Akarsh Shekhar
PEDALBOARD VS PROCESSOR : WHICH PATH SHOULD YOU TAKE ?
All guitarists face an important choice in their musical career : what to use for sound processing - a pedalboard or a processor ? Here are some answers :
PEDALBOARD Assembling your pedalboard is not an easy task . You can spend months or even years searching for the right sound . And all this despite the fact that the final sound will greatly depend on where the pedalboard is connected .
A pedalboard can consist of two or three pedals , or ten or even more elements - distortion effects , delays , tuners , preamps , equalizers , and so on and so forth .
Important : the sound setting will not be flexible - you will either need to buy a new pedal , or use what you have . This is one of the main pitfalls of pedalboarding ! But this switching option has many advantages :
• You assemble the pedalboard strictly for yourself - there will be no extra and unnecessary functions in it at all . This makes it easier to find the right sound and adapt the musician ;
• Maximum maintainability - you can repair almost any pedal yourself if you arm yourself with a soldering iron and go to an electronics store . In the worst case - to give it to the shop for repair , while remaining , albeit with a truncated version of sound processing , but still not completely without it ;
• Sound customization + better sound is debatable , but most musicians still claim that separate effect pedals sound better than their emulation in processors . However , a huge number of factors should be taken into account here ( where we connect it all , how we connect it all , who plays the guitar , where the performance will be , etc .)
• The reliability of the pedalboard components is also a controversial point , but many guitarists say that processors are less reliable than effects pedals .
PROCESSOR The essence of the processor lies in a simple principle - take it and play . The processor is , oddly enough , quite expensive .
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