Understanding Modulation-Based Effects on Pedal Boards

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Adam Anderson talking to you about modulation based affects on your pedal board and when I talk about modulation affects on your pedal board. Now when I talk abut modulation based affects, I am talking about your chorus pedals, your flangers, your phasers anything that manipulates the sort of wave of your guitar tone. The 2 pedals that I have out here right now are 2 chorus pedals and what the chorus pedal does is essentially when I talk about modulation based affects. It is essentially a time based affect but this is sort of a subsection of that. What a course pedal does is it is actually a very short delay and when I say very short delay, the pedal takes the guitar signal that goes through it, it holds on to that signal and plays it back in a very very short amount of time. We are talking seconds here and the actual affect that comes out of the chorus pedal is sort of a underwater sound, kind of a doubling sound. It's like 2 guitars playing at once. There are many different types of choruses. You have your digital choruses or your analog choruses. The 2 type of chorus pedals I have here are actually digital but they manipulate the sound to sound kind of like an analog sound."