The same goes for loopers: they will loop whatever they are fed so having them right at the start of your chain means the loops themselves will be affected by every effect change that comes after.

We believe that some of the most creative sounds happen when you throw out the rule book and just experiment.

We understand And yes, there is, within reason, an accepted way of hooking up pedals.

Well go through all of this with you and well also take a look at pedal boards themselves and methods for powering your set up.

General wisdom dictates that, roughly speaking, it should go: utility (tuners, compressors etc) followed by drives, then modulations and finally ambience (reverbs and delays).

This will give you a good basis to work from: modulations come after the gain in order to sound more present and there whilst the ambient effects come at the end in order to keep your sound from being washed out.

To be fair, his exceptional volume levels played a factor in those sounds still having considerable impact so this may not work just as well at non-stadium volume settings.

Our order of hooking things up will be for achieving the greatest good to suit the greatest number of players.

All of these pedals serve purposes that are more practical than sonic.

If you put it at the end of your chain, you compromise its ability to do this well.

Compressors need to be in control of your whole signal for them to be most effective.

If you intend it for a solo boost, place it after the distortion.

Boost pedals can go in between any of these depending on how many options you want (hint, for the most options, put the boost last) and of course how many drives you use Fuzz tends to eat up the frequencies so putting a further drive pedal after one often proves ineffective.

By that same logic, a high gain metal pedal can happily sit sonically on top of a low gain overdrive but a low gain overdrive will often get lost coming straight after a huge metal high gain sound.

You can achieve some very interesting and useful sounds this way and of course you can also enjoy two separate flavours of low gain tone by using the two pedals individually.

Keep them at the end where they can do their ethereal job properly.

You need to let the sound dictate how you play but that can be exciting too For more traditional sounds, stick this at the end.

Again, experimentation can certainly reap rewards but this order will give you a high quality, professional tone.

Wah pedals should be thought of, in this context at least, as really over the top sounding EQ pedals so they should occupy a similar space on your board.

Putting a wah after your drive pedals makes you sound like a demented Donald Duck and there is a huge volume jump too, which just sounds wrong.

For example, putting a Whammy pedal right at the end of your chain allows you to change the pitch of your delay pedals repeats in real time as they occur by just moving your foot.

Pretty cool But these effects can realistically go anywhere: wed perhaps suggest having them in with your modulation pedals to get the correct sound.

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