I am fairly new to this... having previously owned an all-in-one pedalboard that came with built-in wah/ volume control, and more sounds than a drunk gorilla at the zoo. The correct way to line up your pedals on your new, hand assembled professional pedalboard should be as follows... Line in > Tuner (a Boss tuner is apparently what most people choose) > Filters or Wah (since it works off the signal attack from your playing) > Compressor (put as early as possible due to increased noise level) > Overdrive (which is placed before modulation, therefore not fed modulated sounds) > Modulation ... (like Flangers, Phasers, Chorus and Trem) > Volume (last... since it then will not alter the signal level.. will keep the tone, and allow the delay to finish the job after the volume has been minimized.... finally, reverbs and delays are hard to tame and octave overdrives can produce spikes... so taking all these details... and the noisy gorilla... into account, pedalboard layout should be well planned and properly laid out. If you don't take the time, you risk stifling your board.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Drunk Gorilla's
I am fairly new to this... having previously owned an all-in-one pedalboard that came with built-in wah/ volume control, and more sounds than a drunk gorilla at the zoo. The correct way to line up your pedals on your new, hand assembled professional pedalboard should be as follows... Line in > Tuner (a Boss tuner is apparently what most people choose) > Filters or Wah (since it works off the signal attack from your playing) > Compressor (put as early as possible due to increased noise level) > Overdrive (which is placed before modulation, therefore not fed modulated sounds) > Modulation ... (like Flangers, Phasers, Chorus and Trem) > Volume (last... since it then will not alter the signal level.. will keep the tone, and allow the delay to finish the job after the volume has been minimized.... finally, reverbs and delays are hard to tame and octave overdrives can produce spikes... so taking all these details... and the noisy gorilla... into account, pedalboard layout should be well planned and properly laid out. If you don't take the time, you risk stifling your board.
