Effect Pedal

Hello Effect Pedal listener, this is your host Wright Seneres. Thanks so much for your kind words and support for this podcast. If you’re an Apple Podcasts user and enjoy the show, please leave a 5-star rating, or even a review. Ratings and reviews go a long way in helping new people find and enjoy Effect Pedal too. You hear this from a lot of podcasts, but it’s really true. And if you’re not an Apple Podcasts user, you’re still just as awesome. You can tell your friends about Effect Pedal...

Hello Effect Pedal listener, this is Wright. Thanks so much for the kind words and support for this podcast. If you’re an Apple Podcasts user and enjoy the show, please leave a 5-star rating, or even a review. Ratings and reviews go a long way in helping new people find and enjoy Effect Pedal too. You hear this from a lot of podcasts, but it’s really true. And if you’re not an Apple Podcasts user, you’re just as awesome. You can still tell a friend about Effect Pedal with your podcast app’s...

Hello Effect Pedal listener, this is Wright. Thank you to all you awesome listeners and subscribers. If you enjoy the show, please leave a 5-star rating, or even a review, in your favorite podcast app. Ratings and reviews go a long way in helping new people find and enjoy Effect Pedal too. I’m sure you hear that from all the podcasts, but it’s really true. So thanks again for your support. And now, on with the show. (Harp sound) Many people have a band that they got into “before everyone...

Hi, this is Wright. I am truly grateful for all the love that you awesome listeners have shown the podcast so far. If you enjoy the show, please consider leaving a 5-star rating, or even a review, in your favorite podcast app. Ratings and reviews go a long way in helping new people find and enjoy the podcast too. Now on with the show. On a beautiful spring Friday night sometime during my junior year of high school, some friends and I were at a school event. We were watching some of our...

There was something different about this song. It started sort of quiet, then got really loud. But then it dropped back down to quiet, then got really loud again. Until this point, my limited experience with pop music as a youngster was with songs that basically kept to the same volume range, whether they were on the rock stations on the radio, or with punk rock cassette tapes in my Walkman. Then came Nirvana and “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. It starts out with a relatively clean and normal...

My name is Wright Seneres and this is Effect Pedal, a podcast that is part memoir and completely a celebration of guitar effect pedals. Trusty stompboxes that adorn the floor, in front of millions of guitar players, whether in a bedroom full of big dreams, or on a stage in front of big crowds, and everywhere in between. In the universe, there are countless numbers of these pedals, creating an infinite number of sounds. I’m going to focus on a number of historically important ones for this...