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Evolution of preferences (sounds) or Why I sold my Metal Zone and am now obsessed with reverbs
Not sure why I want to share this, but here we go. I'm mid 40. When I was 14-15-16 and until my late 30, I was a huge fan of heavy metal. I start playing electric guitar at around 14-15 and bought with my guitar and amp, 1 Boss Metal Zone, indeed (why not more, I don't know). I know, I know, many people today are making fun of the Boss Metal Zone, but at that time, it was the cream of the crop of distorsion (and a good way to mask my sloppy guitar playing).
Since 5 years, maybe a little more, I really don't care anymore about effects like Fuzz, Overdrive, Distorsion, etc. I really just like clean sounds. And I am now obsessed with Reverb, Delays (and weirds delays) and Compression (and probably Chorus).
Maybe it's my age, I don't know. I bought a Zoom MFX with many really great reverbs, compressions and delays, but a lot of overdrive and saturation sounds (not sure why so many MFX have so many type of distorsions).
It's just a random number based on my experience, but it seems that 98% of electric guitar player play with overdrive as if electric guitar was not able to play only on clean sounds. Maybe it's just a phase, I don't know. Why overdrive is so popular? When you think about it, it's counter intuitive.
TL:DR; tastes change with age.
Feel free to share your similar experiences.
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Nice diving to the history! My story is almost identical, unbelievable
I'm 50+ now, bought my first guitar and amp at 17 ( both were total craps) and after year the first effect coming .. yes Zoom MT-2. Then Zoom 3030, Digitech RP-1, Zoom G1, Zoom G3, Zoom MS-50 and then I found beauty of VST. So I spent several years on PC and year ago I moved to iPad. I'm so happy now and only regret I didn't make this decision earlier. Even in case of sound and effects my journey was very similar, I started with metal genre and slightly moving to less aggressive styles during years. And I completely understand your dly/rev obsession, @Montreal_Music 
Great!
Any new pitch delay on iOS last 2 years?
Taste and direction duck and dive, twist and turn… on the guitar question though, from a UK alternative music perspective, there was a big influx of heavier guitars in the late 80s to early 90s. The most significant was probably grunge, but also the thrash-guitar-into-industrial thing which in retrospect grew over most of the 80s (Godflesh, Black Flag, etc). Cleaner guitar sounds which were big before Siouxie/Smiths/… took a dive.
No idea. I'm focused to tape and multitap delays.
Similar here, though I did always like to jump between cleanish/breakup from my valve PA into thrash/grunge with my hot pink thrashmaster, sadly that died early noughties - I should look at how that sound is made as it was insanely thick - but now mainly stick to the clean/breakup with the odd moment of high distortion for sustaining sounds with ebow or just plectrum… for our semi weekly jams I just use a big old acoustic amp with either pedals or if a can be arsed my iPad and an interface for FX. Also lets me rest the guitar and do a bit of geocello/flute wherever when it all gets a bit too guitar (there’s four of us and we all play a bit of axe so it sometimes goes that way😅😂)
Okay sonny
If I go back to ancient history I recall my high school rock band in the 60s. The only device we could get at first was a very simple metal rectangle that had only an on and off switch. I think it was called the Vox Distortion Booster. You changed the tone by your guitar tone and volume knobs. We also bought a looping tape delay but mostly used it on vocals for some reason.
We were always sheepish about what we considered our low-end equipment. I saw a video of Jack White on the porch of his house playing and I immediately recognized the sound of the Silvertone amp we were so ashamed of using; the cheesy spring reverb, etc. He was showing it off like a great artifact in his collection.
Later in the 80s I bought one of those Radioshack reverbs (really a kind of delay) that seems so underwhelming at the time. Now it's actually an app that people want to emulate. Digital made everything so perfectly that we realize we like the imperfections.