If you play guitar, you already know about the many effects pedals that exist for amateur and professional guitar players to achieve the diverse range of sounds with their instruments, but something which you might not have heard a great deal about is the guitar multi-effects pedal.
If you want to be able to play like the professionals do, or indeed you want to create the illusion that you can, then you should consider buying a multi-effect pedal. Provided you've learnt to play the guitar beforehand, you can begin experimenting straight away with what is in effect, a Pandoras box of options from which to define your own sound - or if you like you can just replicate the sounds that made you fall in love with the guitar in the first place.
The pedal does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, if you'll pardon the expression. It isn't specific to any particular effect, buy gives the player a wide range of effects to accompany or enhance their own sounds - improving on what people hear from what they play (even if you are already very good).
Some multi-effects pedals include the ability to tap in your beat and select from a range of drum effects, which kind of makes you sound like you're in a band when you may in fact be playing on your own. Other effects include combining distortion effects with delay, feedback, clipping and more, besides. The main selling point is that a multi-effect pedal is so versatile that you can't quite get bored of it, unless you're bored of playing the guitar (in which case, this subject and even this article, won't be for you).
When you have a definitive shopping list of effects, you'll no doubt have a particular multi-effect pedal in mind. If you don't, try looking at online product reviews to see what people think of various models. Once you've done this, you could use the reviews to judge exactly what you want to spend (and maybe don't want to spend) on your desired model.
If you want to be able to play like the professionals do, or indeed you want to create the illusion that you can, then you should consider buying a multi-effect pedal. Provided you've learnt to play the guitar beforehand, you can begin experimenting straight away with what is in effect, a Pandoras box of options from which to define your own sound - or if you like you can just replicate the sounds that made you fall in love with the guitar in the first place.
The pedal does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, if you'll pardon the expression. It isn't specific to any particular effect, buy gives the player a wide range of effects to accompany or enhance their own sounds - improving on what people hear from what they play (even if you are already very good).
Some multi-effects pedals include the ability to tap in your beat and select from a range of drum effects, which kind of makes you sound like you're in a band when you may in fact be playing on your own. Other effects include combining distortion effects with delay, feedback, clipping and more, besides. The main selling point is that a multi-effect pedal is so versatile that you can't quite get bored of it, unless you're bored of playing the guitar (in which case, this subject and even this article, won't be for you).
When you have a definitive shopping list of effects, you'll no doubt have a particular multi-effect pedal in mind. If you don't, try looking at online product reviews to see what people think of various models. Once you've done this, you could use the reviews to judge exactly what you want to spend (and maybe don't want to spend) on your desired model.