Quote Originally Posted by Coak View Post
Petals are for fags, unless you're gonna do gigs or camwhore your "skills" on youtube, just fucking change it yourself on the amp, not that fucking hard man, I do it myself. One fucking button, I go from clean to fucking crunch or metal.
If you're just hitting a button on the amp your just using a built in pedal.
There are two approaches to distortion and tone. One uses the pickups and a pedal or the amp. Neither is better than the other. On top of that a OD pedal lets you kick it up for a lead and you are able to modulate amp sounds with distortion and OD pedals that are impossible for you otherwise. Like I have a Peavey amp and I use a pedal some times to get it to sound like a Marshal stack.
Next pedals cover a range of things. From phasers, flangers, uni-v roatary, chorus, ect. They allow for sounds and effect a guitar can't get on its own. Not using an eq pedal and a compressor is just stupid.