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Uses & Functions of a Pedal Board
Components Necessary for a Pedal Board
How to Pick a Pedal Board Case
How to Plan Your Pedal Board
How to Set Up Power for a Pedal Board
How to Determine Order of Gear on Pedal Boards
Understanding Gain-based Effects on Pedal Boards
Understanding Noise Suppressors on Pedal Boards
Understanding Tuners on Pedal Boards
Understanding Modulation-based Effects on Pedal Boards
Understanding Time-based Effects on Pedal Boards
How to Attach Pedals to a Pedal Board
How to Set Up Cables for a Pedal Board
How to Set Levels on a Pedal Board
How to Set Levels for Gain-based Effect Pedals
How to Set Levels for Modulation-based Effect Pedals
How to Set Levels for Time-based Effect Pedals
How to Use Pedal Board with Guitar Rig
How to Troubleshoot a Pedal Board
How to Maintain a Pedal Board
Summary: Learn how to determine what order to put guitar pedals in on a pedal board in this free custom guitar video.
Adam Anderson is an accomplished guitarist who has performed in top rock clubs throughout the United States, as well as at several large outdoor festivals. One of Adam's great...read more
"Hi! This is Adam Anderson on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to talk to you about figuring out the order of your pedal board. So the next step in assembling your pedal board is determining the order in which you put your affects in. It is very important to put your affects in the right order because each of the different affects pedals interact with each other and you need to put them in the right order or your tone isn't going to be the best it could be. There are different orders that you can put your affects pedals in depending on the type of tone you are looking for. If you put your pedals in the incorrect order, you will get tones that really aren't the best that they could be. They aren't the tones that the individual pedals are really meant to put out there. I like to first start with the game based affects when assembling my pedal board. The game based affect should go first because they are the different affects that will determine the volume of the actual guitar signal that is going through the other affects. Depending on the different kind of set up you have with your pedal board, I would always start with your game based affects starting with your distortion pedal. It all depends on th set up you have your pedal board in. If yoiu are going to be running your pedal board directly into the amp before the pre-amp, I would suggest that you put your distortion pedal first. Starting with your game based affects like I said you should put your distortion pedal first. The game based affect should go before your time based affects and including your time based affects, I would include your modulation based affects like your chorus, your flanger or your phaser faster pedals. After your modulation based affects, I would recommend that you put your time based affects last like your reverb, digital reverb, your digital delay, analog delay or echo pedals. The reason you want to put your affects in the right order is because you don't want to compromise your sound. "
eHow Article: How to Determine Order of Gear on Pedal Boards
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Comments
deathmetallica said
on 8/26/2009 hi
what is the line selector you are talkin bout??
diggitydug said
on 12/26/2008 What do you do with a Wah pedal? Is that considered a modulation pedal?
evuser11434 said
on 8/2/2008 NOOOOOO!!!! If you use pedals that detect an envelope such as Octave pedals etc then they HAVE TO GO FIRST!!!!! You wouldn't stick a distortion pedal infront of an octave pedal or a tuner because they won't detect the note... the distortion will have scrambled it by the time it reaches them. My pedal order is Boss TU-2 chromatic tuner, Boss NS-2 noise suppressor which sends to..., Boss PW-10 wah, Boss OC-3 Octave, Boss CS-3 Compression..... which goes to the line selector and then I put my gain pedals in their own line..... Boss DS-1, Boss GE-7 EQ, Boss MT-2 and my modulation pedals in their own line too as I use these primarily for a clean sound..... Boss PH-3 phase shifter, Marshall Vibratrem, Boss CE-5 chorus ensemble, .....the line selector then feeds back to the return point of the noise suppressor and outputs to my amp via the Boss DD-3 Digital Delay. Big fan of Boss incase you didn't notice. I find that this line up gives me a pretty good tone. I highly recommend getting a line selector of some kind and the Boss one of course is brilliant. Line selectors make switching between your gain and clean settings far easier and can make getting a good level far easier. They obviously have other functions but this is their most basic. I hope this helps anyone wanting reassurance on how to set up their pedal line up..... just remember............ Envelope detector pedals _ wah _ Gain _ Modulation and finish with either a delay or chorus pedal as these usually have stereo outputs if you wish to use two amps. All should be good from there but, with exceptions of a few rules, it has a lot to do with personal prefference too.