We'll miss your face around the shop for a few weeks, but enjoy this time with your precious family!
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And speaking of new beginnings, it's a new month, and this month is all about Effects for us. So whhile we are looking forward, let's take a moment to look back at the history of Guitar Effects.
Mahatma Gandhi was murdered, cauliflower was 15c a head, and the bikini and Polaroid camera were making their first appearances (coincidence?). The year was 1948 and the very first commercially available effects pedal, the DeArmond Trem Trol 800, appeared on the scene. It was made popular by Bo Diddley, an early Rock N'Roll guitarist, and it produced a tremolo effect by passing an electrical signal through a water based electrolytic fluid. From that point on, guitar music would never be the same.
Throughout the 1950s, amplifiers were appearing with built in effects like tremolo, vibrato and reverb, though distortion was being achieved by musicians such as Willie Johnson and Chuck Berry deliberately increasing the gain. A distortion pedal first appeared in 1962 when The Ventures made their own for their song The 2000 Pound Bee. From then on it was an avalanche - the first transistorised pedal was the Maestro Fuzz Tone in 1962, 1967 saw the first wah-wah pedal (Warwick), 1968 brought the first phase shift and chorus pedal (Univox), and 1969 was punctuated by Pete Townsend and his Univox U-250 Uni-Fuzz. The 1970s saw several new solid state effects pedals on the market, the 1980s made digitised rackmount units popular, and the 1990s brought it all back to the garage due to the watershed moment that was Nirvana.
This century offers a plethora of options for the guitarist, with not only many new effects but also lots of vintage reissues of classic pedals. We have a great range in stock and get new ones in all the time, so if you like to experiment with refining your tone, our Effects section is one you will want to keep an eye on!
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With that in mind, let's have a closer look at some of our Guitar Effects. This week we will look at our range of TC Electronic pedals.
At the back you can see the bright yellow of the Afterglow vintage style chorus pedal. Its all-analog circuit uses a Bucket Brigade Device (BBD) to create a wide range of classic handed-down modulation tones. Just in front of that we have the Ditto Intuitive digital looping pedal, which packs a lot of punch into a tiny package. On the front corner we have the Mojo Mojo Overdrive pedal, which ramps up the voltage up to 4x other popular drive pedals. Or if you're after a true pitch vibrato pedal you can't go past the Tailspin, which delivers a wealth of stunning vintage vibrato tones all served in a very affordable package. As you can see we have lots more, and get new ones in all the time, so come down and check them out today!
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And as usual, we need to assault your eyes with our weekly Friday Funny:
But was he as bad as these jokes, I hear you ask?
Have a great week and we will catch you all next time!
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