I gotta question...

Hi im a newbie at playing the electric guitar and I was wondering what are guitar pedals? I`ve been hearing a little bit about them and was wondering what they were.

_D.M._ :;)

Pedals, (also called 'stompboxes'), are small self-contained units that add effects to the signal from the guitar before sending it to the amp. They can add adjustable levels of gain (overdrive), distortion, echo, chorus, flanging, or EQ (equalisation). Some of the higher-cost units combine a whole bunch of selectable effects in one box (MultiFX). Click the Search icon at the top of the page to dig around in previous threads for discussions of each type, and the relative merits of each brand.

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