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The definitive "What order should my FX pedals be placed in?" thread


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People may have said one doesn't 'need' a half-stack to gig but I doubt they said 4x12s are too loud....

 

No, but you NEED to put anything like a 2x12 on it's side, or on tables and chairs, just to hear it.

As much as I think my 2x12 looks cool on it's side, just I only hear the 1 speaker really, so the sound is thinned out a bit. But for the audience, I doubt there's any real difference. Although, on big stages, where you can get far away from the amp, it makes no real difference what you're using, because the sound has had time to spread out, I guess it's a tonal thing in that situation.

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Well whatever size rig you use you need to hear it, which can be a problem if you're using a smaller amp/cab... Plus it looks cool if you have a massive amp:LOL: .

 

 

:rolleyes:

 

Fender seemed to appreciate that we need to hear ourselves and gave 'em little leg things to rest on :)

 

Massive amps are just for teh eg0, or you're compensating for something ;)

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Anyone want to help me out with my effects order? I'm currently experimenting with with what to use and where. My pedal board consists of (in no particular):

 

Zvex Fuzz Probe

Zvex Wah Probe

Digitech Whammy Reissue

Electro Harmonix Big Muff

Digitech Digidelay

Line 6 Dl4

Line 6 FM4

Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phaser

Boss Tremolo

Ibanez Bass Synth

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (gonna lose once i get an amp with good distortion)

Boss PH-3 Phaser (dont really use much)

oh my god look at all those pedals, you are russel from bloc party!

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Here's some fun for you:

 

Boss BF2 Flanger

Boss CE2 Chorus

Boss GE7 EQ

Boss OD3 Overdrive

Boss SD1 Super Overdrive

Electro Harmonix USA Big Muff reissue

Electro Harmonix USA Small Stone reissue

Electro Harmonix Small Stone 70's orange font

Zoom GFX707 (Tuning purposes only)

Vox Clyde McCoy Wah reissue

Line6 DL4

Marshall EH1 Echohead

Digitech Whammy

Zvex Fuzz Probe

ProCo Rat II

 

:)

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Here's some fun for you:

 

Boss BF2 Flanger

Boss CE2 Chorus

Boss GE7 EQ

Boss OD3 Overdrive

Boss SD1 Super Overdrive

Electro Harmonix USA Big Muff reissue

Electro Harmonix USA Small Stone reissue

Electro Harmonix Small Stone 70's orange font

Zoom GFX707 (Tuning purposes only)

Vox Clyde McCoy Wah reissue

Line6 DL4

Marshall EH1 Echohead

Digitech Whammy

Zvex Fuzz Probe

ProCo Rat II

 

:)

yea, but you're not famous (i think) :p

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Here's some fun for you:

 

Boss BF2 Flanger

Boss CE2 Chorus

Boss GE7 EQ

Boss OD3 Overdrive

Boss SD1 Super Overdrive

Electro Harmonix USA Big Muff reissue

Electro Harmonix USA Small Stone reissue

Electro Harmonix Small Stone 70's orange font

Zoom GFX707 (Tuning purposes only)

Vox Clyde McCoy Wah reissue

Line6 DL4

Marshall EH1 Echohead

Digitech Whammy

Zvex Fuzz Probe

ProCo Rat II

 

:)

 

 

probe

whammy

wah

big muff

eq

pro co

sd1

od3

small stone (both)

chorus

flanger

dl4

echohead

zoom

 

 

maybe??? i know the big muff is hard to put in the line when i had mine i had to switch tons of things around

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probe

whammy

wah

big muff

eq

pro co

sd1

od3

small stone (both)

chorus

flanger

dl4

echohead

zoom

 

 

maybe??? i know the big muff is hard to put in the line when i had mine i had to switch tons of things around

 

Interesting, I'd personally go:

 

Wah > Small Stone (Reissue) > Probe > Whammy (Dry out to Zoom) > SD1 > OD3 > Rat > Big Muff > CE2 > Small Stone > BF2 > Echohead > DL4 > EQ

 

Big Muffs in my opinion work best after all over overdrives/distortions, running the Rat into it is great fun. By the way, there isn't any point to this, just seeing what other people would do with these pedals.

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yeah, you can do whatever with pedals it doesn't really matter. i knew you had a personal liking but i just figured owning a couple i'd put my best into it. usually there's an order.. like distortion-pitch shifting-wah-chorus-modulation.. or whatever something like that but you usually have to experiment. i put my whammy after my wah.. i don't know some people do it differently..

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yeah, you can do whatever with pedals it doesn't really matter. i knew you had a personal liking but i just figured owning a couple i'd put my best into it. usually there's an order.. like distortion-pitch shifting-wah-chorus-modulation.. or whatever something like that but you usually have to experiment. i put my whammy after my wah.. i don't know some people do it differently..

 

My Fuzz Probe goes nuts with the wah in front of it, that's the only reason it's there.

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