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- Hey everyone, Nick Reinhardt here.
And I'd like to introduce you
to the Fender Hammertone pedals.
In this video,
we'll take a look at the modulation pedals in the series,
which is the chorus and flanger.
Super cool pedals.
They're compact with player-friendly features
and they sound great.
They all have top-mounted jacks,
which make it a little easier
to assemble a solid pedal board.
And they're all true bypass and built to last.
So let's go through each pedal one at a time,
check out the features,
and hear what they sound like.
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First up, chorus.
Chorus essentially takes your original signal and layers it,
and plays it back at a slightly different time,
that thickens the tone.
It's like a chorus of singers,
a bunch of different voices singing the same thing,
but on guitar.
And this pedal does that very nicely.
- [Nick] You can go for a really nice lush tone,
set it faster for a simulated rotary speaker kind of thing,
or crank the depth for the underwater effect.
All right, let's check out the controls.
- [Nick] So the rate controls the speed of the modulation,
the depth controls the modulation intensity,
the level for overall amount of chorus.
And then we got some switches here.
The type switch allows you to switch
between three classic chorus effects.
You can basically keep adding more choral voices,
two, three or four.
And the tone switch gives you a brighter
and a warmer tone option.
All right, let's see how it sounds.
First, Here's our bypass tone.
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And now we'll add some chorus.
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Next up, flanger.
Flanger is a classic effect that's been around forever.
- [Nick] The effect itself was originally achieved
by physically pushing the tape flange
on a reel-to-reel recording device.
You've heard it on tons of recordings over the years.
This pedal will give you all of the classic flanger effects,
from subtle-swirling modulation to rushing-jet-stream waves.
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We also have a couple switches here.
- [Nick] Res gives you three levels of resonance,
allowing you to adjust the intensity of the effect
from subtle to extreme.
And the type switch selects
between two different flanger sounds,
one more subtle and the other more intense.
All right, let's see how it sounds.
First, here is our bypass tone.
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Now we'll add some flanger.
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All right, so there you have it.
Two really cool modulation pedals
from the Fender Hammertone series.
There are a bunch of other pedals
like delay reverb, metal, and distortion.
So go check out those at fender.com,
and stay tuned here for more pedal demos.
And I know there's probably a bunch of people
out there wondering what these modulation effects sound like
with some distortion.
So I added the Hammertone distortion
in front of the chorus and flanger.
All right. See you next time.
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