Rearranging My Rig

Tyler Rountree · 10-17-2009, 11:33 PM

In the last few years, i've had no need for overdrive pedals in my effect chain because my marshall half stack gave me the drive i was looking for when playing youth praise and worship. but now that i'm moved off and in college, i'm having to change some things up a bit because carrying a half stack across campus every week isn't very easy to do. So instead, i'm having to make do with my fender princeton 65 combo, and now i'm having to add the OD pedals.

here's what i'm planning on putting in the chain:

voodoo lab sparkle drive
maxon OD-9
digitech bad monkey
dunlop cry baby
tc electronics nova delay
boss bf-3 flanger
chorus
tuner

any suggestions on the order to get the best overall tone out of what i'm working with?

**Rainer.** · 10-18-2009, 02:08 PM

I generally start with wah, order the drive pedals from low gain to high gain, do modulation effects (chorus, flanger), then delays/reverbs.

el cabong · 10-18-2009, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainer.

I generally start with wah, order the drive pedals from low gain to high gain, do modulation effects (chorus, flanger), then delays/reverbs.

Agreed.

Tyler Rountree · 10-18-2009, 08:02 PM

ok awesome! thanks a lot! that's what i thought would be best too, but i just saw in an early thread that someone suggested putting the Jekyll & Hyde before a Cry Baby as a "buffer" and didn't quite know if that would be something i should consider

metropolis4 · 10-18-2009, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyler Rountree

ok awesome! thanks a lot! that's what i thought would be best too, but i just saw in an early thread that someone suggested putting the Jekyll & Hyde before a Cry Baby as a "buffer" and didn't quite know if that would be something i should consider

I wouldn't worry about it. You can always try putting your distortion before your wah and see what happens. There's no right or wrong, and you can't hurt anything so knock yourself out trying different combinations and see what you like. Some people put modulations and delays after overdrive, some people put them before. Either way works, just differently..
What Rainer said is a good starting point though and a good rule of thumb.