3. Do I need pedals? I’ve heard they further change the sound of the guitar, but what exactly is changed by pedals that isn’t changed by an amp?
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>>128209199You don't even need electricity if you're as good as Bob Dylan.
>>128209199The Fender/Squier Frontman 10G is great for playing at home.The amplifier distortion does a good job but it depends on the type of music you want to play, each pedal has its own sound, you just have to choose, youtube can help youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SIduCQGWG0I have Boss Ds1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1AEtgJWD4You do have an Aux jack, so you can connect your amp to your PC and use a program. There are several programs available that can recreate any type of pedal or amplifier sound.Personally, I'm old-school; I prefer a guitar with a pedal and amplifier. The Aux jack allows me to connect my stereo to a CD player, so I can play my favorite songs with all the instruments and the original vocals without needing a band. Entertainment is guaranteed.
>>128209199Pretty much all of guitar tone is just some combination of EQ and distortion. Pedals are a convenient and flexible way of adding it. You can simulate any amp tone with EQ and distortion:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYkSpeaker/cab sound is EQ too but with a really complicated frequency response. You can simulate it with impulse responses recorded from real cabs. Theoretically there's also distortion here but in practice most recordings rely on the pedals/amp for the distortion and don't record so loud that the speaker distorts.
Are there any tube amps I can use for guitar and vocals? If not- what do you recommend for vocals?I'm trying to learn vocals and also I really want to make a whole song if I'm honest.
Start here. Download some books. Use the slow downloads on the page, you'll see...https://annas-archive.org/search?q=guitar+pedalsLook for the Guitar Amps & Effects for Dummies series. It's probably at your level. Not insulting you...just saying, it introduces you to everything like you were 5.Basically pedals do effects, flanger, chorus, distortion, etc. You can dial in a lot of a good quality amp but you can't do wah wah for example. That comes from a pedal. Pedals also do looping unless it's built into a guitar (it is a thing with some high end acoustic guitars like a HyVibe acoustic - ps Justin Johnson is amazing but that's another rabbit hole)HyVibe Acoustic Guitar Demohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFTZBErh60AAnyhow I only show you that acoustic guitar demo because all those effects pedals are now built into the instrument's electronics kinda like a cellphone. However, pedals are much more user friendly in a gig setting. Just step on a click switch and do your thing. Step on it again and shut it off type thing. Stage musicians often have a full pedal board with all their favorites daisy chained together.With the HyVibe acoustic there you can set stuff up via presets, kinda like bookmarks in a web browser. So all your favs for a particular song are set to one favorite. You can then follow a set list and really become a one piece band...it's nuts.
>>128214124PS, you can get multi-effects boxes too that basically are a whole shit ton of effects pedals in one unit. This is an article on that which should get you up to speed.https://www.guitarworld.com/features/best-multi-effects-pedals-for-guitaristsI have a multi-effects box and though it was expensive at first, it has basically unlimited effects I can setup with it. I can set my favs too for songs. It's basically what's built into that hyvibe but much better and way more options.
>>128211415truth. watch how the old heads on stage with him look at him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6_Q5IjU3k
If you have to ask this question you shouldn't even be playing plugged in yet
>>128209199Just crank everything to 10 and hope for the best
>>128209199>what exactly is changed by pedals that isn’t changed by an amp?That depends on the amp and its actual circuit. Some amps have builtin effects, even vintage ones. Think tremolo in fender and marshall tube amps from the 60s. Or chorus like the famous roland JC series. Or reverb like almost any amp ever.There is no hard line, most of it is marketing. Every fucking overdrive/distortion pedal ever is basically also a preamp by definition. And every non drive pedal will have it's own dedicated preamp builtin.That being said, if you actually want to "change" the sound your biggest bet is basically what >>128212891 said:If you like real physical hardware, get different speakers. Speakers are surprisingly cheap compared to amps, pedals and guitars and they make an insane difference.If on the other hand you do not care for physical hardware, just go the impulse response route because that will be even more flexible for less money. IRs capture speaker/microphone combinations with 100% accuracy. Don't let any snob tell you otherwise.
>>128209199this amp is garbage ngl
>>128218028aw that's my fookin amp rn
>>128209199Get a line 6, bitch
>>128211415>>128214199>jewish twink changes his hair and goes on stage with an electric >Americans literally piss and shit their pants
>>128209199I don't know the exact science or the pseudo science, just my own two cents. Pedals are another tool at getting the sound you want. Cheap little practice amps aren't the same thing as those huge 4 speaker cabinets with the amp head on top. So I guess that is what is meant by it isn't the same. Cause a pedal has its own sound and so do tube amps with actual analog technology that aren't digital. Pedals are convenient. Stomp on the switch to turn it on and off. Adjust it to your liking and get the sound you want. Maybe invest in an EQ pedal to dial in the sound
>>128218028If you need to practice at home, it's a great amp, and Fender isn't garbage.At home, you don't need a 1000W tube Marshall unless you want to blow out windows.A 10-15W amp is more than fine, but obviously if you need to use it for live concerts, that's a different story; in that case, you'll need a very powerful amp.
