Put the boost before the overdrive or put the overdrive before the boost. Starting with overdrives and boosts, you have two options. Especially if you have multiple gain pedals (and be honest, you do). Where you put each pedal will do different things. Overdrives, distortions, boosts, and EQ pedals. Next in your chain would be your dynamic pedals. So I guess give that a shot and report back! Dynamic Pedals
I don’t know if I’ve heard anyone play a compressor and a fuzz at the same time. This same thing happens with fuzz pedals, by the way.
If you have any buzz or hum coming from your overdrive, no matter how small, it gets amplified by the compressor if it comes after an overdrive. That means the loud parts are brought down and the quiet parts are brought up. The primary function of a compressor is to “normalize” your signal. The reason has little to do with tone and much to do with noise. To find out more about pedal power, check out this article.Ĭompressors fall into the next category, Dynamic Pedals, but I highly, highly, highly recommend putting them before any gain pedals. Properly powering your pedals is as important as your signal chain. Pitch shifters also work well at this point in your pedal chain. They respond to your pickup’s dynamics and putting them towards the end reduces their touch sensitivity. One thing that is very much open for debate is if wahs sound better before overdrives and gain pedals, or if they sound better after overdrives and gain pedals.Įnvelope filters and auto wahs would naturally come next. Wahs are another form of tone sucking pedals and typically do better in the beginning of your signal chain. Putting your fuzz pedals before anything else makes sure there aren’t any buffers in front of it. It kind of sucks the life out of your tone. Even buffered bypass pedals can have a significant impact on how your fuzz sounds. Fuzz Pedalsįuzz pedals normally come first because of how they respond (negatively) to buffered pedals. I’ll list these in order as they would be from your guitar to your amp. And while 80% of guitarists might agree on this signal chain, there are different strokes for different folks and different signal paths for different situations. Especially if you’re recording, have a small pedal board, or want to express yourself in a different way than the norm. I’ll go over the reasons as we’re going along.īut don’t get too hung up on this. There are a lot of benefits here and I actually use something similar to this. I’m going to start by going over the standard, recommended, mandatory, do this or else pedal order you’ll see in any article or write up.
Which ultimately will lead you to thoughtful experimenting. From there you’ll have a better understanding of how your pedals interact with each other. In our context, it’s important to understand why this signal chain is the most preferred set up.
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I’m a believer in knowing the rules first, so you know how to break them. So I followed the “rules” I had learned about pedal order.Īnd while I’ve stuck closely to that order, I’ve also done some experimenting with pretty cool results (I’ll show you my preferred signal chain at the end of the article). I eventually graduated to a pedal board (and from high school) and somewhere learned that the order of pedals mattered. I had no idea that the signal chain mattered.Īnd then I got more into pedals which meant I got more pedals. I remember having 3 or 4 pedals laid out on the floor, each with their own power supplies plugged into a power strip. I would love to go back in time to my high school self and see what pedal signal path I used. You might have heard people talk about hard and fast rules, and others that say it doesn’t matter at all just play the solo right for once. Hey, guitarists are an opinionated bunch. If you ask 10 guitarists about preferred pedal order on a pedalboard, you’ll get 30 answers.
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