Listen closely to bands such as Radiohead, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Primal Scream and it's not long before you can hear the sounds of guitars elongated with a distort and delay from a guitar pedal. An effect added on the fly through a quality guitar pedal can convey all sorts of emotion and take a song and the listener to different places. Like an artist painting a picture, the best guitar pedals are used to colour a guitar's sound, from a very slight seasoning to a total transformation. Guitarists are artists, their instruments are their brushes and a real good guitar pedal can really broaden a guitarist's palette.
2012 will be the year rock bands fight back, that's right I'm predicting it! The over saturation of pop music in the charts and the hard times that have befallen on the youth of today will surely lead to some innovative, motivated and talented young bands breaking through, full of fire and skill. Over their shoulders; guitars, and in their hands; guitar pedals. To really explore your musical boundaries a guitarist can do no wrong with a quality guitar pedal.
Famous guitarists and their guitar pedals
Boss guitar pedals are renown for their distort quality. Distortion is one of the most popular effects wanted in a guitar pedal. Some of the best guitar pedals aren't jacks of all trades, instead focusing on pulling off just one or a couple of effects really well. Guitar pedal boards wouldn't exist if there was one that did everything amazingly! One look by Noel Gallagher's feet when he's on stage and he's got a semi circle of guitar pedals in front of him, look a bit closer and I guarantee one is the DS-1 distort guitar pedal by boss.
Oasis have been known to use a guitar pedal or two, especially with some of the more psychedelic tracks found on Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. This album is like a showreel for some mind bending guitar pedal effects and the Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler Effects Processor guitar pedal especially. This guitar pedal by Line 6 has been a favourite of Noel Gallagher's for some time. Capable of delay, some mega echo, reverse, fade and much much more, if you buy this guitar pedal you will feel like a child who has just been let loose in Toys R Us!
It is a bit early to say if 2012 will be the year of rock musics triumphant return. There are some fantastic young bands waiting in the wings with their guitars and guitar pedals in hand ready to get their music out there to the masses if given the chance.
