Choosing Between Individual Pedals or a Multi-Effects Unit? Here Are a Few Things to Consider

Imagine you are a young guitar player sitting in your bedroom at home and playing your favorite songs. As you play more, you begin to hear how the music you play is crafted, and you seek to find out how certain sounds are created. Sometimes it's a percussive element that involves attacking the strings in a unique way with either a pick or your fingertips (or fingernails, but that's another discussion).

Other times, though, you find there are sounds that add to the music in such a way that the addition is clearly manmade, but their impact is astounding. Unable to rest, you hop online & see your favorite guitarist jamming away, but there is obviously something going on at their feet. Suddenly, realize that they are stepping on various buttons that help in the creation of the sounds you found so awe-inspiring. You now know that whatever it is he/she is stepping on, you need to own the same equipment.

Such is one possible foray into the world of effects for guitarists. Not satisfied with the basic function of connecting their instrument to an amplifier, guitarists have sought to manipulate their guitar signal to create other-worldly noise. There was a time about midway through the 20th century that these types of effects were rudimentary & time-consuming to create in the studio. Savvy manufacturers quickly understood that there would be a way to monetize the effects industry if they could provide these effects to musicians in a more direct way and quite literally put them at their feet.

Herein lies the genius of the multi-effect (ME) unit. This "all-in-one" solution to having all of your effects in one box meant making one expense as opposed to buying individual pedals for certain sounds. Say an ME unit provides twelve effects for $100.00. If you bought each effect in a stand-alone pedal for $50.00/pedal, you'd be looking at $600.00.

However, it needs to be understood that quality of the product is paramount to the success of the effects market for guitarists. In fact, recent high-dollar effect offerings under the 'boutique' moniker have shown that guitarists will hand over four figures for an individual effect pedal if they feel that this effect is of the highest quality & doesn't degrade their tone.

What also separates users of individual pedals & multi-effect units is the environment in which they'll be used. For example, a church band may opt to use ME units because they can more easily connect them directly to the house PA system & do away with the stage volume issue associated with an amplifier. This option also allows for effects "patches" to be saved for certain songs. While convenient, an individual pedal user may feel a bit too constrained & unable to activate sounds as the moment takes them.

All in all, every guitarist's experience will be an individual one. Whether you choose individual effects pedals or go the way of the multi-effect unit, you are taking an important step to establishing your signature sound, and you need to rely on what inspires you the most to keep making music.



 By Morris Raymond


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Multi Cultural Beliefs

In the spiritual or mystical objectives of our multi cultural belief systems throughout history we see that everything in the Universe and everything in the forces of nature on Earth has been observed with an upmost sense of a Divine presence.

These forces are distinguished by their different characteristics for example in Greek mythology Zeus was worshiped as a god and associated with thunder and lightning. In Santeria the god of lightning and fire is known as one of the Orishas, Chango. The term Orisha represents a spirit that is the manifestation of the Supreme Divinity.

In our 21st century, a new understanding of these ancient teachings has begun to emerge. In terms of the mysterious interconnections of energy dynamics of the physical and non physical dimensions. We are now opening to a full range of exploration as more evidence from the Large Hadron Collider prove that portals have opened. We are becoming aware that we are spiritual beings from a spiritual reality in a physical reality on earth.

Of the many different religions of the world, all are said to exist in the spiritual world and to the spiritual world we would return. Many of the Orishas have found their way into modern times by way of religious practices such as in Santeria, Lukumi, Regia de Ocha which many historians believe Santeria began in the years of 1780 - 1850 during the slave trades transported to Cuba. Incorporating Catholic Saints into their religion, Santeria is a major religion of Cuba. Originating from the Yoruba religion found primarily in southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin, Togo, and is known as Yoruba land.

There are 401 Orishas in the Yoruba tradition and there are those that suggest there are over a thousand. Based on the polarities such as positive and negative, male, female in the East it is called "Chi" and in the Western world known as "Energy" among New Age thinkers. Practitioners in Santeria strive to find the perfect vibration frequency for each and every life form. It is believed that every individual has a patron Orisha. A beautiful religion geared toward empowerment, beauty, love, and happiness.

To some extent these ancient religions represent stability in this era of massive corporate corruption of governments, out of control polluted environments and despicable poverty and crime. More and more of us are caught up between frustration and desperation as terrorists and anti-government activists carry out their demented activities.

In our connected spiritual and physical dimensions of existence, we have the capabilities to communicate our inner divine guidance, translated through telepathic thought. We are capable of doing away repeated behavioral prototypes by breaking free to find our own individual drive to manifest our future regardless of our present circumstances and situations. In the Quantum mechanics or the study of the micro-world, it teaches us of our connectedness to one and other and everything. We can and will change our present reality to hold a new world image that we can each live successfully in our own individual beliefs and perceptions.



 By Barbara Garcia


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