Effects Order

**jamforchrist123** · 09-22-2009, 05:43 PM

I now have a rather wide array of pedals again. Since I've arrived at college, I've gone gung-ho and been buying and trading stuff like crazy and am pretty happy with my results. My only question is, since I have been using the PODxt live for quite some time now, I'm not really sure what order to put the pedals in. Here's what I have:

Dunlop GCB-95 Crybaby
Ernie Ball Volume
Keeley Modded DS-1
Danelectro Fab Tone
Visual Sound Jekyll and Hyde
Fulltone Fulldrive 2
Digitech Jamman
Line6 Echo Park Delay

Dang, that's a lot of OD pedals I just realized

al that will bel going into a Blackheart Little Giant Head and possibly in the future a Fender Pro Junior. (the guitar I'm using is a Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Thinline). I'm also looking at finding a cheap chorus I can stick in there as well.

Any help would be rad! Thanks ya'll.

**thesteve** · 09-22-2009, 06:00 PM

If I were to apply the same logic that I used in putting mine together it would look like this:

J&H --> wah --> Fulltone --> DS-1 --> Fab Tone --> Volume --> Delay --> Jamman

I'm not totally certain about the looper. I put the J&H first because I found that the buffer really helps with the Crybaby if you have one of the tone sucking versions. Otherwise, I would put the wah first and put the J&H between the FD2 and the DS-1.

**jamforchrist123** · 09-22-2009, 06:12 PM

Yeah I'm pretty sure it is the tone sucking version. I haven't gotten to hook it up yet because I've been so busy here at College, but I've read a lot about it and yeah, it reads to be a tone sucker haha. Thanks a lot.

I'm guessing putting the Jamman last would make sense as it's just supposed to make repeats of your main tone. And just out of curiosity, why not the Volume first? I always figured that you would put it first so you have a clrean signal to send to the tuner and so it controls exactly what is going into all the pedals. Of course that could just be rubbish and I could not be making any sense as well.

**thesteve** · 09-22-2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jamforchrist123

I'm guessing putting the Jamman last would make sense as it's just supposed to make repeats of your main tone. And just out of curiosity, why not the Volume first? I always figured that you would put it first so you have a clrean signal to send to the tuner and so it controls exactly what is going into all the pedals. Of course that could just be rubbish and I could not be making any sense as well.

There's a couple different mentalities to take with volume placement.

Some folks put it first so they can fine tune the gain of the signal that goes into the drive pedals. I've always felt that this essentially makes your volume pedal a duplicate of your guitar's volume knob. I put my volume pedal after my drives because I want to be able to swell from zero to full volume without any change in the basic tone of the signal.

As far as using the tuner out on the volume, I generally just try to tune with my drive pedals off anyway. I can understand your logic, but feel that it would reduce the functionality of the volume pedal for what I want to achieve with it.

**jamforchrist123** · 09-22-2009, 06:21 PM

I never even thought about that. I really like the idea of doing swells with the basic tone fully intact. Thanks, as I was rather un-aware. It's been a looooong time since i've used single pedals

relient nelson · 09-23-2009, 12:56 AM

wow... Steve said it the exact same way I would have.. and for the exact same reasons... I feel unnecessary. haha

**jamforchrist123** · 09-29-2009, 05:03 PM

Question. I have the passive Volume pedal, and I read somewhere that you are supposed to put it first since it is passive. Is this a bunch of crap? As I'm really digging the idea of running it after my ODs but we all know that EVERYTHING we read on the internet is the truth...

**thesteve** · 09-29-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jamforchrist123

Question. I have the passive Volume pedal, and I read somewhere that you are supposed to put it first since it is passive. Is this a bunch of crap? As I'm really digging the idea of running it after my ODs but we all know that EVERYTHING we read on the internet is the truth...

Eh...there might be some reasoning behind it, but I run my passive volume pedal mid-board with no issues.

relient nelson · 09-29-2009, 05:10 PM

Yeah, I've never had any problems.

**jamforchrist123** · 09-29-2009, 05:26 PM

Ok thanks. I will get around to doing that then. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to mess anything up or reduce functionality or whatevs...

**jamforchrist123** · 10-09-2009, 08:29 AM

I just got an email while in class that my Fulldrive II FINALLY arrived in the mail. The second of this class is going to take FOREVER