Reverb is an echo effect reminiscent to sound you get when you are overlooking a canyon and can’t resist the urge to shout “hello” and hear it echo back at you. This probably makes reverb one of the first know sound altering effects to man. If you want an example of reverb turn the reverb knob all the way up on your guitar and strum it. Immediately deaden the strings with your hand and you should hear the echo reverberate from the speaker.Read More »Reverb
Early forms of the talk box such as the Heil Talk Box (developed in the 1970s) used the guitar amplifier’s output to drive a speaker… Read More »Talk Box
A Vibe or rotary speaker simulator pedal reproduces the sound of a rotating speaker. This is accomplished by synchronizing volume oscillation, frequency-specific volume oscillation, vibrato… Read More »Vibe
Hi-Gain (descended from the more generic electric guitar amplification term high-gain) is the sound most used in heavy metal. High gain in normal electric guitar… Read More »Hi-Gain
Fuzz is intended to recreate the classic 1960’s tone of an overdriven tube amp combined with torn speaker cones. Old school guitar players (like Link… Read More »Fuzz
Every song has a key signature.
A key signature tells us what originating tone a song is to be performed in. It can either be major or minor.Read More »Key Signature
Aleatory music is an extremely random style of music. The composer and/or the performer will randomly pick musical materials and make it into a piece… Read More »Aleatory Music or Chance Music
When writing music down on paper for other musicians to play the music is divided into what is called measures. The measures are divided with vertical… Read More »Measures
A Wah-wah pedal is a foot-operated pedal, technically a kind of band-pass filter, which allows only a small portion of the incoming signal’s frequencies to… Read More »Wah-Wah
An Equalizer adjusts the frequency response in a number of different frequency bands. A graphic equalizer (or “graphic EQ”) provides slider controls for a number of frequency region. Each of these bands has a fixed width (Q) and a fixed center-frequency, and as such, the slider changes only the level of the frequency band. Read More »Equalizer
