Guitar accessories include a wide range of essential items that enhance your playing experience and help maintain your instrument. This category covers picks, straps, strings, tuners, capos, cables, cleaning kits, cases, and more. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned player, having the right accessories ensures your guitar stays in top condition and makes playing more comfortable and enjoyable. Accessories also offer ways to personalise your setup and improve your performance.
The top of a guitar refers to the front face of the body, usually the wood panel that has the sound hole on an acoustic or the pickups mounted on an electric. It’s one of the most important parts for tone, especially on acoustics, where the top’s wood type, thickness, and construction greatly affect resonance, volume, and warmth.
Common woods for guitar tops include spruce, cedar, and maple. On electrics, the top can also be a separate piece with special finishes or inlays, adding to the instrument’s aesthetics as well as its sound character.
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Ernie Ball is a well-known name in the music industry, primarily recognized for their high-quality guitar strings. However, they’ve also ventured into producing guitar effects pedals that have gained popularity among guitarists. The Ernie Ball pedals are part of their “Expression Series,” offering innovative effects with expressive control options.
Here are some notable Ernie Ball guitar pedals:
Ernie Ball VP Jr. Volume Pedal: Although not strictly an “effects” pedal, this is a popular volume pedal used by many guitarists. It allows for precise volume swells and control over the guitar’s output.
Ernie Ball Ambient Delay: This pedal provides atmospheric delay effects with the added feature of an expression pedal to control parameters like delay time or feedback.
Ernie Ball Expression Overdrive: An overdrive pedal with an expression control that allows for real-time manipulation of the drive level or tone, giving guitarists added sonic flexibility.
Ernie Ball Expression Tremolo: This pedal offers a wide range of tremolo effects and enables real-time control over speed, depth, or shape via the expression pedal.
Ernie Ball Expression Ambient Delay: Similar to the Ambient Delay but with an extended range of ambient and atmospheric delay effects, plus expression pedal control over various parameters.
Ernie Ball’s Expression Series pedals are recognized for their versatility and the unique capability to control various effect parameters in real-time through the built-in expression pedal. These pedals offer guitarists an opportunity to dynamically shape their tone during performances.
While Ernie Ball’s pedal range might not be as extensive as some other companies, their focus on innovative expression control integrated into the effects pedals has gained attention and appreciation among many guitarists looking for added creativity in their sound. As always, personal preference and playing style play a significant role in choosing the right pedal, so it’s recommended to try out different pedals or listen to demos to find the one that suits your musical needs.
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Ernie Ball Slinkys are played by legends around the world including Slash, Jimmy Page, Metallica, Eric Clapton, and more. Skinny Top Beefy Bottom Slinkys combine the lighter playability of the Regular Slinky set with beefed-up wound strings for a thicker low end. Element Shield packaging ensures your strings stay as fresh as they were the day they …
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Including 6 free plectrums Skinny Top Heavy Bottom 10-52 String Set Nickel plated steel wire wrapped around a hex shaped steel core wire Specially tempered tin plated high carbon steel Gauges .010 .013 .017 .030 .042 .052
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Titanium reinforced on the ball-end of the string. All wound strings are treated with a micro-thin layer of enamel that prevents decay and corrosion up to five times more than uncoated sets. In addition to treating the wound strings, each plain string features a rust-resistant plating along with a patented reinforcement winding of titanium wire. Ti…
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Superior magnetic attraction providing the most expressive strings ever created. Dynamic frequency response with increased output and added strength. Super Cobalt alloy wrapped around a Maraging steel hex core wire, producing a richer and fuller tone with powerful low end response. Plain strings (E, B, G) are made from specially-tempered steel for …
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Cobalt produces a stronger magnetic relationship between pickups and strings, resulting in increased output. Cobalt electric guitar strings provide an extended dynamic range, incredible harmonic response, strong low end, and crisp, clear highs. Wound strings consist of Ernie Ball’s Cobalt alloy wrapped around a tin-plated high-carbon steel core wir…
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