Helpful Guitar Effects Info - The Guitar Sherpa

Chorus: This website shows you how to use chorus in music. To make one instrument sound like many instruments are playing. It has quick links which are intro, how it works, common parameters, and many more.Website: Chorus

Compression/Limiting: Compression reduces the dynamic range of signal. It is used extensively in audio recording, production work, noise reduction, and live performance applications. Includes sections like how it works, why use compression/limiting, and other notes.Website: Compression/Limiting

Delay: The delay is one of the simplest effects out there, but it is very valuable when used properly. A little delay can bring life to dull mixes, widen your instrument's sound, and even allow you to solo over yourself. Sections include intro, the basic delay, other delay types, and implemenation.Website: Delay

Digitech User Manuals: Digitech user manuals offers a website where you can find user manuals for anythign that Digitech makes. You just simply pick your product from anything like pedals to vocalist products. They also offer brochures and info sheets.Website: Digitech User Manuals

Effects News & Resources: Effects news and Resources is a website where all new news and other things can be found. New ways to do things and people ideas that are in the news can be found here. Like a directory for effects news.Website: Effects News & Resources

Effects User Reviews: Effects user reviews offers a website where you can pick a part of an instrument, and instrument its self, or a company, and see reviews on it. They offer an A - Z bar where it is easy to find what you are looking for.Website: Effects User Reviews

Electric Guitar Effects: Pandora.com offers electric guitar effects. Such as things liek chorus, wah-wah, distortion, and many more. Each has a few different typed with instructions on how to do them.Website: Electric Guitar Effects

Expansion/Noise Gating: The expander is a type of dynamic processor. As the name implies, it increases the dynamic range of a signal such that low level signals are attenuated while the louder portions are neither attenuated or amplified. Which is the opposite of the compressor.The noise gate is expansion is taken to the extreme, where it will heavily attenuate the input or eliminate it entirely, leaving only silence.Website: Expansion/Noise Gating

Flanging: Flanging has a very characteristic sound that many people refer to as a "whooshing" sound, or a sound similar to the sound of a jet plane flying overhead. They offer links for intro, how it work, common parameters, implenation, and many more.Website: Flanging

Guitar Effects FAQ: Guitar effects FAQ was last updates on May 20, 2000. It is a website where there is a list of effects and what they are so you can learn what each effect will do. They have descriptions and terminology for each type of effect.Website: Guitar Effects FAQ

Guitar Effects Schematics: Guitar Schematics is a website with dozens of different types of effects for guitar. Each of the effects has a descriptive picture or text that shows you how to perform the effect.Website: Guitar Effects Schematics

Guitar Effects Tips: Guitar effects tips offers a few different types of guitar effects, each one has very descriptive short essays that teach you with great detail in each one. If you are not a visual learner and would rather read text to learn this is your website.Website: Guitar Effects Tips

Guitar Effects: What They Do: This website pretty much describes its self. They have dozens of different types of effects and they go in depth about each one and what they do and how they do it. They have effects from wah all the way to tremelo.Website: Guitar Effects: What They Do

How To Use A Guitar Effects Pedal: This website offers 12 different videos on how to use a pedal for your electric guitar. Each video has a different effect so that means there are 12 seperate videos for 12 different effects.Website: How To Use A Guitar Effects Pedal

Phase Shifting (Phasing): The phase shifter (or phaser) achieves its distinctive sound by creating one or more notches in the frequency domain that eliminate sounds at the notch frequencies. They offer sections like intro, how it works, common parameters, and a few others.Website: Phase Shifting (Phasing)

Rare But Cool FX: This website offers rare effects like madulated delay, multitracking via multitapped delay, vibe, Pixellator, vocorder, rando-wah, and random LFO. Each effect has a paragraph to describe what it is and how to do it.Website: Rare But Cool FX

Reverberation: Reverberation is probably one of the most heavily used effects in music. When you mention reverb to a musician, many will immediately think of a stomp box, signal processor, or the reverb knob on their amplifier. They offer sections like intro, what is reverberation, implementation and a few other.Website: Reberberation