How to Set Levels for Modulation-based Effect Pedals

Video Transcript

"I am going to talk to you about setting your modulation based affects and the modulation based affect that I have on my pedal board right here is the chorus pedal. This individual chorus pedal that I have right here has the luxury of storing different sounds, different settings in the actual pedal. But not all modulation based effects have that certain feature. So the most important knob sort of on the modulation based effect is the effect level. It really depends on the type of sounds you are going for. If you are using the modulation effect as a sort of special effect to be used in just a certain portion of the song, you will probably want to have your effect level up a little bit higher so that you can turn it on and off so that it will sound more like a special effect. But what I personally use it for is to just sort of make the guitar a little bit thicker sounding so that it sort of fills up the sound especially when you are maybe the only guitar player in the band. So what I want to do is maybe to set the effects level maybe a little louder. But again, it all depends on your individual situation and the individual venue you are playing in. If it is a small venue, it probably doesn't matter so much to have the effect level up so high. But maybe if it is a larger venue and you want to fill up the room a little bit more, crank up the effect level a little more. That gives you a bigger guitar sound."