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Effect Types

There are a few different categories of effect types used by guitar pedals, guitars and amplifiers. Gain Stages like overdrive, distortion, compression, volume and boost. Frequency like equalizer, wah, pitch and harmony. Modulation like vibrato, tremolo, chorus, flanger, and phasers. Time Effects like delay, reverb and Miscellaneous Effects like loopers, emulators, multi-effects and everything else.