GUITAR TONE PRODUCTION - Amir Alav Arman Paxad www.AmirAlav.com

GUITAR TONE PRODUCTION

        Amir Alav
       Arman Paxad

      www.AmirAlav.com

GUITAR PARTS

WOODS

STRINGS

PICKUPS

GUITAR ACCESSORIES

IMPEDANCE

GUITAR CABLE

Slide show TAHA

HI-Z / LOW-Z

HI-Z / LOW-Z

HI-Z / LOW-Z

EFFECTS

EFFECT PEDALS
Stomp boxes, or effects pedals, are effects units designed to sit on the floor or a pedalboard and be turned on and off
with the user's feet. They typically house a single effect.

RACKMOUNT
Rackmounts are most commonly used in recording studios and "front of house" live sound mixing situations, though
many musicians use them in place of stompboxes. Rackmounts are controlled by knobs or switches on their front
panel, and often by a MIDI digital control interface. During live performances, a musician can operate rackmounted
effects using a "foot controller“. (Amir)

BUILT-IN

MULTI-EFFECTS

PLUGINS

EFFECTS CATEGORIES

BASIC SIGNAL CHAIN

• Understanding the Building Blocks of the Signal Chain (Taha)

ROUTING

ROUTING

SIGNAL CHAIN

TRUE BYPASS / BUFFER BYPASS

BUFFER

TUNER - BUFER

NOISE GATE

WAH WAH
• Technically it is a band pass or high Q lowpass filter.
• Engineers at VOX noticed that a midrange boost amplifier circuit
  made a distinctive vocal sound when switching between two frequencies.
• The pedal sweeps the peak response of a frequency filter up and down in frequency to
  create the sound, a spectral glide, also known as "the wah effect".
• Auto wah

EQ B ASED

• Ring Modular
• Envelop Filters or Auto Wahs

EQUALIZER

VOLUME OR EXPRESSION PEDAL
High or Low Impedance
Active or Passive Pedal

COMPRESSOR
• compression is dynamic volume attenuation. It makes loud sounds quieter,
  and quiet sounds louder.

DISTORTION & OVERDRIVE & FUZZ
• One of the channels on the board was “broken” and produced a distorted sound. He decided
  to use it to record Grady Martin’s guitar solo on the Marty Robbins’ tune “Don’t Worry”.
• Overdrive — Audio at a low input level is driven by higher input levels in a non-linear curve
  characteristic
• Distortion — a wider tonal area than overdrive operating at a higher non-linear region of a
  curve
• Fuzz — complete non-linear behavior , harder/harsher than distortion

FUZZ & DISTORTION & OVERDRIVE

• What is the difference between Fuzz, Distortion, and Overdrive?

FUZZ

Germanium or Silicon Fuzz

LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR
• Low-frequency oscillation (LFO) is an electronic signal which is usually below
  20 Hz and creates a rhythmic pulse or sweep. This pulse or sweep is often used to
  modulate synthesizers, delay lines and other audio equipment in order to create
  effects used in the production of electronic music.Audio effects such
  as vibrato, tremolo and phasing are examples

CHORUS
• The Chorus effect delays the original signal. The delay time is modulated with an
  LFO. The delayed, modulated signal is mixed with the original, dry signal.
• Provides a vibrato or pitch modulation effect.

FLANGER
• The Flanger effect works in much the same way as the Chorus effect, but it uses a
  significantly shorter delay time. In addition, the effect signal can be feedback into
  the input of the delay line.

PHASER
The Phaser effect combines the original signal with a copy that is slightly out of phase
  with the original. This means that the amplitudes of the two signals reach their
  highest and lowest points at slightly different times. The timing differences between
  the two signals are modulated by two independent LFOs

TREMOLO
The Tremolo effect modulates the amplitude of the incoming signal, resulting in
periodic volume changes. You’ll recognize this effect from vintage guitar combo amps
(where it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as vibrato). The graphic display shows all
parameters, except Rate.

VIBRATO
Pulsating change of pitch
Vibrato is typically characterized in terms of two factors: the amount of pitch variation
("extent of vibrato”) and the speed with which the pitch is varied ("rate of vibrato")
Uni Vibe

DELAY
an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of
time. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into
the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating, decaying echo.

DELAY (ECHO)

REVERB

REVERB

FX LOOP

FX LOOP

FX LOOP

NOISE

NOISE

AMPLIFIERS

AMPLIFIER TYPES

AMPLIFIER SIGNAL CHAIN

AMPLIFIER SIGNAL CHAIN

TRIODE CIRCUIT

ANALOG – DIGITAL – SOLID STATE

ATTENUATOR

ISOLATION

ISOLATION

SPEAKER

SPEAKER WIRING

Speakers wired in parallel:                    Speakers wired in series:

SPEAKER WIRING

Speakers wired in series- parallel:

OPEN B ACK / CLOSE B ACK

OPEN B ACK / CLOSE B ACK

OPEN B ACK / CLOSE B ACK

DYNAMIC MICS

CONDENSER MICS

RIBBON MICS

PHASE

HEADROOM

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