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Feb 23, 2011 Ξ 205 comments

Win a Timber Tones Plectrum Retail Pack worth over £50

posted by Sam Davis

Guitar Jar is pleased offer guitarists another fantastic prize. Get your hands on a Timber Tones Retail Pack, with 18 varieties of wooden plectrums that offer you a range of subtle Guitar Tone differences, worth over £50!

This is a brilliant prize, and one I wish I could enter!

The Timber Tones retail pack features 18 plectrums, from a wide range of exotic woods that will provide guitarists to opportunities to experiment with guitar tone. Each individual Timber Tones pick retails at £2.99, so you can win over £50 worth of Timber Tones products.

Guitar Jar recently reviewed the plectrums available from Timber Tones and it was surprising how they really do make a difference in producing warm, organic tones.

How can I win this prize?

To win this prize, simply…

Tell us what your favourite effects pedal is and why

Enter by adding your comment at the bottom of this page.

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Please feel free to be adventurous, humorous & imaginative with your comments (but keep it clean please!).

This is a global competition and the closing date for the competition is March 13th 2011 where all the comments will be judged by friends of Guitar Jar and the winning entry will be notified by email.

Please note: your email address will be kept private and all comments will be moderated prior to being made visible as we want to keep the comments clean and appropriate for the site.

This competition has now closed – thanks to everyone who entered. The winner will be notified via email.

The winning entry was by “Jamie” – view the winning entry!

Dan Sampeck

March 06, 2011
10:59:24 pm

I like the cry-baby wah for its classic sound!

Max.V

March 07, 2011
11:42:38 pm

My Favorite effects Pedal is The Wah Wah Pedal ! and all that beacause it Dose « Wah Wah » 😀 !!

Micahel Boykin

March 08, 2011
2:06:19 am

Wow what a hard question. There are so many! My favorite though would have to be my Boss overdrive, which has the perfect amount of distortion mixed with a chorus and a fazer.

David

March 08, 2011
5:59:06 am

My favourite guitar pedal (as of now), is the EHX Freeze. It’s just awesome. It’s kinda like a keyboard sustain pedal, it sustains, notes or chords and you can play over the sustained sound. Really good for accompanying yourself.

Juan Parra

March 08, 2011
6:38:17 am

Love it, beautiful wooden picks!
My current favorite effect will have to be the pigtronix attack sustain. Not being a bif volume pedal fan, to have the ability to ‘pre-program’ swells, stutters and everything in between opens up a lot of possibilities. Plus, you can trigger it from an external audio source. Plus, the compressor sounds beautiful on its own!

ian

March 08, 2011
7:37:14 am

Hmmm.
My RP250
It was cheap and does a horrible job of emulating wonderful pedals.
with it I can unleash an array of disturbing tones that not even an admiring younger brother could appreciate.
gotta love digital modeling with its freight train like impact on impressionable guitarists looking to be fooled into think that part time jobs at grocery stores and mild dedication gets you a tone only matched by the greats.
with this baby I can easily get many great sounds ranging from a Sober Jimi Hendrix, to a kind of Synyster Gates dabbling in heroin and acid and everything in between.
any aspiring guitar player really looking to launch their rockstardom forward into…dare I say… legitimate basemeant recording should stop buy and pick one up.
I personally swear by it and at a measly 150 bucks what could possibly go wrong?
I pair this with my peavey windsor amp and it sounds like heaven….well sort of.
it makes noise and that’s enough to make me feel good.

…

in all reality.
my favorite pedal is probably my crybaby wah.
its like adding another dimension to your sound in which the ability to express yourself is atleast doubled.
take any amazing solo with wah incorporated and remove that wah. its just bland in comparison.

Matt Kalebic

March 08, 2011
12:28:34 pm

My favorite effects pedal is by far EHX Holy Grail Reverb. Why, you ask?

I’ve been playing guitar for the past two years at a fairly slow pace, but as of late I’ve found new inspiration with my teacher: jazz. It started off as a foray into a new genre, a quick peek, but I was quickly engulfed in a world of music like I’ve really never heard before. It was a change from the slow blues I’ve been playing, as if someone had taken what I played and seen it in a new light.

But as for the pedal, well, that’s what I can proudly say gave me my first “jazz” tone. It allowed me (if one would ignore my lack of skill :D) to sound like I too was one of those jazz greats who could conjure up smooth, intricate rhythms. I could pick up my lightly dented Epiphone archtop and pretend it was a vintage Gibson as I played beginner’s bebop rhythms and foolish attempts at Bird covers.

Now, while my story isn’t as humorous as others, to me it’s demonstrated how all it takes is a nudge in the right direction and a little confidence to get the desired…effect :).

Jay P

March 08, 2011
3:09:43 pm

hmmmmm…

What can I say, for the past few years I have loved and used the Line 6 FBV shortboard as a controller for my POD XT pro. As I like to perform and play (as it is a performance after all…) its great to transfer from one sound to a completly different sound with just one ‘tap’ 🙂

It can also withstand multiple attacks from your drunken lead vocalist…

Steve Capell

March 08, 2011
6:24:47 pm

Elctro- Harmonix Freeze

Paul Davis

March 09, 2011
1:55:38 am

My favorite effect would have to be the “crybaby wah” pedal. Simply because I’m always experimenting with it to create new sounds and it never get’s boring.

Daenion

March 09, 2011
6:51:24 am

It’s not really an effect pedal but the one i play the most is a Tech21 Sansamp classic. Amazing tones in a tiny box that can plug in in anything you want and then sounds like incredible even chained before/after any crap effect pedals that sounds suddenly good.

David Pierson

March 09, 2011
11:44:09 am

my favorite effects pedal is either a cry baby or a boss phaser pedal. I am really re designing music. right now the music that is popular is metal and pop. in the future metalheads are going to get tired of listening to the same thing. sorry about making things upreal fast but thats all i hear, the a pinch harmonic. so i play some very clean upbeat melodic stew of like technoey phaserfull and meaningful distorted proggressions. yesterday i made this riff and me and 5 other people including two metal heads agreed with me when i said it’s the best thing i’ll ever do until i have a kid. but i would probably sell these picks for a wah but ill post some songs up here by the end of march.

Elijah Melanson

March 09, 2011
11:57:03 am

My Hermidia Audio Zendrive has to be my favorite “secret weapon” pedal. It’s an incredibly clean sounding overdrive suitable for jazz fusion like no other. Comparing it tonally, it sounds quite similar to virtuoso guitarists Robben Ford and Guthrie Govan. It has a great amount of compression inherent in the sound, giving endless sustain when cranked up. Backing off on the volume to decrease the gain is a great trick due to the compressed sound, because it really opens up a large dynamic range.

Fab

March 09, 2011
1:29:43 pm

Definitly my Boss RC-50, so much fun with this loop pedal ! I have been using and abusing it for 2 years now and i’m still not bored of it.

Daniel

March 10, 2011
7:05:10 pm

Mine favourite effects pedal is Heavy Metal (Hm-2) because I can totally be myself and rock with it until I can no longer. Also the sound of it is very nice.

Also the Jimi hendrix experience pedal is also one of mine favourite pedal’s The wha wha effect is so nice, Who would not want to play corpse Jimi Hendrix?
Its nice to improvise my idol with de jimi hendrix pedal, A very nice sound have the pedal also!

Greats
Daniel.

Vahon

March 10, 2011
11:55:23 pm

I prefer my Sans Amp DI Bass Driver. I don’t use it to go to a PA system or to record, but really to get some good dirt on the bass. The distortion is quite pronounced when playing on the lower strings, and you can monkey with the sound quite a bit – I’m still figuring things out and finding new ‘sounds’ with it as I play.

I especially enjoy using it to give my guitarist a little ‘nudge’ when he is over-doing with his solos. It doesn’t matter how nice your solos is if no one can hear you!!!

Greg Riddle

March 11, 2011
7:07:42 am

I’m a bass player, but, my favorite pedal is a Rocktron Banshee talk box. I added it to my bass rig about 3 years ago, and I love it for soloing and for adding a little somethin-somethin to different songs. I also have a double-neck Steinberger Spirit 4 string bass/6 string guitar, and I use it with the guitar for a few different covers we do.

Dave Kennedy

March 11, 2011
6:20:48 pm

My favourite effects pedal is a graphics equalizer (minimum 7-band)… With an EQ pedal you can get that just right tone straight out of your guitar…

Michael Jones

March 11, 2011
10:11:09 pm

I choose my Korg A-5 Multi Effect pedal. I have tried several new and newer pedals but I always go back to the old A5. It continues to give me the best sound. Great delay, great compression, easy to program.

J-Marc

March 12, 2011
6:15:30 am

Hi there! My favorite effect pedal is the eventide modfactor. This box is so powerfull. I used to have several modulation stompboxes on my pedalboard… Now, I have this one of a kind mega tool which is so efficient.