Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

The real fact about effects pedals is that they are probably one of the most distracting things to new guitar players. To properly learn to play the guitar, there is little need for anything other than a good guitar, a good teacher and a good amplifier. I learned this the hard way when getting my daughter started on guitar. What effects do you use for what? I started her out with a Line 6 Pod 3 live with many great presets. None of them were used. The tuner was confusing and the effects were really never used.

lesson learned.