You look like a bassist to me, but it all depends on what you want to do, really, either instrument is awesome.
I'm not sure what a bassist looks like, but fair enough. Well, except there was one Bassist for Status Quo, around '92 or so, who looked inbred, but I think he was from the south, maybe around west country, so it's understandable.
Plus the skills from one transfer over to the other to some degree if you ever decide to switch.
True, true - could be useful to start at guitar, then, but I'm still not sure.
So, I had some bad GAS (guitar acquisition syndrome) the other day and...well, let me just leave you guys with the newest member of my family in this cheery and beautiful porn picture.
I'm thinking about buying my first two pedals since I'm currently trying to get more into playing shoegaze. I've decided to go for the "Big Muff" and the Boss DD-7. I think I may be buying a few more pedals as I get used to those two and I have enough money, but I'm not sure how to go about supplying my pedals with power. Any suggestions?
Man, been a while since I touched a guitar. I have probably forgotten a lot. Too much. Aaaaanyway:
I'm thinking about buying my first two pedals since I'm currently trying to get more into playing shoegaze. I've decided to go for the "Big Muff" and the Boss DD-7. I think I may be buying a few more pedals as I get used to those two and I have enough money, but I'm not sure how to go about supplying my pedals with power. Any suggestions?
You're going to want to look up the voltages for each pedal and get or build a pedalboard.
Shoegaze? Don't you need a lot of gain for that? what amp do you have? what type of sound do you want? (Linking to bands is also good.) Budget? I can recommend a pedal based on those questions.
Currently I have some shitty small amp at home for practicing. In our rehearsal room we have a pretty good amp, though I'm not sure which one exactly. Buying a new amp for myself is further down the road. I'm not quite sure which sound I'd like exactly, I'd hope to kind of "find my own" whilst experimenting. I guess this comes closest to what I'm thinking of.
My budget for the two pedals is at most 200€.
EDIT: Although now that I'm starting to think about it getting a new amp might also not be a bad idea. Could you maybe also give me suggestions what amps would be good for such music?
Well now, to get that tone, I think a good reverb would be more important than a distortion box. Way more important. A good amp depends on budget, and with 200, I think you might as well save up and get an amp first, because how good a stomp box sounds heavily relies on the amp you're running it though. For example, my metal Muff (which is, in my opinion, the best "muff" pedal) was able to destroy when used with my old Mesa amplifier, but running it through my line 6 practice amp is auditory suicide.
Allow me to pass on a piece of wisdom to you that I finally figured out recently about shoegazey guitar. It always frustrated me how, no matter how much fiddling I did, I could never fins a reverb setting that was ever able to give me exactly the effect I wanted. This is because, more often than not, those beautiful reverby guitar sounds that you hear on studio recordings are achieved by playing and layering the same guitar part over and over and over and over itself until you reach the desired effect. This is the process that a reverb pedal will simulate, but can hardly ever fully duplicate. Keep that in mind and you will spare yourself a lot of heartache over your guitar tone.
Allow me to pass on a piece of wisdom to you that I finally figured out recently about shoegazey guitar. It always frustrated me how, no matter how much fiddling I did, I could never fins a reverb setting that was ever able to give me exactly the effect I wanted. This is because, more often than not, those beautiful reverby guitar sounds that you hear on studio recordings are achieved by playing and layering the same guitar part over and over and over and over itself until you reach the desired effect. This is the process that a reverb pedal will simulate, but can hardly ever fully duplicate. Keep that in mind and you will spare yourself a lot of heartache over your guitar tone.
Delay + almost none existent delay time(1-5 milliseconds)+ delay volume level equal to the guitar = overlay effect. One of the many live tricks that time shows you.
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The "mmm" was supposed to imply "delicious".
My budget for the two pedals is at most 200€.
EDIT: Although now that I'm starting to think about it getting a new amp might also not be a bad idea. Could you maybe also give me suggestions what amps would be good for such music?