Guitar Pedals

Gear9992

I have recently bought a Roland Cube 60 for my electric guitar.
It's a great amp, good sound and a load of effects.

The thing is I have recently joined a band and every time I have to switch from the clean channel to the distortion channel, or to turn on the effects, I have to press the little buttons. This was no problem before I joined the band but now that I'm in a band, I thinking of getting some pedals.
I was just wondering is there any basic pedals that can can just change the channel or tun on some effects, or will I have to buy a new distortion,reverb pedal etc.

I'm also thinking of getting new effect pedals like maybe a wah wah or whammy pedal and was wondering if these are good pedals to start off with and how much would a decent one set me back?

A7X

Gear9992 wrote: »

I have recently bought a Roland Cube 60 for my electric guitar.
It's a great amp, good sound and a load of effects.

The thing is I have recently joined a band and every time I have to switch from the clean channel to the distortion channel, or to turn on the effects, I have to press the little buttons. This was no problem before I joined the band but now that I'm in a band, I thinking of getting some pedals.
I was just wondering is there any basic pedals that can can just change the channel or tun on some effects, or will I have to buy a new distortion,reverb pedal etc.

I'm also thinking of getting new effect pedals like maybe a wah wah or whammy pedal and was wondering if these are good pedals to start off with and how much would a decent one set me back?

First of all, check to see if there is a place to stick in a footswitch on the amp. Im not familiar with the amp myself, someone else might be able to help.

rgjmce

one of my mates has a roland cube amp and i am pretty sure their isn't a spot to plug in a footswitch and don't think roland sell one anyways

rcaz

Well what effects are you interested in using? Find out the names of a few pedals you're interested in, and look them up on YouTube - there are tons of gear demo videos on there, they should start you in the right direction.

There's are zillions of different wah pedals, wah seems to be a very personal effect. One guy's perfect wah could sound like rubbish to anyone else. Get in the shops and try one out!

As for a Whammy pedal, there is only one Whammy pedal, the Digitech Whammy Great fun, but you'd want to make sure that kind of pitch shifting is definitely the effect you want - if you're not into the Whammy sounds in stuff like Rage Against The Machine and Radiohead, you might not be able to get any useful sounds from it. It's a very specific pedal.

As for distortions, my advice would be for your first pedal, get something your amp can't do. There are millions of distortion pedals, some that try to replicate the perfect JCM900/Plexi/whatever other fashionable amp people want to sound like, and then some others that do their own thing entirely. Get a few pedals that give you as many options as possible, and when you know more about how they work, what tones you like and how to get those tones, you can start specialising. Pedals hold their re-sale value pretty well.

I'd say go second-hand, too. No point shelling out for a pedal you're gonna end up selling on when you find out you want something better. I see buying pedals as a cycle rather than an accumulative thing.

Don't be snobby! Some of the €28 Behringer pedals do as good a job as other really expensive pedals. For example, if you want to try out what an analogue delay is like, why spend €169 on an MXR Carbon Copy when you can spend €28 on a Behringer VD400? Have a look at the Behringer and Danelectro range (the Dano Cool Cats are all great). Some of the Boss stuff is pretty cheap too.

Once you get a pedal or two, you'll want more and more and more, it's a vicious cycle, so be careful

Gear9992

A7X wrote: »

First of all, check to see if there is a place to stick in a footswitch on the amp. Im not familiar with the amp myself, someone else might be able to help.

I just had a look and it has 3 places to stick in a footswitch, one for reverb/delay, one for Efx and one for channel select so it's looking good.

Can I just buy a basic footswitch that I can use for these?

rcaz

Gear9992 wrote: »

I just had a look and it has 3 places to stick in a footswitch, one for reverb/delay, one for Efx and one for channel select so it's looking good.

Can I just buy a basic footswitch that I can use for these?

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