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Post by langford on Feb 20, 2020 9:25:49 GMT -5
I'm pretty much a guitar-cable-amp guy, but lately I've been playing around with the pedals that have accumulated in my backroom over the years. It's good fun. I'm ordering them based on the idea: pitch-tone-modulation-time. So my little line-up looks like this: Tuner... Distortion... Chorus... Vibrato... Reverb/Delay. I have a wah-wah pedal, too, but I don't always put that in the chain.
How do you order your pedals?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Feb 20, 2020 9:36:43 GMT -5
I rarely use individual pedals unless I'm recording. Even though there are general guidelines about effect order to make them sound 'natural', e.g., reverb always goes last in the chain, etc., I try them in different orders to see what sounds best.
Chorusing a distortion sounds quite different than distorting a chorus. And there are lots of ways to experiment and get usable sounds. For example, connecting some wahs backward and then applying a boost to the input and distortion and delay on the output makes great UFO sounds.
Lots of cool sounds are easy to get without use of a plug-in effect. For instance, straighten a paper clip, weave it across the strings and slide it up by the bridge, and you get a pretty cool dreamy/bell/space effect. Tape a piece of foil across the strings near the bridge and it sounds like a sitar.
There are no rules.
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Post by ProzaKc on Feb 20, 2020 18:59:19 GMT -5
This guy might know
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Post by LM on Feb 20, 2020 20:04:13 GMT -5
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Post by rickyguitar on Feb 21, 2020 22:12:04 GMT -5
Compressor should not go last. It can get really noisy.
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Post by Opie on Feb 22, 2020 9:51:14 GMT -5
Josh at JHS pedals has a youtube channel that is the best at a/b comps and just general everything pedally imaginable, plus he's funny as all git out. Big plus, he's not tring to sell you his pedals, he loves other peoples stuff as well as his own stuff. I've learned more in three weeks than I have in decades.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 22, 2020 10:16:08 GMT -5
Josh at JHS pedals has a youtube channel that is the best at a/b comps and just general everything pedally imaginable, plus he's funny as all git out. Big plus, he's not tring to sell you his pedals, he loves other peoples stuff as well as his own stuff. I've learned more in three weeks than I have in decades. I only discovered his channel a couple months ago. Yes, it is all that. 😎 |
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Post by larryguitar54 on Feb 25, 2020 21:35:06 GMT -5
I have 3 boards. Basically a small, medium and large board. Mostly I go with the small board with just 4 pedals.
Guitar-tuner-compressor-drive-delay-amp.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2020 12:15:36 GMT -5
There's the school of thought that dynamics, distortion, etc., come first and then time based, modulation effects, etc.
BUT, there are no rules when it comes to using effects. Dick Dale used a reverb between his guitar and the amp, hitting the preamp pretty hard too. Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes also stacks multiple reverbs in his chain first, before everything else.
One of the most iconic sounds of the Madchester scene in the late 80s was The Stone Roses main riff to I Wanna Be Adored, which allegedly is an Ibanez chorus going INTO a Fuzz Face, and then to an Alesis Midiverb II.
And then there's Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine... I don't know where to start.
Things these people did might look "wrong" by convention to some, but were very very right.
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Post by langford on Feb 26, 2020 21:29:51 GMT -5
@ Opie . Yeah, Josh at JHS is great. His channel is what got my dusting my little collection of devices. Love his tag line: Loud is More Good. |
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