How to Set up a BCB-60

Bsinnott

Hi guys. I am just about to buy a Boss BCB-60 pedal board and was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to set it up with the following pedals. Boss CS3 Compressor, Boss DD-7 Delay, Boss GE-7 Equalizer, Digitech Bad Monkey Tubescreamer, Krog Pitchblack tuner and a Boss CH-1 Chorus. Thanks

punchdrunk

Bsinnott wrote: »

Hi guys. I am just about to buy a Boss BCB-60 pedal board and was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to set it up with the following pedals. Boss CS3 Compressor, and a . Thanks

Hi generally I would go

Amp <- Boss DD-7 Delay,Boss CH-1 Chorus,Boss GE-7 Equalizer,Boss CS3 Compressor,Digitech Bad Monkey Tubescreamer,<-Guitar

(I'd run the pitch black from the mixer out on the bad monkey to keep it from tonesucking in your chain)

rcaz

Play around with the order and find what suits you best OP! There are no rules or anything, what one guys thinks is awful could be another guy's 'signature' sound!

The only thing I might suggest you do, as a kind of 'rule' (though of course a very loose one!) is to put the equaliser before the compressor (say you want to cut out a lot of bass from the signal, you might want to do that before compression so that all the compressor isn't being driven by frequencies you don't want to hear in the end, if you get me). Other than that, spend a few hours figuring it out!

A lot of people always like to put delay at the very end, but putting your delay before your chorus can be a really cool effect that might be exactly perfect some times. Yeah, if you leave the tuner out of the signal chain like punchdrunk suggested, it won't 'tonesuck', but if it's in your signal chain you can use it as a kill switch which can be another really cool effect. If you have the tuner right at the end, after delay and everything, you could build up a big wall of feedbacky delays and cut it all out instantly with the tuner, which sounds great sometimes.

The most important thing is to figure out all the possible sounds your gear allows in all the possible permutations and then decide which ones are right for you!

Bsinnott

Thanks a million guys! Yeah, I've just been playing around a bit so far. I've had a few variations that just sounded terrible but have a very similar one to what both you have said with Delay and Chorus at the end! Dying to get them all in the pedal board now! Cheers again

Frusciante

It really depends what you're trying to do, as everyone says, at the end of the day its up to you what sounds the best, but for me i'd probably go

Guitar - Compressor first, so your sound is evened out before you hit anything else

Compressor - 2 overdrives whichever order you prefer, depends whether you're using them seperately in which case it won't matter, but if you're stacking them it'll depend on whatever sounds nicest

Overdrive - Equaliser This is what i do, because you can use the equaliser as a solo boost on your clean channel, or on either or both of the overdrives, although if you put the equaliser before your overdrives you can boost the signal going into the overdrive pedal which'll make it have a more saturated(distorted) sound

Equaliser - Delay - Chorus This is very subjective, but i like the sound of a clean delay, and then being able to modulate it after its delayed, again all personal taste though.

Chorus - Amp Although if your amp has an effects loop then you might prefer the chorus and delay in the effects loop, this will give a less effected(affected?) sound from the pedals, i don't, others do.

Experiment with everything, that set up is what i like, although a few weeks ago i heard a guy playing, liked his sound and looked at his board, he was going guitar - delay - overdrive - phaser/chorus - boost - amp