Guitar Effects Pedals - Choosing The Right One

Guitar effects pedals are always used these days with electric guitars because of their versatility and wide range of sounds.
Guitars now don't sound like guitars any more because of the impact effects have made on them. Whether its in the studio or live on stage many musicians will manipulate one or a mix of effects to make amazing sounds with their instruments.

Distortion is one of the most popular effects especially with rock music. It creates a distorted sound and depending on how you use the settings you could use this effect for metal sounds or softer indie sounding music.
Echo is also one of the most commonly used guitar effects in many different genres of music. It gives a great big sound to your guitar and for this effect you would be playing maybe slower quiet music.

Wah Wah is an effect in which you have to buy an extra pedal which almost looks like a throttle for a car and as you move your foot up and down on the pedal the sound you get is used mainly in funk or soul and sometimes in blues or rock as well. Definitely get a wah pedal if you're going to be playing funky music.

The ebow is a small hand held device which, when turned on, creates an electro-magnetic field which vibrates the strings when it is near to contacting them. This creates a huge sweeping and highly sustained sound which offers limitless possibilities on which to experiment. Get this if you want to play more experimental music.

I hope this has helped you in choosing the right pedal