Favorite effect for church

[kinggabbo]

Tremolo. To me, it's very versatile, can be used on lots of songs and sound good.

[Teleworshipkid]

Originally Posted by Thighbanez

Dotted 8th and ambient DELAY.
Hides the fact that I stink at guitar...hehe.

Except for the fact that it repeats all of you mistakes, making them stand out even more!

[mrboson]

Originally Posted by Thighbanez

Dotted 8th and ambient DELAY.
Hides the fact that I stink at guitar...hehe.

Originally Posted by Teleworshipkid

Except for the fact that it repeats all of you mistakes, making them stand out even more!

Yeah, I actually think it takes quite a bit of skill to play well with delay, especially dotted eight.

[bawdyli'lmonkey]

Originally Posted by mrboson

Yeah, I actually think it takes quite a bit of skill to play well with delay, especially dotted eight.

Skill, and a band that can keep a steady tempo.

[bossking7]

Reverb/Chorus

[Thighbanez]

Originally Posted by Teleworshipkid

Except for the fact that it repeats all of you mistakes, making them stand out even more!

When the mistakes wash into each other they cancel each other out and leave the goodness...lol.

For example....

[theskypilot]

mxr phase 90 phaser and cry baby wah

[black_doug]

Originally Posted by mrboson

I used to rely a lot on delay, and I also tried harder to cop the tone and effects of the original artists.

But my tastes have changed... nowadays my favorite is more of a big distortion tone with a little tape echo effect for the higher energy praise songs. More worshipful songs my favorite is a tremolo, sometimes with some overdrive, sometimes clean.

+1

[DoodlySquat]

The thing I probably use the most actually is the volume pedal, to some people it seems so useless but you can do so much with it and not take over the song like some effects drive you to do.

[DADGAD]

My favorite is OD. It makes single coils sing with a tube amp. I'm probably the oddball but I find delay & chorus bury an electric guitar in the overall mix.

[livinblood]

My OCD is my fave.
Delay is second.
Les Lius making its way up.

[leonard d rock]

as the only guitar player, to fatten up the sound i use chorus, add some flange as a special efx, delay to spread out the sound and sweeten. i also rediscovered the compressor to have a stronger even signal and makes the acoustic also stand out. an eq pedal is also on hand to tweak tones

[SoVeryTired]

I'm not sure about favourite but in order of how often they're used for a service:

Tuner :)
Overdrive
Delay (4 different settings)
Tremolo
Wah
Chorus (very rare)

Take everything except the overdrive and delay away and I'd get through most services okay, but it's nioce to have the options. I should also give mentions to the two pedals I haven't yet tried out live as they're new to me:

Octave - this will definitely get used for certain lead lines. I've already found myself using it with bass.
Artec EQ (faulty unit sent back, awaiting replacement or refund) - I couldn't live with the loud click on turning it on, or the buzz, but I'm totally sold on the idea of a mid boost EQ as a little extra for solos. I'll probably be using this a lot when I get a replacement.

[Colin]

My favorite effect is a building...

We have two church buildings. There's a more modern squarish building, built in the '70s, big open space, comfortable chairs, everyone finds it more flexible.
And an old church built 1200'something, rectangular shape , fixed hard wooden benches, worship leader, band and singers all at one end. Everyone thinks this is less flexible and less comfortable (probably is).
But the accoustics of the space are fantastic, so much better than the newer building.

[Teleworshipkid]

Originally Posted by Colin

And an old church built 1200'something, rectangular shape , fixed hard wooden benches, worship leader, band and singers all at one end. Everyone thinks this is less flexible and less comfortable (probably is).
But the accoustics of the space are fantastic, so much better than the newer building.

Really? Yeah, those old churches are fantastic in their acoustics, but I've found that buildings like that just turn amplified instruments into mush. Is it all wood/stone, or do you have any curtains in there or anything to help tame the sound?

[Colin]

Its all wood stone and glass when we practice, then there's about 150 mobile sound absorbing units that arrive during the services...

Seriously though, I agree it can easily get 'too much' when we are amplifed.
I think we sound best with fewer instruments, otherwies we all get in the same space and it can become mush.
That usually comes back to us as 'you are too loud' according to some in the congregation.
I think at those times we are just too many instruments and that the definition is gone rather than the actual sound level.

In the newer building the sound just dissapears somehow.

[Teleworshipkid]

Yeah, we have 2 buildings: one big sanctuary that looks and sounds amazing with the classic service organ/choir/orchestra, but turns the modern service instruments into the aforementioned mush. Then we have a brand new hall that's rectangular in shape and has foam walls, with a nicely tuned PA that suits modern service instruments nicely. However, attempting to do a classic service in there would give a very thin, weak sound.

[TwangBilly]

Compression, slight overdrive, and a volume pedal, however you can get it with your setup. That's my necessities. I just started using a Line 6 POD XT LIVE, it has all this and MUCH more! But I won't go into that in greater detail because I just posted about it at length in another thread haha.

[acoustic rob]

Every Sunday seems like 'random effects day' recently. Yesterday it was reverb...everything we played had a part that sounded good with some reverb added. Last week it was a little slapback delay, the week before was tremolo.

[jb12string]

Originally Posted by forgivenick

+1 on all this. Use your tuner, vol knob and picking dynamics with a good tube amp set on the edge of being overdriven with a little verb. Best effect out there. ;)

Yup.