal path so it does not boost or cut the signal too much. Many effects have the ability to boost [...] 
There are a myriad of effects available to the guitarist, overdrive, wah, phaser, delay, reverb and dozens more. Unfortunately each time you add another effect to your setup you complicate things as you can connect the pedals in a different order and certain effects will sound or work differently depending on where they are [...] 
Sometimes called picks, plectra (or plectrum in the singular) are very important as they are one of the main points of contact between the guitar and player. However they are an often overlooked aspect of playability and can also affect the tone greatly. They are available in dozens of different shapes, sizes, colours, materials [...] 
The Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive combines an overdrive and a clean boost with one slight twist – aside from the usual volume, tone and drive controls it also features a “clean” control, which mixes the clean and overdrive sounds together, allowing for tones which are a blend of the two. Features Overdrive circuit based on [...] 
Guitar stompbox compressors have historically been the effect type while the studio compressors were typically much larger rackmount units. Thankfully, this has been changing in recent years with some stompbox compressors approaching the effect of the studio models. One of these modern stompbox models is the T-Rex Comp-Nova. [...] 
The Tonerider Rebel 90 pickups are P90-style pickups in a humbucker cover, which means they can be fitted to any guitar that is made for humbuckers,while still giving single-coil P90 tonality. This is not a new idea, but Tonerider pickups have become well-regarded as punching well above their relatively low cost, so I was particularly interested in seeing if this reputation is justified. [...] 
Recently on www.guitarforum.co.za I mentioned using MIDIguitar/guitar synth as an an alternative to backtracks for fleshing out the sound of performances. Pushed for details, I decided to use some of my weekly challenge entries to show the kinds of things I’m prone to doing with little provocation. In coming weeks, I’ll present a series of articles on MIDIguitar – pros, cons, requirements and possibilities, so consider this as a quick intro to some of the possibilities. [...] 
T.C. Electronic’s latest stomp tuner offering is intriguing as it has a feature set comparable with the best tuners, but also offers something completely new – the ability to tune polyphonically, sensing and displaying the tuning of all your strings at the same time. So let’s see what all the fuss is about… [...] 
Not quite what I meant by naked! When last did you play your guitar naked? Don’t worry – naked guitar playing is not quite what you are probably thinking it is (anyway, if you take little things like trem cavities and springs into account, you’ll realise that type of naked playing is not necessarily [...] |
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