8 ways to get more from your modulation and filter pedals

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For the latest installment in Total Guitar’s tone tips we turn our attention to the modulation and filter pedals, which means your flanger, phaser and chorus pedals – and the wah pedal you bought one Black Friday before realising by Cyber Monday you were no Jimi Hendrix.

The question is how can we get more out of them? Well, here are eight approaches to try that are easy to apply and might present you will all-new sounds to get inspired by.

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