“Playing to the pedal”
If you can’t really play a song properly unless your pedals are set up correctly, that is a surefire sign you’re “playing to the pedal.”
After a subtle compression, it’s my trusty boss ce-5 chorus with the treble cut to make it sound more “bubblegummy,” then the grand canyon produces smooth pitch shifted delays. Seriously, this is a pretty nice algorithm (superior to the grainy pitch shifting of the DL4).
I think guitarists like Ed O’Brien and Alan Duggan showcase easily what playing to the pedal means. Often they set their pedals to do a lot of work for them- but this isn’t mindless knob tweaking, nor is it an outsourcing of talent, it’s more like setting up the dominoes in a shape of your own design and knocking over the first one. Sound tweakers know better than anyone that if something is slightly off, it can throw off your whole performance/recording.
When you have these specialized sounds, you detract certain possibilities (you can’t play certain scales/rhythms as easily, or in familiar ways) but you add new possibilities, things you could not play otherwise.
Playing to the pedal might even mean that you have no idea what you’re going to play, you just know a sound you’re after, and you’ll feel out the possibilities on the frets once you get there.
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