guitar with built in effects

[Wattage]

Re: guitar with built in effects

Gibson had the RD Artist and an LP Artisan that had built in effects and Electra had some guitars as well. Problem is how the hell are you going to mass market it, think of all the pedals people use. It is a good specialty but not mass produced.

 

[karpathion]

Re: guitar with built in effects

Gibson had the RD Artist and an LP Artisan that had built in effects and Electra had some guitars as well. Problem is how the hell are you going to mass market it, think of all the pedals people use. It is a good specialty but not mass produced.

i'm just trying to mod my personal guitar, it's got nothing to do with marketing, and mass consumption. i just think it would be cool to have an ibanez tube screamer in my guitar. :dunno:

 

[blueman335]

Re: guitar with built in effects

I could see it being especially useful if you had all true bypass effects, but, then, your distortion/gain is at the start of the chain.

For full blown time based effects, I dunno, they are usually bigger than a regular control cavity, and I you probably wouldn't want them at the start of the chain either.

Excellent point that I missed.

Maybe a volume boost built inside a guitar, but overdrive/distortion has drawbacks.

 

[karpathion]

Re: guitar with built in effects

Excellent point that I missed.

Maybe a volume boost built inside a guitar, but overdrive/distortion has drawbacks.

yea, i didn't think about that part either. you be limited to certian effects. no compresors for shure. you can use a wah like a reverb box and additional line boosts, but thats about it huh?

 

[Sanford]

Re: guitar with built in effects

Go ahead and do it, should be a fun process. Who knows, you might even like the results.