

Then distortion pedals designed to emulate that experiment started to show up a few years later after fuzz pedals and overdrive a milder version of Distortion effect. This changed the history of the rock and metal music completely. This experiment (as becoming a common myth) at first occurred as a happy accident, and produced a high gain – insanely distorted sound of his guitar. This changed the instrument sound to long sustained – “dirty” – compressed sound, and at the same time distorted tone became a new turning point and opened new horizons for the history of rock music and beyond.ĭuring the late 70’s and 80 rock and metal guitarists like Eddie Van Halen used some tricks to push their amplifiers by lowering the voltage and turning up the volume, using device called Variac a variable transformer that lower or rise the voltage which feeds into the amplifier.

Efektor GQ3607 Graphic Equalizer (Free)Īfter years of using tube amps, guitar players discovered the musical side of distortion produced by pushing their tube amps at limits, where the pre-amp and power amp tubes started to produce distorted signal.
