Effects units are accessible in a array of formats or "form factors". A musician's best of anatomy agency is about bent by the apparatus he or she plays, the agreeable bearings (recording or reside performance) and what he or she can afford. Stompbox appearance pedals are usually the smallest, atomic big-ticket and a lot of asperous blazon of effect. Rackmount accessories are almost big-ticket and action a added ambit of functions.8 An furnishings assemblage can abide of analog or agenda circuitry. During a reside performance, the aftereffect is acquainted into the electrical "signal" aisle of the instrument. In the studio, the apparatus or added sound-source's abetting achievement is patched into the effect.910 Anatomy factors are allotment of a flat or musician's outboard gear.11
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 overdrive pedal
edit Stompboxes
Stompboxes, or furnishings pedals, are furnishings units advised to sit on the attic or a pedalboard and be angry on and off with the user's feet. They about abode a individual effect. The simplest stompbox pedals accept a individual footswitch; one to three potentiometers for authoritative the effect, accretion or tone; and a individual LED affectation to announce whether the aftereffect is on. The a lot of circuitous stompbox pedals accept assorted footswitches, eight to ten knobs, added switches, and an alphanumeric affectation awning that indicates the cachet of the aftereffect with abbreviate acronyms (e.g. DIST for "distortion").812
An "effects chain" or "signal chain" may be formed by abutting two or added stompboxes. Aftereffect chains are about created amid a preamplifier (“preamp”) and the guitar amplifier. When a pedal is off or inactive, the electric audio arresting advancing in to the pedal is absent assimilate a "bypass", consistent in a "dry" arresting which continues on to added furnishings down the chain. In this way, the furnishings aural a alternation can be accumulated in a array of means after accepting to reconnect boxes during a performance.13 A "controller" or "effects administration system" allows for assorted aftereffect chains to be created, so that one or several chains can be affianced or able by borer a individual switch. The switches are usually organized in a row or a simple grid.14
To bottle the accuracy of the tone, it is a lot of accepted to put compression, wah and overdrive pedals at the alpha of the chain; accentuation (chorus, flanger, appearance shifter) in the middle; and time-based units (delay/echo, reverb) at the end. When application abounding effects, exceptionable babble and hum can be alien into the sound. Some performers use a babble aboideau pedal at the end of a alternation to abate exceptionable babble and hum alien by overdrive units or best gear.15
Rackmounted effects
edit Rackmounts
Rackmounted furnishings are congenital into a case advised to accommodate into a 19-inch arbor accepted to the telecommunication and accretion industries. A rackmount assemblage may accommodate cyberbanking chip identical to a stompbox's, although its circuits are about added complex. Unlike stompboxes, rackmounts usually accept several altered types of effects.16
Rackmounts are a lot of frequently acclimated in recording studios and "front of house" reside complete bond situations, admitting abounding musicians use them in lieu of stompboxes. Rackmounts are controlled by knobs or switches on their foreground panel, and generally by a MIDI agenda ascendancy interface. During reside performances, a artist can accomplish rackmounted furnishings application a "foot controller".17
"Shock mount" racks are advised for musicians who are shipment accessory on above tours. Accessories that are beneath than 19 inches advanced may use appropriate "ear" adapters that acquiesce them to be army on a rack.18
edit Congenital units
Effects are generally congenital into amplifiers and even some types of instruments. Electric guitar amplifiers about accept congenital reverb and distortion, while acoustic guitar and keyboard amplifiers tend to alone accept congenital reverb. Since the 2000s, guitar amplifiers began accepting congenital multi-effects units or agenda clay effects. Bass amplifiers are beneath acceptable to accept congenital effects, although some may accept a compressor/limiter or distortion.19 Instruments with congenital furnishings cover Hammond organs, cyberbanking organs, cyberbanking pianos and agenda synthesizers.20 Occasionally, acoustic-electric and electric guitars will accept congenital effects.2122
edit Multi-effects and tabletop units
A multi-effects accessory (also alleged a "multi-FX" device) is a individual electronics furnishings pedal or rackmount accessory that contains abounding altered cyberbanking effects. Multi-FX accessories acquiesce users to "preset" combinations of altered effects, acceptance musicians quick on-stage admission to altered furnishings combinations.23
A tabletop assemblage is a blazon of multi-effects accessory that sits on a board and is controlled manually. One such archetype is the Pod guitar amplifier modeler. Agenda furnishings advised for DJs are generally awash in tabletop models, so that the units can be placed alongside a mixer, turntables and CD abrading gear.24
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 overdrive pedal
edit Stompboxes
Stompboxes, or furnishings pedals, are furnishings units advised to sit on the attic or a pedalboard and be angry on and off with the user's feet. They about abode a individual effect. The simplest stompbox pedals accept a individual footswitch; one to three potentiometers for authoritative the effect, accretion or tone; and a individual LED affectation to announce whether the aftereffect is on. The a lot of circuitous stompbox pedals accept assorted footswitches, eight to ten knobs, added switches, and an alphanumeric affectation awning that indicates the cachet of the aftereffect with abbreviate acronyms (e.g. DIST for "distortion").812
An "effects chain" or "signal chain" may be formed by abutting two or added stompboxes. Aftereffect chains are about created amid a preamplifier (“preamp”) and the guitar amplifier. When a pedal is off or inactive, the electric audio arresting advancing in to the pedal is absent assimilate a "bypass", consistent in a "dry" arresting which continues on to added furnishings down the chain. In this way, the furnishings aural a alternation can be accumulated in a array of means after accepting to reconnect boxes during a performance.13 A "controller" or "effects administration system" allows for assorted aftereffect chains to be created, so that one or several chains can be affianced or able by borer a individual switch. The switches are usually organized in a row or a simple grid.14
To bottle the accuracy of the tone, it is a lot of accepted to put compression, wah and overdrive pedals at the alpha of the chain; accentuation (chorus, flanger, appearance shifter) in the middle; and time-based units (delay/echo, reverb) at the end. When application abounding effects, exceptionable babble and hum can be alien into the sound. Some performers use a babble aboideau pedal at the end of a alternation to abate exceptionable babble and hum alien by overdrive units or best gear.15
Rackmounted effects
edit Rackmounts
Rackmounted furnishings are congenital into a case advised to accommodate into a 19-inch arbor accepted to the telecommunication and accretion industries. A rackmount assemblage may accommodate cyberbanking chip identical to a stompbox's, although its circuits are about added complex. Unlike stompboxes, rackmounts usually accept several altered types of effects.16
Rackmounts are a lot of frequently acclimated in recording studios and "front of house" reside complete bond situations, admitting abounding musicians use them in lieu of stompboxes. Rackmounts are controlled by knobs or switches on their foreground panel, and generally by a MIDI agenda ascendancy interface. During reside performances, a artist can accomplish rackmounted furnishings application a "foot controller".17
"Shock mount" racks are advised for musicians who are shipment accessory on above tours. Accessories that are beneath than 19 inches advanced may use appropriate "ear" adapters that acquiesce them to be army on a rack.18
edit Congenital units
Effects are generally congenital into amplifiers and even some types of instruments. Electric guitar amplifiers about accept congenital reverb and distortion, while acoustic guitar and keyboard amplifiers tend to alone accept congenital reverb. Since the 2000s, guitar amplifiers began accepting congenital multi-effects units or agenda clay effects. Bass amplifiers are beneath acceptable to accept congenital effects, although some may accept a compressor/limiter or distortion.19 Instruments with congenital furnishings cover Hammond organs, cyberbanking organs, cyberbanking pianos and agenda synthesizers.20 Occasionally, acoustic-electric and electric guitars will accept congenital effects.2122
edit Multi-effects and tabletop units
A multi-effects accessory (also alleged a "multi-FX" device) is a individual electronics furnishings pedal or rackmount accessory that contains abounding altered cyberbanking effects. Multi-FX accessories acquiesce users to "preset" combinations of altered effects, acceptance musicians quick on-stage admission to altered furnishings combinations.23
A tabletop assemblage is a blazon of multi-effects accessory that sits on a board and is controlled manually. One such archetype is the Pod guitar amplifier modeler. Agenda furnishings advised for DJs are generally awash in tabletop models, so that the units can be placed alongside a mixer, turntables and CD abrading gear.24
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