Electric guitar people! help!?

Question:I have been playing acoustic guitar for 15 years and have become a bit of bad@##@$% on it if I do say so myself, but now I wanna play rock star so I bought a fender strat and a little 5 watt champion 600 tube amp. my question is about pedals....what type of pedal or pedals would you recommend...keep in mind that this is just my learning rig so simple and reasonably priced is what I am looking for...thanks. (oh yeah, I wanna play rolling stones, dire straits, bluesy british crunchy twangy music)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been playing acoustic guitar for 15 years and have become a bit of bad@##@$% on it if I do say so myself, but now I wanna play rock star so I bought a fender strat and a little 5 watt champion 600 tube amp. my question is about pedals....what type of pedal or pedals would you recommend...keep in mind that this is just my learning rig so simple and reasonably priced is what I am looking for...thanks. (oh yeah, I wanna play rolling stones, dire straits, bluesy british crunchy twangy music)

If you're looking for old rock, get an Ibanez Tube Screamer, preferably the TS808 build (the green one with the big aluminum button). That's the sound of 60s and 70s rock, period. It warms and breaks up the top end of your distortion, giving you that sweet pie crust of a tone. It's in the signal chain of about every big rock band. I'd also get a decent reverb pedal. Electro-Harmonix makes top-notch stompboxes that have serious vintage cred.

There's also another idea....get a POD. There's a bunch of them out there, and although the drift more twards the newer sounds, there's plenty of sweet vintage tone emulation on them, and for the cost of a Tube Screamer and a decent reverb pedal, you can get one. You have a Champ, so running the POD into a tube amp with sweeten the sound a little bit.

One last thing...the Champ is an honorable start for a beginning electric guitarist, but you may want to think about finding another amp with a little more versatility, like a used 30-watt combo with a master volume from any of your big-name amp makers. Epiphone has a sweet all-tube amp for cheap.

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Grab a Vox Wah pedal. When you kick that in as you solo, it really makes the solo kill.... IMO

A fuzz box, a volume pedal and a wha-wha. These should get you going realitivly easily.

I would say from my experience try a digitech rp100, its good investment and has lost of effects

buy an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808 reissue. It's a bit pricey buy you'll never need another distortion/overdrive pedal again. It's simply the best. If you don't want to spend alot buy an US made Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi. Another great distortion pedal.

I only use a Blues Driver. I get all the stuff you are talking about and I'm not an electronic nut. Our band plays a wide variety of music from Glenn Campbell to the Rolling Stones and the faithful Driver works for all of them. I've tried lots of stuff including pedal boards with multiple effects and find I don't really need hardly any of them for performance work. If you are doing a lot of recording, you might want to check on a Boss multi-effect pedal. I also use a pedal tuner. Very easy to read and cuts power to the amp so you can tune in silence on stage. My advice, take YOUR guitar to a good music store and spend a couple hours just playing with different stuff. As you probably know, it's more about the player than the brand of guitar, effects etc. good luck and never quit pickin'! peace

A fuzztone,echoplex for good repeat and sustain,a flanger,and maybe a wah wah

Go to a guitar center and try different sounds..see what you like.I would try a synthesizer,it gets alot of combined sounds.