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  • #16
    Re: How would you order the pedals of my board?

    I look at this through the Classic lens and the experimental lens. In fact, I had an experimental/looping board separate from my standard board. For experimental stuff throw all the rules out doing what gets the sounds in your head. Reverb into fuzz, etc.

    The rest of this post will concern a more “classic” approach.

    The first step is to start with your primary drive. Get it dialed into your sound with your guitar and amp. Then add your second drive. Try stacking in either direction to see which works best for your setup. Then keep adding pedals, one at a time in order of importance to you, trying it in every position. It’ll take a while, but you’ll have a board that you know completely and is the right order for you.

    Some things to think about:
    For tremolo order, on the classic Fender amps, it goes Reverb -> Tremolo, so that’s as good a starting point as any.
    For “classic” sounds I’d always want delay before tremolo, delay to thicken, then tremolo to modulate so you don’t have any odd tempo clashing from tremolo into delay. I think I like Spring Reverb into Tremolo like a classic amp, but plate/room Reverb last to emulate a recording.

    For delay order, I like Analog as a shorter slap or fattening tone and a tape for longer sounds. I like short into long, try it all ways.

    Tuner can go anywhere, do you need it to mute noisy gain pedals? (Should it go first or after drive)

    I treat wahs, filters and phasers the same, and before drive.

    Chorus and Flanger can go before or after drive for me. EVH used Flanger into amp drive and it sounded awesome. I think I prefer chorus into drive for faux-Leslie type sounds and after drive for more classic style chorus.

    In the end, I’d probably be at:
    Wah
    Tuner
    Phaser
    Klone
    Timmy
    Chorus
    Analog Delay
    Echoplex
    Tremolo
    Reverb

    Have fun exploring all the tones available!
    Oh no.....


    Oh Yeah!

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    • #17
      Re: How would you order the pedals of my board?

      In to Out: Tuner, Compression, Wah, Overdrive, Distortion/Fuzz, Tremolo/Vibrato, Delay, Reverb. Just my opinion. I don’t use a Wah, so that part is guesswork ... the rest is pretty solid.


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      • #18
        Re: How would you order the pedals of my board?

        Originally posted by Boogie Bill View Post
        When YOU like it...it's right. Nothing else matters.

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        • #19
          Re: How would you order the pedals of my board?

          I go
          Wah
          Octave
          Gate
          Overdrive
          Fuzz
          Volume
          Amp
          Fx send
          EQ
          Chorus
          Reverb
          Fx return
          Guitars:
          Daemoness Atlantean (unknown Bareknuckles) D
          PRS SE Mark Holcomb (Alpha/Omega set) Drop C
          ESP LTD EC-1000 FR (EMG Het Set) D
          Jackson USA WR1 Absinthe Frost (EMG 81/85) D
          Ibanez MMM1 (Blackouts) Drop A
          Ibanez RGIT20FE-SBF (Loomis Blackout Neck/Mick Thomson Blackout Bridge) Drop C
          Ibanez SZ320 (ibanez/duncan pickups) Drop D
          Schecter Synyster Gates Custom (Invaders set) D
          Aristides 060 (Bareknuckle Aristides Customs) D

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          • #20
            Re: How would you order the pedals of my board?

            I'd order them online.




            Seriously, what everyone else said...
            Originally posted by grumptruck
            No I think James and Dave have that covered. You are obviously rocking way to hard.
            Originally posted by Gear Used
            PRS CE 22 (Custom 5 / 59)
            Gibson Les Paul (Screaming Demon / Pearly Gates)
            Mesa Stiletto Ace
            Gurus 5015
            Mesa Widebody 1X12
            Pedalboard

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