Comments on: @AES: Why Software Guitar FX Aren’t Just for Guitars

By: Hazel

Hazel — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:40:12 +0000

What do you or your friends think is the best effect to use on strings. I play electric fiddle…currently and lovingly with an ancient zoom and atate of the ark quadroverb. Looking to update to something which also favours distortion, overdrive, reverb and features pitch shift. Any Advice?
Cheers
Hazel

By: derek

derek — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:09:52 +0000

Aha, my guesty friend. Just remember that I didn’t say he invented it, he just made it popular. It’s not to say to say someone else wouldn’t have thought of it, but had he not slashed his speakers, rock would be a different place.

Hendrix didn’t invent the use of mayhem and feedback, nor was he the first to use it, however, he sure made a billion people fall in love with it.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:45:37 +0000

Well thanks Ray, but get in line (by 10 years or so) behind Link Wray, Paul Burlison, etc.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:38:53 +0000

My colleague was joking. ;-) Anyway, unless I’ve missed something, there seems to be no lack of love for guitarists. Guitars have everything from electric guitar concertos and a hallowed place in jazz to, let’s face it, near total domination over rock (sometimes, sadly, at the expense of keyboards, horn sections, and the like.) And they’re deserving of the love they get. So are amplified accordions, violins, sitars, jaw harps, kazoos, and . . . well, you get the idea.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:04:55 +0000

To quote the great Ludwig, “The guitar is a mini-orchestra”. You can thank Ray Davies of the kinks for distortion, and yes that means for ALL instruments. Using feedback as a sound source, yup thank another guitarist. The wah…. Yup more guitarists. Show us some guitarists some love, because, well, we rule.