Am I the only guitarist who...

[Jotun]

who only uses a distortion and no other sort of effects?!?! I hate it when someone asks me why I dont use a wah, or any otehr shit like that. The closest thing I get is a acoustic simulator pedal. Everything else is only distortion. My band thinks im a idiot cuz I dont like other effects. *sigh* Anyone else have the same problem as me or only uses distortion?

 

[Burning Darkness]

I don't use any other effects....but maybe thats just because i don't have any

 

[The Wanderer]

our guitarists have their distortion and a clean channel. thats it. their distortion tones are pretty complex though with lots of eq and compression and shit courtesy of a digitech 2120 and aural exciters

 

[Stormbringer]

i dont use many effects either.
but hey - i'm a bassist

 

[Nevermorian]

Who cares? If you like your sound, everything's fine.

 

[AARRGGHHH]

yeah it doesnt really matter what all else say. your guitar and sound is yours dammit. with my band band i do use various effects, mostly distortion, reverb and delay. But i do fuck about with loads of effects for the stuff i do outside of my band.
it just depends on what you like doing.

 

[yourdeadgroom]

I only use distortion. I am looking at getting a reverb pedal, and a harmonizer would be cool (although hardly ever get used), just for the occassional difference, but I'm happy with just my distortion.

 

[nevershine]

The only effect I use is a Wah...
I like to play the amp's own distortion...
Though you have to have a pretty good amp to be satisfied with the dist. sound...

 

[DayOfDarknessWithin]

Well I like my Zoom M.E Pedal, but it's good to just "keep it simple" (quoting my girlfriend), and just use distortion. If it's all you have then why worry about it, if you're talented enough to get by in a band with JUST distortion. Don't worry about it. I like to "unplug" my zoom every now and then and just use my Metal Zone, I actually think straight distortion sounds pretty good. Although it is nice to have a variety every now and then.

- Allan

 

[Jotun]

well I am a dull person, lol

 

[IrfaanSE801]

I have no effects. I plan on getting a Vox Wah and mayve a MXR Flanger, but that's about it. Have some good ideas on what to use the flanger for. When a get a new job....

 

[Dvoters]

I think I know what you are talking about bro. When I was in my old band, back in Aus, Morphus Machine, our guitartist was sota the same. He occaisionally used wah, but he didn't really like the other distortions. He thought the straight distortion sounded heavey, and so did all of us, so it stuck.
Just think bro's, Black Sabbath was classed as one of the heaviset bands around, for thier day, and still are. And they didn't use any fancy distortion pedals, did they?


\m/

 

[TinMan666]

I just plug my guitar into my amp.

Occasionally I use a wah, but that's all.

 

[7 Dying Trees]

Use effects on my clean sound, as I like a bit of chorus (but only light) and some reverb...

Rythm sound is just preamp distortion with guitar plugged in. No compression, no effects. Tighter that way.

Lead a bit of delay and wah

 

[Caroline]

I just use a distortion pedal and occasionally phazer for most things I do use some reverb/ delay if I'm recording to get a slightly more 'live' sound

 

[xenophobe]

No stomp boxes.... just using the distortion of my preamp.

 

[FlyingV]

I only use Cry Baby... Distortion comes from my Marshall. I hate guitar multieffects, etc.Exapathy Homepage

 

[Extortae]

I use the Metal Zone MT-2 from Boss for my distortion....and that's it.

 

[veil the sky]

i pay for a lot more effects ......but i use mainly just distortion

 

[Misanthrope]

No effects? no problem. Its really not about that, is more about what sound you are looking for, and what sound you are looking for in your band. I played with no effects for good 9 years, until i decided i needed harmonizer for my leads and some riffs, so i got me an rp200. Nowdays since im using alot of dissonant chords ( mainly mayor minor and dominant 7s with no 5ths ) with heavy distorsion, i needed someone to give me more clarity. So i started using chorus since i found it helps quite a bit, along with the equalizer using a lot of meds. I virtually use a modified lead distorsion for every riff since i need the extra clarity over the extra crunchy punch no mids give you.