What's wrong with meeee...? New pedal chain order advise?

[Pierre]

In my search for a distortion pedal I ended up getting a Marshall compressor and I just won a MI Audio Boost N Buff on ebay.


DOH.


Credit card away for... life :drill:


On another hand it means I can use the Bad Monkey as a smooth gain pedal, the Boost N Buff is a buffer/cleanboost/treble boost so it'll go first in chain...and I think I'll be able to COMPLETELY rechange my chain...

I got:

CM Plexitone
Digitech Bad Monkey
Modded SD1 (OD pedal, not boost)
MI Audio Boost N Buff
EH Big Muff (TB)
EH Small Stone Phaser (TB)
Marshall Compressor (I THINK TB...)

Any help or yelling at me is good! And I promise I'll stop. With the Duncan Jazz I seem to have unlocked the Plexitone's secret. It likes lower output pickups a little better. The pedal now has an absolutely beautiful lead tone, especially when boosted by the Bad Monkey!

 

[baritone]

Re: What's wrong with meeee...? New pedal chain order advise?

I would go
amp < distortion < phaser < compressor < guitar

With so many gain-based pedals, you could either hook up just 1 or 2 at a time, or you could throw them into the chain in an alternating pattern for the most tone options:
amp < Plexitone < Muff < SD-1 < Stone < Bad Monkey < Compressor < Boost N Buff < guitar

just an example

 

[Pierre]

Re: What's wrong with meeee...? New pedal chain order advise?

Good idea about the SD1 placement.

Wouldn't it be better to put the compressor first, as I do intend to use the booster with clean tones on which I use the compressor most of the time. With the boost before the compressor it'd just boost it and not my clean sound directly...


So I think I'd go compressor/boost/BM/stone/BadMonkey/Muff/Plexitone. Thanks!

 

[baritone]

Re: What's wrong with meeee...? New pedal chain order advise?

Yeah, you could just choose the specific order after messing around with different setups over time. With pedals like those, you can experiment with the order without limits.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: What's wrong with meeee...? New pedal chain order advise?

So many options. I like the boost late in the chain, so it doesn't boost other gain pedals, only the amp.