5 Pedal Types Every Beginner Should Have
There are so many options today for different guitar pedals, and it can get overwhelming if you don’t have a lot of experience buying and trading and playing pedals. So today we’re taking a look at 5 types of pedals that every beginning guitar player should have on their first board.
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Two Notes Torpedo Captor X (affiliate link):
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JHS Morning Glory (affiliate link):
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LPD Eighty7:
https://www.lpdpedals.com/store/p/lpd-eighty7
Vertex Boost (affiliate link):
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Teisco Boost:
Teisco Boost Pedal
JHS Series 3 Chorus (affiliate link):
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Caroline Guitar Company Parabola:
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Strymon Zelzah (affiliate link):
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Solid Gold FX NU-33:
NU-33 – VINYL ENGINE
Solid Gold FX Oblivion:
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Mythos Oracle:
Oracle Analog Echo
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Sennheiser MKH416 Shotgun Mic
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Originally posted by UCCJ56k8nBeqWLoxNa6DToAQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4Syx97GdY
The right flanger can give you Phaser, Chorus and Flanging sounds – I don't mean a 3:1 pedal. I mean a flanger. I like the MXR for this. I can get a lot of modulation from it.
Starting out at 12 40 year’s ago I was lucky my older brother bought me a cheap Memphis Flying V. That burned in a fire just months later. I used to start my dirt bike in the basement and drive it out. My friends dad who is a mechanic had just done work on the carburetor and the next day I had trouble getting it started and on about the 10th kickstart attempt it blew up in my face, fell against the basement wall and burned the house down. Luckily we all got out unharmed but the dirt bike and my guitar were toast along with everything else. Started working at 14 and saved up for a strat style Ibanez with a Floyd rose. Saved again and got a small Marshall stack. That was my start in the guitar world. These days I just play my tele through a clean amp with a few pedals in front. Never gigged or anything, just a home player that loves the guitar. My suggestion to beginners would be to avoid GAS at all costs and it will save you a lot of time and money. But most importantly have fun.
Thanks for your work on the video.
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I would definitely include a compressor in that must have pedal mix ✅
Budget friendly gear continues to get better and better every single year.
Also I’ve literally never heard anyone say that beginners shouldn’t get a reverb lol
I have to say, all of the recommendations in this video are super out of touch, and not realistic purchases for a beginner guitar player in the slightest… with the exception of the JHS 3 series pedals, those are still on the higher end of “budget” pedals I would say, but they’re great pedals.
If I was to start from scratch right now, and build a budget board for 300$ these are the 5 pedals I would pick: Behringer TO-800 overdrive, Mooer Mod factory 2, Joyo D-Seed 2, Behringer DR-600, and Mooer Preamp model X.
That’s literally a tubescreamer circuit for 25$, a pedal with most types of modulation in one, a good delay with tap tempo and several delay types and controls, a decent reverb, and a really solid amp sim pedal that can even load 3rd party amp captures and IRs. All of that for just around 300$, which is still cheaper than some of the single pedals he recommends in this video lol. you’re covering all the basics and getting an amp.
Mooer, Tone City, Behringer, and Boss are the brands I would recommend for beginners to look into. Because they’re very affordable, but they’re also really good. Like good enough that I would use them along side my super high end boutique stuff and they would pull their weight.
After you actually get some time playing with effects and learning what you like and don’t, then start looking into more pricy pedals.
centurion clone
0p amp big muff
Mxr phase 90
Mxr chorus
Cry baby
Then a delay when you get bored again.
Really informative!!!! Thanks man
Good Video Rhett
It might be just me but I am not a fan of any of the modulation sounds especially chorus.
Question, I’m a beginner when it comes to pedals and amps,, I have a modeling amp and someone gave me a few pedals,, I’m wondering which of your courses should I take to help me learn to set up my amp with my semi hollow guitar,, mostly Tom Petty song types. Thanks
The correct terminology is boosts of colour, not coloured boost.
Does any of this apply to acoustic-electrics? I got one, but I haven't done anything with the electric part, yet. I've never had an electric guitar before, so I don't really have any experience there.
You don't need any pedals unless you have a garbage amp.
Hey Rhett – Great information here. Is there a particular order to laying out the pedals?
All you need to know about pedals; Run away, save yourself, it's a black hole that will suck you in.
Thanks for a great informative video ????????
Rhett, who turned your ceiling fan off? You can see it slow down and stop as you start the delay&reverb section. ????
As a semi retired noodler I'm more interested in these new multi effect all in one amp/pedal sim units. I'm sure they're not close to 'real'…but close enough for me
I’ve learned to run my clean volume booster thru the effects loop. Big difference!!!!!
Suggesting a new guitar player "needs" 5 pedals is just odd. I played for years and years with nothing, just a footswitch to change the amp from clean to drive, that was it.
No compressor or noise gate?
Very helpful brother!
Its ok im a reverb addict also ill have my amps spring reverb on ten ill stack plate reverb and slap back echo on top of it just as a basic sound and use other delays and reverbs on top of it to add even more dimension and of course theres some from of modulation going on wether in the trails or as a more prominent sound.yes i know im an effects addict and I refuse to get help for too long was i deprived off effects and had to play acoustic guitar or a crappy electric guitar through a battery powered amp with the worst overdrive on the planet built in
Great video, Rhett! I’m overwhelmed by the choice of pedals in this really helps
I started playing guitar over 50 years ago. Been steady at it all these years, some spans of years more so than others. With that out of the way …
The best thing for any serious musician, including beginner (that is, if you are really serious), is to not have any pedals at all, not even a tuner (just a pitch fork).
My first "good" guitar, which I still have, is a Univox LP-JR-DC single-P90 (limited edition). That guitar is sooo underrated, even by myself (neck dive notwithstanding). The Univox even has an adjustable bridge, although intonation has been perfect over the years.
I mention the LP-JR because I would just plug it straight in to the left (or right) channel of my cassette recorder and create new music from scratch. No pedals.
If anything, the idea of requiring toys is the antithesis of musical creation. The toys should come afterward.
My past year's worth of music videos on my channel feature acoustic guitars, and I use the "woody" amp model of the Pod Go, or I use an SM58 / Zoom-H1N direct to mixer. I have a playlist for that. Your toys should be usable for clean tones, first.
LOL your money has gotten way up to your head bud
I’ve been playing for awhile but have never dabbled with pedals. This may seem like a dumb question but why pay $80 for a boost peddle when the volume knob in the equalizer of the amp is the exact same thing according to the way you described the boost pedal?
Love it man. And I love the way you cruise that reverb. Thanks for the great pointers.
A similar post on setting up modelers would be helpful.
really useful cheers dude
"Beginner" means "in process of practicing/learning".
So any cheap overdrive pedal would be OK, as well as some basic distortion with relatively transparent sound providing readable attack (like Boss DS-1 or Digitech Hot Head). Distortion pedals with FAT sound (like Seymour Duncan SFX-08) should be avoided unless a guitar player doesn't know how to combine it with tube screamer-ish overdrive.
Practice routines require dry sound so no extra FX pedals are needed.
Great explanation/demo, Rhett!
My first pedals were Arion pedals.
The most noticeable flub on this video is the word “beginner” alongside a thumbnail of a board with $1,200.
I only have a cheap ish boss sd-1 and that does everything I might need a pedal to do (besides chorus)
Riddle me this Mr. Schull… Edward Van Halen despised overdrive pedals as he believed in the amps natural distortion, yet he ended up selling his own brand of overdrive/distortion pedal through MXR. I never understood that. Unless it was a "moneygrab" What sayeth you?
And as for pedals that beginners should stay away from: coming in at number 1 with a bullet: compression.
It's probably the only pedal that can lead to you becoming a worse player than you were before you started using it. I didn't get into compression until i had been playing for years. I remember the first time i ever plugged my Strat into a Dyna Comp set to 10:00 and into a clean amp…OMG it was awesome. The way every note of an arpeggio just popped, and the percussive click that Dyna Comps (and only Dyna Comps) produce was glorious, and it quickly became an "always on" pedal. A few months later the battery died and i didn't have another one on hand, so i had to pull the Dyna out of my chain (not true bypass so i had to). As soon as I started playing, I noticed pretty quickly that my playing had completely gone to shit, and i couldn't figure out why. Notes were being deadened because i wasn't fretting them properly and my dynamics were all over the place. In regards to the dynamics i don't think you could pick a worse combination to have it happen to than a Strat into a clean amp. The compressor had become a crutch that i hadn't realized i had been using. Notes that shouldn't ring because of sloppy technique had sounded fine with compression, and so on and so on.
I'm grateful it happened though, and happened when i was just playing at home because it was a HUGE education that i didn't know i needed. Since then i have always been wary of "always on," pedals, even if they wouldn't have the same affect as the compressor. I just became nervous of relying on pedals for my sound, so after that it was always about getting the best possible tone i can from the guitar and amp (this when i discovered that the guitar tone control actually does have a use????), and everything else is just a spoon full of sugar to help the medicine to go down.
Another thing that more experienced players may want to try is turning off the reverb. I had played with a guy a few times, and then didn't see him for a year or so. When i played with him again his tone had changed noticably: it had become enviously killer. It's not like he was suddenly playing at a higher level, it was just that what he played sounded SO good. He swore it was because his reverb pedal shit the bed on him and he couldn't afford to replace it right away and had to play into a dry amp for a few weeks. I did the same, and he was absolutely right. It took a couple days to get used to the reverb not being there, but after that i didn't really notice it anymore. When the reverb isn't there it's almost like your tone become naked, laid bare for all to see (or hear). I had to make adjustments with how i played so the note and chords themselves rang out more and my bends and vibrato became more nuanced. At the very least you learn that if you're going to be dialing in your rig, leave the reverb for last, even after delay.
Hi Rhett! Thanks for this great video!
Please let me know where would an acoustic simulator be in the pedal chain.
I’m in Fayetteville! Let’s link
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