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Effects pedals are designed to hide the lack of talent of the "musician" who is using them.
How many do you have now Betty?

Considerably less than this fellow had:




&, loads and loads less than this "lack of talent" guy too:

No pedals have i.
Pedals i have none.
Pedals seemed to pass me by.
Because Betty cornered the market.



They call him Betty twelve toes,
Pedalman of The Shifters.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Too Slayer for me. Give me a lend of the Soul Food pedal if you're not using it.

Have a go at this, it's quite hard... still trying to nail the run down to A.

He needs to get himself a Strat

Just came across these vids.
There was me thinking you just bought a leccy guitar, plugged it in, twiddled a few knobs to select your sound and away you go.

Originally Posted by Gazza

There was me thinking you just bought a leccy guitar, plugged it in, twiddled a few knobs to select your sound and away you go.

Yup, that's pretty much it

You people are insane!

Here are a few more pedals I've been using this week:

The first three were lent by a friend...



The Okko Dominator is quite a heavy distortion, not needed as the Randall has more than enough by itself. It's a very good box if you like that kind of thing.



This is a nice little Jap made OD/distortion, it's very tight, and designed by BJF (Blow Job Freddie?) who is one of the best pedal designers (Bearfoot and Mad Scientist). I like this pedal, might swap it for my La Machine Fuzz as the Keeley Fuzz has all the fuzz sounds I need. I do need a strat or tele or P90 guitar really, as I'm playing with my coils split most of the time nowadays...



This emulates a plexi. It's quite nice on a clean amp, but I'm mostly using the Randall, so don't really need it...



A bit of potential for distortion with thoses going through the Randall!


Here is the only one I actually bought and it's just a polyphonic tuner:



It is good...

So if the power's off yer silenced? Keep music live play a goatskin

^ for emergencies. But, here in the real world, the power doesn't cut off...

Nice I had a couple of pianos,Telecaster and a Framus until I realized I had no talent for strings and stick to pink oboe

Here's some real guitar

^ wank... At a fundamental level, he misunderstands what a guitar is for.


Framus' are supposed to be very nice indeed. How was yours?

Sold for a ticket to Vienna, it was a very well made machine at the time far ahead of my talent

Originally Posted by david44

far ahead of my talent

I know that feeling oh so well...

Originally Posted by david44

Nice I had a couple of pianos,Telecaster and a Framus

Really?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

The first three were lent by a friend...

It's ok Betty, you don't have to make excuses to us...

Mindless consumers and wasters.

Creating a good feeling for yourself from nothing.

Originally Posted by Neo

It's ok Betty, you don't have to make excuses to us...

I'm pleased to hear that because I've got three more pedals arriving this week...

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Mindless consumers and wasters.

Guilty and guilty.

Go play with the traffic Jeff, it costs nothing.

Yeah....go on....play along with with em.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

If I were you I would forget about the electric option as you can cheat on these things and just play sound, distortion and re-verb and not the guitar.

Buy an acoustic guitar and when you are happy you can play a number of cords cleanly then buy an electric guitar.

Good idea. Green sent.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I've realized that the problem in the past has been that I've gone too cheap; you can't learn on crap products

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Originally Posted by Bogon

Why don't you just pop out and buy a cheap arse acoustic to mess about and do some 3 chord tricks until you pick up the electric?

Or build your own cheap arse electric: