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Now guitarists are more complex creatures than golfers and performance means different things to different guitarists. But, yes, it probably wouldn't impact greatly on anybody's playing if there was never a new pedal, amp, guitar, lead, odd shaped plectrum, strap,etc, on the market ever again. Of course there are game changers, things that genuinely bring something new to the table but these are few and far between. When was the last new effect type? Or at least the last new effect type that got used. When did the list of fuzz,chorus, flange,delay,etc, last get added to?
But I know what you mean. It's the same in the amp world, where there are loads of boutique people remaking deluxes and stuff. Thing is, small component differences are enough to change the sound a bit, and sometimes that's all we want.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Players seemed far more willing to use pedals to make guitars sound genuinely different in the 70s and early 80s (David Gilmour, Fripp, Andy Summers, Adrian Belew, 'The' Edge, et al) than they do now.
Although they dont effect what you hear in recorded music much. Which is also the problem with loopers - they don't offer anything new in the studio/ to the listener. It might be a more convenient package but that's about it. It seems rare to hear them integrated well into anyone's live work ( I might just be listening to the wrong people I suppose) you just get people doing the obvious looper song. I think they have been more of a game changer for pedal makers than the listening audience.
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