Confused by Guitar Effects: Clean/Boost, Compressor, Distortion, Overdrive, Fuzz

There are so abounding guitar furnishings pedals on the bazaar and it is harder to apperceive what the aberration is amid them. Categorizing furnishings pedals has been difficult. There has been little accord on how to do this. There are six accepted classifications: Dynamics, time based, tone, filter, pitch/frequency, and feedback/sustain. This commodity will focus on the Dynamics Classification and the Accent Classification.
Dynamics Classification: Clean Boost/Volume Pedal, Compressor Pedal, microphone amplifier.

Clean Boost/Volume Pedal; Amplifies the aggregate of an apparatus by accretion some aspect of its electrical arresting output. These types of furnishings are usually acclimated for "boosting" aggregate during solos and preventing arresting accident in continued "effects chains"
Examples: Fender Aggregate pedal, Dunlop MXR Amp effect, Visual Complete True Accent Clean Boost

Compressor Pedals; balance aggregate and smooths a agenda by black its access and amplifying its sustain. Compression is accomplished by capricious the backbone of a arresting to ensure aggregate stays aural a specific activating range.
Examples: Dunlop's MXR custom Comp pedal, Erockson Compressor/Sustain pedal, Boss CS-3, Aguilar TLC Compressor, BBE Benchpress pedal.
Microphone Preamplifier or "preamp"; Increases a microphones low voltage achievement to levels that can be best up and acclimated by accessories such as bond consoles and headphones.

Tone Classification: Distortion, Overdrive, Fuzz, Lo-Fi
Distortion and OverDrive; alter the accent by abacus "overtones" creating altered sounds such as "warm" "dirty" "gritty" types. Baloney furnishings aftermath the aforementioned bulk of baloney at any volume. Overdrive units aftermath "clean" sounds at a lower aggregate and adulterated sounds at louder volumes.
Examples: BBE GreenScreamer, Dunlop MXR Baloney III, MXR custom GT overdrive, Dunlop Zakk Wylde Overdrive Pedal, BOSS Bass Overdrive, Pigtronix Aria Baloney pedal, Pigtronix Disnortion, Visual Complete Jekyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive, and Route 66 American Overdrive.

Fuzz Pedal or " Fuzzbox"; A blazon of overdrive pedal that clips a sound-wave until it is about a aboveboard beachcomber consistent in a heavily adulterated or "fuzzy" sound. The Rolling Stones abundantly affected the use of down effects.
Examples: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, Visual Complete Angry Down Octave, Boss Fuzz, Dunlop MXR Blue Box Octave Fuzz.

Boost, Compression, Baloney and Down are the a lot of accepted chic of effects. Usually, if a guitarist alone owns one pedal, it is one of these. Abounding musicians accept several of these types and use two or three at a time to get the abounding altered sounds that accomplish music so wonderful!