They may also be built into guitar amplifiers, instruments (such as the Hammond B-3 organ), tabletop units designed for DJs and record producers, and rackmounts, and are widely used as audio plug-ins in such common formats as VST, AAX, and AU.
Effects are often used as stompboxes, typically placed on the floor and controlled with footswitches. Some effects, particularly older ones such as Leslie speakers and spring reverbs, use mechanical components or vacuum tubes. Most modern effects use solid-state electronics or digital signal processors. Signal chain order: tuner, compressor, octave generator, wah-wah pedal, overdrive, distortion, fuzz, EQ and tremolo.Īn effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.Ĭommon effects include distortion/overdrive, often used with electric guitar in electric blues and rock music dynamic effects such as volume pedals and compressors, which affect loudness filters such as wah-wah pedals and graphic equalizers, which modify frequency ranges modulation effects, such as chorus, flangers and phasers pitch effects such as pitch shifters and time effects, such as reverb and delay, which create echoing sounds and emulate the sound of different spaces. A pedalboard allows a performer to create a ready-to-use chain of multiple pedals to achieve certain types of sounds.
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