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I stopped reading at the first sentence: "It’s a well-established fact that a guitarist’s acumen can be accurately gauged by the size of their pedal board- the
by patfla 5y ago
I stopped reading at the first sentence:
"It’s a well-established fact that a guitarist’s acumen can be accurately gauged by the size of their pedal board- the more stompboxes, the better the player."
As both a software engineer and a guitarist, I'd say the opposite is true. Or at least truer. You can't do math-rock without a lot of pedals but the hard part is to acquire the chops. A lot of pedals, and production effects generally, quickly become cliches and it's like dropping down a musical black hole. Someone like Hendrix could take a new effect (superset of pedals) and make it work musically brilliantly but most pedal users buy the pedal to get someone else's sound.
- ushakov 5y agodon’t take it too literally, i’m pretty sure this was meant as a sarcastic joke by the author :D
- patfla 5y agoMaybe I should have read past the first sentence. The joke's on me.
- awsanswers 5y agoI believe that was sarcasm
- pier25 5y agoIf it wasn't obvious this was a joke, the following paragraph starts with: "Jokes aside..."
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- u_gene 5y ago..but most pedal users buy the pedal to.. show off in-front of others who don't have that pedal. period. GarageBand has 1000 of pedals, people don't need more pedals, they need to practice more, but they don't understand that. That's why they are buying more pedals while keep dragging about how much they care about green/clean planet.