pedal order

Steoob

hey just wondering whats the correct pedal order for me... i play bass and i have a ds-1 distortion, a big muff, a compressor and a wah i know the wah goes first but after that i dunno... help... thanks... please...

feylya

There is no "Right" order to put them. Mess around with combinations and see what you can come up with.

Personally, I'd have

Bass - Wah - DS-1 - Big Muff - Compressor - Amp

John

Generally (and I stress the word generally) it's best to put the compressor first as it models your sound. Then I'd say the wah and the two distortion pedals. But as the Feymeister said just experiment and see which suits you.

Eoin Madsen

John2 wrote:

Generally (and I stress the word generally) it's best to put the compressor first as it models your sound.

Not really. It makes as much sense to put it after the Wah since a Wah introduces a considerable amount of dynamic. It depends on the Wah sound you're going for. A compressor will also change the manner in which the distortion works very considerably, which is really a matter of taste. I think generally it's better to put a compressor after any dynamic or modulation effects but before any time based effects (delay, reverb).

Tbh, I'd go with Feylya chain. Or maybe:

Bass - DS-1 - Big Muff - Wah - Compressor
or:
Bass - DS-1 - Wah - Compressor - Big Muff, just to mess with the Wah sound.
But you know...

The possibilities are endless, and everything will be at least subtley if not obviously different.

Experimentation is the only way to go.

John

Eoin Madsen wrote:

Not really. It makes as much sense to put it after the Wah since a Wah introduces a considerable amount of dynamic.

Whoops, I read "Compressor" and thought "Equaliser". I'd put an equaliser first but I wouldn't put a compressor anywhere because I don't really see the point of one. Well I see the point but I don't need one.

WetDaddy

This is gonna sound ridiculous, but... ...As a singer / guitarist, I find it really important to have the pedals set up in a order which minimises movement since I'm glued to the mic quite a lot.

Consequently, the position of the Wah has to be somewhere where I ain't gonna lose balance stretching over to it! Also, if you find yourself moving between two particular pedals quite a lot, I'd place them beside each other. Oh, and if you get a tuner, be sure to place it at either end of the chain: The last thing you want is to be breaking into a finger-blisterin', distortion soaked solo (that's what you lead guitarists call them, right?) and find you've totally muted yourself.

John

deathfunk wrote:

breaking into a finger-blisterin', distortion soaked solo (that's what you lead guitarists call them, right?)

I prefer the term face melting solo