each fx-slot is a muti-stage module. think of it as a pedal board.
if you go to see a band, the guitarist will have a pedal board to
select which effect he decides to use. By clicking them with his
foot he can choose clean (just amp) or he can send it through the
pedal board and add effects such as distortion, delay, flange, etc.
He can choose one or combine them by using his foot to click on each
effect either on or off note: this information is intended for
people who are new to guitarfx software.( advanced users of guitarfx
software or professional sound people please disregard this post)
guitarfx is like a pedal board.But's it's much more. In a major
recording studio when a band goes to cut thier tracks (songs, albulms)
the guitarist could use the pedal board he uses live to perform (in
concert) or he could go into a computer controled effects device that
uses software such as guitarfx to 1) control the aqmplitude of the
signal from the guitar. Signal db in. 2) add sound colour,
distortion,flange, chourus, pitch shift, parametric eq,delay,
etc,etc. with the rise of computer use in recent years, many
people
have in thier homes advanced state of the art audio computers
equipped with 1) advanced sound cards for audio in and out. 2)
software to run programs to procces the sound(signal db in, effects,
and create audio files such as wav, mp3,ogg,wma that may be saved on
their computer, and then sent to the internet, stored on cd or any
one of many possibilities. With guitarfx you have much more than a
simple pedal board, you have equipment equal to what would be found
in a modern state of the art recording studio.
_.Now, how do you get the sound from the guitar into
guitarfx.? Read posts on this site from the advanced users, interact
with them, pick thier brains, they do not mind.Just don't annoy them
by asking questions that you could find the answers to yourself. And
experiment with
the different fx-slots. try making your own chains, try and remember
the fx-slot sounds for each setting, save your effects chains and
name the files to something that reminds you of the sound it made.I
hope this was helpful and I will make another post on sound theory
soon. Please do
not visit my web site as it is under constuction. I am busy playing
guitar and recording, but it will be up soon, Jam on