electric guitars are a whole rabbit hole of cottage capitalism (I say this as someone who has played electric for 15 odd years now and has to fight the urge to get new pedals)
that being said, the best thing about electric guitars is that you don't have to worry about much else besides "basic pickup configurations" for the beginning
find some artists you like, buy a cheap version of their guitar (squier and epiphone make solid intro models), and focus on your technique
then when you feel like you want to stretch more, you can just mod the cheap model you have unt it sounds the way you want
basically start simple, don't fret about all of the endgame/top tier options when you're just starting out
same, really hard to resist the urge to save up and get a pedal that does a delay in a slightly different way than the other delays and reverbs my current gear is capable of.
ooh but this one has variable waveform and a ring mod, and built in eq dip switches
honestly that's not a terrible way to do things if you can't easily test it out before you buy it
it's so hard to know for certain how a pedal with play with other ones, not to mention how all the variation that comes with placement in your signal chain
the knobs youtube channel has been really good at demonstrating different things you can do with a delay, and it gives me an interesting problem to solve trying to get the sound of one expensive pedal using 2 or 3 cheap ones.
100% agree with this, the best part about guitar pedals is that they're designed to be used modularly, so you can swap each one out and try different things rather than having to settle for one specific sound.
Also Boss pedals are pretty good if you can get them used/cheap, since they buffer your signal
electric guitars are a whole rabbit hole of cottage capitalism (I say this as someone who has played electric for 15 odd years now and has to fight the urge to get new pedals)
that being said, the best thing about electric guitars is that you don't have to worry about much else besides "basic pickup configurations" for the beginning
find some artists you like, buy a cheap version of their guitar (squier and epiphone make solid intro models), and focus on your technique
then when you feel like you want to stretch more, you can just mod the cheap model you have unt it sounds the way you want
basically start simple, don't fret about all of the endgame/top tier options when you're just starting out
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same, really hard to resist the urge to save up and get a pedal that does a delay in a slightly different way than the other delays and reverbs my current gear is capable of.
ooh but this one has variable waveform and a ring mod, and built in eq dip switches
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honestly that's not a terrible way to do things if you can't easily test it out before you buy it
it's so hard to know for certain how a pedal with play with other ones, not to mention how all the variation that comes with placement in your signal chain
the knobs youtube channel has been really good at demonstrating different things you can do with a delay, and it gives me an interesting problem to solve trying to get the sound of one expensive pedal using 2 or 3 cheap ones.
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100% agree with this, the best part about guitar pedals is that they're designed to be used modularly, so you can swap each one out and try different things rather than having to settle for one specific sound.
Also Boss pedals are pretty good if you can get them used/cheap, since they buffer your signal
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