I have been watching pedal board / FX loop / effects videos all week. And this one is the most precise, clean cut explanation of the process. Thank you.
A truly clear and great explanation on the subject. You have the gift for teaching. I only wish someone had taught me that stuff years ago when being a youngster. But great thanks on behalf of the millions of youngsters out there!
i just surfed youtube for over an hour trying to find a good video to explain this. once again. the tone king delivers. i'm going to this guy from now on! this video was incredibly helpful and really explained to me what i need to do with my hot rod deville 4x10 with my pedals. awesome job TK!
Very clear, nice! As far as compression goes, consider turning OFF when you go OverDrive or Distortion, and ON for cleaner tones, especially if you're playing clean with a loud accompanying band. It can really make the longer tones heard instead of having them get swallowed.
I really like TTK, I saw a lot of your videos :-) But this time I disagree a couple of things...compressors act on dynamic range and not frequencies......and noise gates should go before reverbs and delays to prevent gated tails. Apart that, great video and keep on rocking.
Man you just taught me what I needed to know...best video I've seen on Pedalboards ...The Best...Thanks for spending your time and effort in doing so...P.S You probably" ROCKED "pun Intended" at Legos as a kid...LOL ! Thanks man.
That was the best explanation of the proper order for fx pedals I've seen to date!!! Not only that but you explained the difference between overdrive and distortion as well as how to use them. Also by using those mini amps you really made it easy to follow especially how to use effects loops or high/low gain amps. Thank you very much for this I'm sure i'll be referring friends to this video in the future.
shouldn't the noise gate come before the delay/reverb? if the noise gate is last it is going to cut off the reverb/delay abruptly not allowing them to fade out naturally.
Metallion 1,968 i dont see the logic in that... i have always put it first as i was taught to do and there it works great so please explain why you say it should be last.
I quote it. Right position for the gate/expander is immediately after our axe. Most properly for the NS2 is: guirar>gate in, gate send>hi gain stompbox/amp in, amp send>gate return, gate out>amp return.
I've spent hours looking for a clear, concise explanation regarding effects order and, more important to me, which effects go though the FX loop. This summed it up perfectly.
I put my chorus into the front, it's more organic that way. That said my rig is 2 HW 18w Marshall clone heads (built myself) and stereo 212. Infact it's the same with a phaser for me always into the front, distorted or clean. I suppose it's because I only want to add a bit of texture not go crazy with it (unless it's a tape echo and I've drank my own body weight in beer, in which case the slide comes out and the mess begins).
hi, it´s great to have your advice about things that we wouldn´t know any other way, given your experience and the tons of equipment you have at hand, keep the great job showing us guitar players how to make the best with our equipment, thanks, greetings from México!!!
I'm just busy making the transition from a multi-fx unit to individual stomp boxes and just this one video has been invaluable, thank you. I've subscribed and will be watching a lot more!
I recently purchased a dozen Danelectro pedals and had no idea how to connect them in any kind of order. Thank you so much for the detailed video instruction. It really took a lot of guess work out of trying to figure out this mess that I have pleasantly created. Thanks again Guy
This is the best teaching video I've seen , you explained it so the average Joe can understand especially the distortion overdrive for a clean or dirty amp cheers man
This video was so helpful! I've always played acoustic, I just picked up a small clean amp and and electric pickup for my washburn. I want to start adding effects and this video was an excellent starting point and I feel like it will give me somewhat of a leg to stand on when I go into my local music shop. Thanks.
Dude wtf lol this video is exactly what I was looking for this whole time, it was super easy to understand why certain things go first and why you would need certain pedals on certain amps. This video was killer and super easy to understand everything I was missing in my understanding of a pedal board. Thanks!
Great info. Even after all these years of playing ive never taken the time to find out how to set these kind of things up properly and effectively. Thanx!!!
TK you rock I am a recent entry I just bought a Epiphone 2 guitar amp combo and I have been buying pedals to play metal and it is just bewilering!! Thanks for the vid!! I have already subscribed, and will continue to watch!! Thank you BIG TIME!!
Information in this video is no doubt one of the best...... I been playing around the hard way for the past 2 days and my set up ends up exactly like this.
I am running 15 pedals on my pedal board ... I put a lot of thought into the chain order ... This is the exact order I came up with LONG BEFORE I even got a chance to see your video ... I do not use an FX loop ... Thx 4 having and giving the same opinion and thoughts ... GREAT MINDS think alike ...
That is mental.... That is EXACTLY how i came to setting up my pedals after years of trial and error! All the overdrive before the amp and the rest in my f/x loop. Sweeeet.
this video really helped me. I've also read a lot of how to order my pedals on my pedalboard and they said pretty much the same thing you did. However you said some stuff I didn't know so thank you. My chain is this: guitar>wah>input of boss ns2 noise suppressor then out the send>tuner pedal>boss cs3 compression pedal>mxr dyna comp>ibanez tube screamer>the return of the boss ns2 noise suppressor out the output of the boss ns2 noise suppressor>digitech delay>boss dd6 delay>fender amp. ur thought?
Very interesting way of setting the guit pedals... I use five pedals, and the order in which I use them is very similar to yours... I got the wah first on the right side, and gonna change the sustain next to it, distortion, chorus and delay in that order are the same... that gives me the idea that I had them set up very nice, only the sustain was at the left end, but that's changed... thanks a bunch...!!!
Great video, very helpful and informative. I appreciate how he made sure you understand what he's getting at, compared to other videos where you have to watch 20 times to get the picture.
Hey man, thanks for that. Really helpful! I've been playing for 17 years and am only now starting to use pedals. I was always put off them in the beginning as friends who had effects pedals compensated poor playing with these, so I went for the guitar - wah - amp setup. But I'm using 5 to 6 pedals now as my function band calls for it and I wasn't aware of the importance of what pedal should go where. Again, many thanks.
Question: Where is the best place for: 1) buffer 2) tuner 3) volume pedal? Answers: 1) Most Boss pedals use a buffer so you may not need one. Also, only needed for long cable runs (usually), but NEVER before fuzz or Germanic pedals 2) Anywhere works but in the very front or in the loop is better (first out assuming you don't distort). Coming off a volume pedal AUX output in a loop is best so you can leave it on and in true bypass unless you play metal or distorted only. 3) Back, or in the loop - otherwise use your instrument volume knob. No wrong answer. Some people use more than one so you can adjust input (gain) between pedals. Gets tricky to manage though. Use sparingly. This guy is spot on and knows his stuff. Very understandable and useful content here. Subbed! He laid out in minutes what took me years of trial and error!
This is a very fine video. I'm one of those that play guitar primarily in my living room or bedroom for my own enjoyment which means that I usually play clean only sometimes adding an Ibanez Tube Screamer. That said, lately I've been experimenting with effects like the Roland Space Echo and sometimes add an MXR Custom Badass '78 and/or Boss Chorus pedal. I was a little puzzled about how they should be placed in order. You teach very well and have been a big, big help to me. Thank you!
In 2020 I've been chasing tone. Then I see this video and I realize all my overdrive pedals, ect were in the wrong position on my pedal board. Thank you Tone King, I just found the sound I have been chasing without buying another pedal.
Compression pedals are great for funk riffs where the clean sound is a bit unbalanced and rough, but I'm certainly no expert like this guy. Great video.
Thanks man that's a mystery answered! I have a old zoom 2020 2 x behringer pitch drop harmonisers a noise gate , wah and a behringer slow motion. I take it would be guitar+tuner+ wah+ harmoniser 1+harmoniser 2 + noise gate+ multi effects. The harmonisers I use as a whammy effect one up one down.
I agree with Mr. Ayala. To me this subject I think, to me, is easier than I make it. I thank you Tone King for making this video that makes it the easiest for me to understand. Thank You!
That makes sense! Guitar which is Output to Tube Screamer to input of amp. Use Effects loop for effects chorus etc...Send and Return. Very good explanation; was wondering about the order! Thanks Tone King!
That was a good tutorial. I have come to the same conclusion over the years. I have seen some awful pedal user guides. This girl was using a Fender Frontman, Her idea was that you fit the pedals where the voltage input doesn't get in the way of the next pedal. She had her tuner near the end. She also didn't know the 2 inputs on the Frontman 212R are different. She had no idea what passive or active electrics were and that they each go into different inputs. Thanks again
There are two main places to stick you tuner (if you have it in your chain). At the very start, or just behind the Wah. The reason is that you want to have the purest signal going into your tuner to give you the most accurate results. Things like distortions can introduce harmonics which will interfere with your tuner. A wah generally won't interfere with your pitch so it's ok to chuck that in front of the tuner, as a wah works well with the purest signal.
I am new to the scene of pedals. I had been using guitar processors till now but then I came to realise that I can never find a tone which I can personalise to a desirable extent on a guitar processor than on a custom pedalboard. This is an eye opener video Sir, and kudos to you for enlightening me as to how and where to place the pedals on the pedalboard. Great guiding video! :)
At the beginning, my friend. Or what you may want to do is invest in a line selector pedal. Then you put it at the beginning, and have Line A go to the tuner, and Line B go to the signal chain. What this does is ensures silent tune-ups if you're playing live. Cheers.
3:00 it would depend on if you want to boost the volume or the gain of your sound, if you front end a distortion it will give it more gain, but if you put the overdrive after the distortion it will change the volume..
Thank you so much! I just ordered a bunch of pedals that I ordered and tried and have no idea how to place them with my Marshall JVM. Now I do!! Thank you again. So understandable.
I use both. My main amp is a Marshall Valvestate and it has an excellent spring reverb and I also use a delay pedal. They are very different. I leave my reverb at the same setting but alter my delay all the time. Sometimes very slight and sometimes very long. If I had to choose only one I would go with the delay.
yes noise does come from single coil pickups, BUT, a hissing noise comes from the OD and Dist pedals much more, and even from the OD on the amp, that is why its best to have it set very last in the chain. Either way the NG stops pickup noise, but if set before od channels, it doesnt stop the hiss sound.
It depends on what you're going for if you have a Strat w/noisy pick up's in front, or no other FX in the Loop in front for a Tight dead stop sound. But I would say to use it in the loop @ the end of the signal set to noise suppression, to get rid of HISS from High Gain amp's like the NS-2 Boss has a GATE function that will give you the Dead stop & works great @ the end b4 the Amp If you want the Tight Punchy stop's think D B Darrel.& the NS-2 doubles as a power supply for other box's .
Very informative!! Finally i can just go to your channel and use it for a resource I'm being honest I was getting overwhelmed with everyone's interpretation of sound advice amp's pedals etc This will be my encyclopedia Britannica...Keep up the excellent work.. I will recommend your channel to my musician brethren..
People generally put filter pedals after where the wah would be. If you have no wah, then right in the front. This is because filters require careful tracking of the guitar signal. Personally, I put mine after my compressor because I believe that the fixed dynamic range of a compressed signal would be easier to track. It's not a big audible difference but try both and see what works best for you.
Excellent Video on pedals and pedal board order and on top of that using a loop. I tried setting up through the effects loop once years ago and I hated it. But I didn't really know what I was doing.
Excellent discussion. The only thing I would add is that if you're shifting amps around, some don't like one or more pedals in those "standard" places. Experimentation is the key.
Very informative (and I'm totally on the same page here). I've arrived at all of the same comclusions as what you've covered. -I never had anyone to teach me either. It just came from years of trial an error. -Nice that you covered the effects loop too. One additional "hint", I have a Univibe clone effect in my chain right after the Wha (pre OD/distortion). To my ear, it sound better here. It gets thinned out if you place it after OD/distortion.
Great, very clear, especially with the little amps thrown in for clarity. Thanks,
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I'd say that at the beginning of your signal chain, like after your tuner/wah pedal. Assuming you'd like to get the cleanest signal to acoustic simulate.
well thought out and informative, but there are some avenues of personal preference that you didn't elaborate on. that being said my only real sugestion would be to put the gate after the eq, but before time based so that your gate doesn't cut off the repeats of the or the decay of the reverb. also modulation effects can mess with a stable threshold settings and cause the gate to open inadvertently. all in all it is a good starting point effect novices. thanks for all of you wonderful videos.
The noise gate always goes after everything. Its the last pedal in your lineup. If you have FX loop, then put last in the FX loop, in case you use your amp dist.
Your majesty! Thank you for the video! I really enjoyed it. I wanted to ask though if you have any thoughts or tips on where to put things like a synthesizer pedal, an acoustic simulator, or a looper pedal.
I would place it in the beginning to simulate an acoustic guitar going into the pedals so before or after the wah so its like an acoustic going into the pedals.
tuner goes first if you have a tuner pedal due to the fact other fx's can effect the guitars pitch a little so you want a completely dry signal going into your tuner so you will get your guitar perfectly in tune
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why is equalizer not put after the Delay/Reverb?
Where would you put something like a Digitech Drop Pedal in the chain? Pre or Post?? I would think Pre since it's like an Octaver??
I have been watching pedal board / FX loop / effects videos all week. And this one is the most precise, clean cut explanation of the process. Thank you.
Where would u put your noise gate pedal???
@@leschnyhan1542 end of tone chain =last pedal bfr plugging into front end of amp.
@@michaelgreen5206 Thanks Michael!
And thank you TTK!
I think a noise gate should go near the end, just before reverb and delay, so the trailing delays don't cut out.
A truly clear and great explanation on the subject. You have the gift for teaching. I only wish someone had taught me that stuff years ago when being a youngster. But great thanks on behalf of the millions of youngsters out there!
Brilliant. Such a simple common sense video, Facts, logic, and personal wisdom. Thank you. Your ten minute talk has probably saved me hours.
A side note: The Graphic EQ also works very well as a boost for solos. I have mine in the same position as his and it works well.
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i just surfed youtube for over an hour trying to find a good video to explain this. once again. the tone king delivers. i'm going to this guy from now on! this video was incredibly helpful and really explained to me what i need to do with my hot rod deville 4x10 with my pedals. awesome job TK!
This is a must-see video, PERIOD!!!
This is by far, without a doubt, the best video breakdown of pedal board chains out there. Thank you and rock on
Most useful video on youtube I seen so far
Very clear, nice! As far as compression goes, consider turning OFF when you go OverDrive or Distortion, and ON for cleaner tones, especially if you're playing clean with a loud accompanying band. It can really make the longer tones heard instead of having them get swallowed.
THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST VIDEO! THANKS!
when you say paint the picture, you really know how to paint. You are very good at explaining this
I really like TTK, I saw a lot of your videos :-)
But this time I disagree a couple of things...compressors act on dynamic range and not frequencies......and noise gates should go before reverbs and delays to prevent gated tails.
Apart that, great video and keep on rocking.
Agree with dynamics on compressor where do you have it in your chain I like it first or 2nd
Man you just taught me what I needed to know...best video I've seen on Pedalboards ...The Best...Thanks for spending your time and effort in doing so...P.S You probably" ROCKED "pun Intended" at Legos as a kid...LOL ! Thanks man.
This video 10 years of age.. But the facts is i need this info right now.. Huhuhu.. Thanks TTK
That was the best explanation of the proper order for fx pedals I've seen to date!!! Not only that but you explained the difference between overdrive and distortion as well as how to use them. Also by using those mini amps you really made it easy to follow especially how to use effects loops or high/low gain amps. Thank you very much for this I'm sure i'll be referring friends to this video in the future.
shouldn't the noise gate come before the delay/reverb? if the noise gate is last it is going to cut off the reverb/delay abruptly not allowing them to fade out naturally.
nope, it is the other way around, trust me and the Tone king is absolutely right.
Just answering your question bro.
Metallion 1,968 i dont see the logic in that... i have always put it first as i was taught to do and there it works great so please explain why you say it should be last.
I agree...putting it after the delay/chorus really kills those pedals whole purpose.
I quote it. Right position for the gate/expander is immediately after our axe. Most properly for the NS2 is: guirar>gate in, gate send>hi gain stompbox/amp in, amp send>gate return, gate out>amp return.
I agree, the gate will cut the Trails
I've spent hours looking for a clear, concise explanation regarding effects order and, more important to me, which effects go though the FX loop. This summed it up perfectly.
finally this guy gets it ..loop your damm delay and verbs ax players ..
I put my chorus into the front, it's more organic that way. That said my rig is 2 HW 18w Marshall clone heads (built myself) and stereo 212. Infact it's the same with a phaser for me always into the front, distorted or clean. I suppose it's because I only want to add a bit of texture not go crazy with it (unless it's a tape echo and I've drank my own body weight in beer, in which case the slide comes out and the mess begins).
I put it first in line as far as modulators, followed by pitch shifter
EVH did this for his infamous brown sound
Cheers to you , this would be up there among the most sensible things on the internet
You have enlightened me.
Now I need the moneyz.
hi, it´s great to have your advice about things that we wouldn´t know any other way, given your experience and the tons of equipment you have at hand, keep the great job showing us guitar players how to make the best with our equipment, thanks, greetings from México!!!
Look at that purdy 5150!
FX order for dummy's!
I love it.
Being an effects novice, I needed this.
Very helpful.
Thanks for posting.
Where would you put an acoustic simulator in this same setup?
Between the compressor and the wah.
I'm just busy making the transition from a multi-fx unit to individual stomp boxes and just this one video has been invaluable, thank you. I've subscribed and will be watching a lot more!
multi-fx unit 😆
I recently purchased a dozen Danelectro pedals and had no idea how to connect them in any kind of order. Thank you so much for the detailed video instruction. It really took a lot of guess work out of trying to figure out this mess that I have pleasantly created.
Thanks again
Guy
This is the best teaching video I've seen , you explained it so the average Joe can understand especially the distortion overdrive for a clean or dirty amp cheers man
This video was so helpful! I've always played acoustic, I just picked up a small clean amp and and electric pickup for my washburn. I want to start adding effects and this video was an excellent starting point and I feel like it will give me somewhat of a leg to stand on when I go into my local music shop. Thanks.
thanks for this!...after 30 years of playing ive never had any proper fx pedals and now i know what i can do! cheers!
My respect, for a guy who really likes be helpful and truthful to the great art of music. CHEERS from Portugal, ToneKing!
dude thanks for helping me figure out my effects chain. You rock!!!
Dude wtf lol this video is exactly what I was looking for this whole time, it was super easy to understand why certain things go first and why you would need certain pedals on certain amps. This video was killer and super easy to understand everything I was missing in my understanding of a pedal board. Thanks!
Great info. Even after all these years of playing ive never taken the time to find out how to set these kind of things up properly and effectively. Thanx!!!
This is the most clear and concise instruction I've seen. Thumbs up!!!
Very concise pedal order instructional! Thank you for taking the time to explain these concepts so clearly.
TK you rock I am a recent entry I just bought a Epiphone 2 guitar amp combo and I have been buying pedals to play metal and it is just bewilering!! Thanks for the vid!! I have already subscribed, and will continue to watch!! Thank you BIG TIME!!
10 years later and this was invaluable. Many thanks mate.
Information in this video is no doubt one of the best...... I been playing around the hard way for the past 2 days and my set up ends up exactly like this.
I am running 15 pedals on my pedal board ... I put a lot of thought into the chain order ... This is the exact order I came up with LONG BEFORE I even got a chance to see your video ... I do not use an FX loop ... Thx 4 having and giving the same opinion and thoughts ... GREAT MINDS think alike ...
behringer pedals sound really good when you got the right setting and have them in the right spot
That is mental.... That is EXACTLY how i came to setting up my pedals after years of trial and error! All the overdrive before the amp and the rest in my f/x loop. Sweeeet.
this video really helped me. I've also read a lot of how to order my pedals on my pedalboard and they said pretty much the same thing you did. However you said some stuff I didn't know so thank you. My chain is this: guitar>wah>input of boss ns2 noise suppressor then out the send>tuner pedal>boss cs3 compression pedal>mxr dyna comp>ibanez tube screamer>the return of the boss ns2 noise suppressor out the output of the boss ns2 noise suppressor>digitech delay>boss dd6 delay>fender amp. ur thought?
Thanks you make it clear and simple but understandable thanks again.
never used pedals, had multi effects, but now that i understand more about pedals i am thinking of changing from digital to analog effects. thanks man
Very interesting way of setting the guit pedals... I use five pedals, and the order in which I use them is very similar to yours... I got the wah first on the right side, and gonna change the sustain next to it, distortion, chorus and delay in that order are the same... that gives me the idea that I had them set up very nice, only the sustain was at the left end, but that's changed... thanks a bunch...!!!
Great video, very helpful and informative. I appreciate how he made sure you understand what he's getting at, compared to other videos where you have to watch 20 times to get the picture.
This explained everything perfectly for me after reading articles and watching videos for the past week, thank you!
Hey man, thanks for that. Really helpful! I've been playing for 17 years and am only now starting to use pedals. I was always put off them in the beginning as friends who had effects pedals compensated poor playing with these, so I went for the guitar - wah - amp setup. But I'm using 5 to 6 pedals now as my function band calls for it and I wasn't aware of the importance of what pedal should go where. Again, many thanks.
This is the best explanation I've gotten so far. A good, simple way of explaining it. Thanks for the video
Excellent summary. I also love the mini-amps doing the stunt/stand-in work during the high-gain distortion segment. Will definitely subscribe!
Question: Where is the best place for: 1) buffer 2) tuner 3) volume pedal?
Answers:
1) Most Boss pedals use a buffer so you may not need one. Also, only needed for long cable runs (usually), but NEVER before fuzz or Germanic pedals
2) Anywhere works but in the very front or in the loop is better (first out assuming you don't distort). Coming off a volume pedal AUX output in a loop is best so you can leave it on and in true bypass unless you play metal or distorted only.
3) Back, or in the loop - otherwise use your instrument volume knob. No wrong answer. Some people use more than one so you can adjust input (gain) between pedals. Gets tricky to manage though. Use sparingly.
This guy is spot on and knows his stuff. Very understandable and useful content here. Subbed! He laid out in minutes what took me years of trial and error!
This is a very fine video. I'm one of those that play guitar primarily in my living room or bedroom for my own enjoyment which means that I usually play clean only sometimes adding an Ibanez Tube Screamer. That said, lately I've been experimenting with effects like the Roland Space Echo and sometimes add an MXR Custom Badass '78 and/or Boss Chorus pedal. I was a little puzzled about how they should be placed in order. You teach very well and have been a big, big help to me. Thank you!
In 2020 I've been chasing tone. Then I see this video and I realize all my overdrive pedals, ect were in the wrong position on my pedal board. Thank you Tone King, I just found the sound I have been chasing without buying another pedal.
Compression pedals are great for funk riffs where the clean sound is a bit unbalanced and rough, but I'm certainly no expert like this guy. Great video.
I've heard of musical chairs but musical pedals is much more fun and makes more sense. Great job, very well and clearly explained, thank you.
Thanks man that's a mystery answered! I have a old zoom 2020 2 x behringer pitch drop harmonisers a noise gate , wah and a behringer slow motion. I take it would be guitar+tuner+ wah+ harmoniser 1+harmoniser 2 + noise gate+ multi effects. The harmonisers I use as a whammy effect one up one down.
Killer man. Really good rundown, especially keeping the fx loop separate on a good high gain amp. A lot of people don't understand that.
thanx alot man...I am a old guy getting back into playing and I really appreciated your description of effects order and amp chains...cool
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I agree with Mr. Ayala. To me this subject I think, to me, is easier than I make it. I thank you Tone King for making this video that makes it the easiest for me to understand. Thank You!
That makes sense! Guitar which is Output to Tube Screamer to input of amp. Use Effects loop for effects chorus etc...Send and Return. Very good explanation; was wondering about the order! Thanks Tone King!
That was a good tutorial. I have come to the same conclusion over the years. I have seen some awful pedal user guides. This girl was using a Fender Frontman, Her idea was that you fit the pedals where the voltage input doesn't get in the way of the next pedal. She had her tuner near the end. She also didn't know the 2 inputs on the Frontman 212R are different. She had no idea what passive or active electrics were and that they each go into different inputs. Thanks again
Rock on, mate! Now everything is clear, you are giving some light in to this beginner's darkness!
There are two main places to stick you tuner (if you have it in your chain). At the very start, or just behind the Wah. The reason is that you want to have the purest signal going into your tuner to give you the most accurate results. Things like distortions can introduce harmonics which will interfere with your tuner. A wah generally won't interfere with your pitch so it's ok to chuck that in front of the tuner, as a wah works well with the purest signal.
I am new to the scene of pedals. I had been using guitar processors till now but then I came to realise that I can never find a tone which I can personalise to a desirable extent on a guitar processor than on a custom pedalboard. This is an eye opener video Sir, and kudos to you for enlightening me as to how and where to place the pedals on the pedalboard.
Great guiding video! :)
At the beginning, my friend. Or what you may want to do is invest in a line selector pedal. Then you put it at the beginning, and have Line A go to the tuner, and Line B go to the signal chain. What this does is ensures silent tune-ups if you're playing live.
Cheers.
yes it does!!! tuner comes first, and volume pedal comes last (unless you have a looper, where it would be last and volume would be second last)
3:00 it would depend on if you want to boost the volume or the gain of your sound, if you front end a distortion it will give it more gain, but if you put the overdrive after the distortion it will change the volume..
Thanks for the video. It is the most clear and understandable pedal order explanation I've seen.
Thank you so much! I just ordered a bunch of pedals that I ordered and tried and have no idea how to place them with my Marshall JVM. Now I do!! Thank you again. So understandable.
OH THANKS, man. I realy reduced a lot of noise from my set, I was putting the EQ for last, even after the phaser! Now this is sweet.
I use both. My main amp is a Marshall Valvestate and it has an excellent spring reverb and I also use a delay pedal. They are very different. I leave my reverb at the same setting but alter my delay all the time. Sometimes very slight and sometimes very long. If I had to choose only one I would go with the delay.
yes noise does come from single coil pickups, BUT, a hissing noise comes from the OD and Dist pedals much more, and even from the OD on the amp, that is why its best to have it set very last in the chain. Either way the NG stops pickup noise, but if set before od channels, it doesnt stop the hiss sound.
It depends on what you're going for if you have a Strat w/noisy pick up's in front, or no other FX in the Loop in front for a Tight dead stop sound. But I would say to use it in the loop @ the end of the signal set to noise suppression, to get rid of HISS from High Gain amp's like the NS-2 Boss has a GATE function that will give you the Dead stop & works great @ the end b4 the Amp If you want the Tight Punchy stop's think D B Darrel.& the NS-2 doubles as a power supply for other box's .
Very informative!!
Finally i can just go to your channel and use it for a resource I'm being honest I was getting overwhelmed with everyone's interpretation of sound advice amp's pedals etc This will be my encyclopedia Britannica...Keep up the excellent work..
I will recommend your channel to my musician brethren..
People generally put filter pedals after where the wah would be. If you have no wah, then right in the front. This is because filters require careful tracking of the guitar signal. Personally, I put mine after my compressor because I believe that the fixed dynamic range of a compressed signal would be easier to track. It's not a big audible difference but try both and see what works best for you.
Wow this guy is great! He can explain his idea really good.
Excellent Video on pedals and pedal board order and on top of that using a loop. I tried setting up through the effects loop once years ago and I hated it. But I didn't really know what I was doing.
Ive been playing for 6 years and this should be mandatory veiwing for all players
Excellent discussion. The only thing I would add is that if you're shifting amps around, some don't like one or more pedals in those "standard" places. Experimentation is the key.
That sounds right. I think best might be the eq into amp as he has it, and modulation and delay effects (time based) in the effects loop.
Very informative (and I'm totally on the same page here). I've arrived at all of the same comclusions as what you've covered. -I never had anyone to teach me either. It just came from years of trial an error. -Nice that you covered the effects loop too. One additional "hint", I have a Univibe clone effect in my chain right after the Wha (pre OD/distortion). To my ear, it sound better here. It gets thinned out if you place it after OD/distortion.
Great, very clear, especially with the little amps thrown in for clarity. Thanks,
I'd say that at the beginning of your signal chain, like after your tuner/wah pedal. Assuming you'd like to get the cleanest signal to acoustic simulate.
This is the best explanation I have heard on the subject yet! I also wonder where you place the tuner and looper. Thanks Tone King!!
well thought out and informative, but there are some avenues of personal preference that you didn't elaborate on. that being said my only real sugestion would be to put the gate after the eq, but before time based so that your gate doesn't cut off the repeats of the or the decay of the reverb. also modulation effects can mess with a stable threshold settings and cause the gate to open inadvertently. all in all it is a good starting point effect novices. thanks for all of you wonderful videos.
Hey thanks for the help! Very Clear! I'm going to have a clean amp and a dirty amp at the end of two chains on my board...
The noise gate always goes after everything. Its the last pedal in your lineup. If you have FX loop, then put last in the FX loop, in case you use your amp dist.
Your majesty! Thank you for the video! I really enjoyed it. I wanted to ask though if you have any thoughts or tips on where to put things like a synthesizer pedal, an acoustic simulator, or a looper pedal.
Very good, straight-ahead explanation.....Nice work, Tone King !!!
This guy knows what he's talking about, for some reason I just watched a bunch of similar videos , not so much, this is good info.
I would place it in the beginning to simulate an acoustic guitar going into the pedals so before or after the wah so its like an acoustic going into the pedals.
Thanks, TK. Finally, a pedalboard guide explained in a way I can remember
This video is quite old but damn that's the best tutorial on how to set a pedalboard/loop. You just got a subscriber sir!
NICE, SIMPLE AND CLEAR; ALL I ALWAYS WANTED TO ASK, BUT WITH NOBODY THERE TO ANSWER ! THANKS A LOT !
BEST REGARDS !
Thanks for the insight ! Really straightens out the questions most of us have !
tuner goes first if you have a tuner pedal due to the fact other fx's can effect the guitars pitch a little so you want a completely dry signal going into your tuner so you will get your guitar perfectly in tune
I had to watch this like and comment after seeing the Intheblues live feed hookup you joined today :) I really enjoyed it.