Reverb Effects for the Electric Guitar

Series Summary

Playing the guitar has been a popular hobby and skill for centuries. The guitar is a fretted and stringed instrument that is seen in acoustic and electric varieties. It is used in various types of music including country, music, salsa, rock and pop music. The most common style of guitar has six strings, but there are others including four, seven and eighteen strings. Knowledge of the body of the guitar is important for everyone who plays the guitar. The typical classical and electrical guitars have a headstock, nut, machine heads, frets, truss rod, inlays, neck, fretboard, heel, body, pickups, electronics, bridge, pickguard, back, soundboard, body sides, sound hole, strings, and saddles.

Get familiar with your guitar in these instructional videos. Learn new guitar effects and spice up your playing style after watching these clips. Learn new effects for the chorus of a song and get information on using reverb. Get tips on using a harmonizer to get a pitch shift guitar effect. Using a compressor, flanger, and phaser can add a new twist to your guitar playing skills. Also learn about pre-delays and delays for guitar effects. Tremelo, Auto Wah and Wah Wah are heavily used guitar effects that every player should be comfortable with. Expand your guitar playing skills with these expert guitar effects videos!

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Gary Schutt. We’re talking about guitar effects, right now it’s an effect called reverb. Reverb gives you a sound as if you’re playing in a small room, large concert hall, and cave, whatever. It’s a very cool thing to have, especially when you’re in a studio. Right now this is my dry signal with distortion and I think I have a small reverb going on here, a very small room reverb. Let’s turn this up a couple notches and here’s a bigger room. Let’s keep going and see what we’ve got. A bigger room. A big room. Really big room. I don’t know where we are, but it’s huge. You can do a cool effect called volume swells, if you have a really long reverb bond, you just take your volume knob, turn it down to zero, fret a note, then turn it on and then let it go. "