Pedal chain order advice....

[TommyK]

I've just blown all me christmas money on a new pedal so thought it was time to think about a pedal-board re-shuffle...

The pedals i need on the board are:

Boss TU3
MXR octaver
ibanez Chorus
Proton (filter)
Darkglass B3k (Yay! the new one!!)

I have always had octavers first, then tuner, filter, od, and finally chorus.... what are your prefferences on this..... and why?

Cheers in advance.
TK

Edited January 20, 2012 by TommyK

[sixdegrees]

I just stick to a simple rule of having tone pedals (octave, overdrive, fuzz, wah, etc) first, then time-based pedals (chorus, delay, etc) at the end of the chain.

Although some people find good results by putting tone pedals in front of the pre-amp, and having the time-based pedals in the FX loop.

[simwells]

Personally with those I'd go Tuner > Octaver > B3k > Envelope > Chorus

Tuner always first to give it the best signal to work from then octaver for same reasons plus I don't like putting an effected signal into one. Then fuzz/distortion as again earlier always sounds better though obviously it's getting a bit of a struggle now, plus I like distortion into filters rather than the reverse.

I would play around with what you like the sound of though.

[cheddatom]

deffinitely try the filter both sides of your dirt, it's very subjective. I have a choice of fuzz after filter or OD before or after it on my board.

[Al Heeley]

Simwells +1 ^ My personal prefs. Some prefer dirt before chorus, some after. See which works for you. Deffo tuner first though.