I'm going to move this to the appropriate forum later today but I wanted to start it here to get a little traction.
I'm a big pedal guy (in case you haven't noticed
) and I'm in the process of redoing one pedalboard and building a new one from scratch. I thought it might be cool to discuss the process with everyone and see how everyone else does it in terms of power supplies, pedal order, what you actually put the pedals on and whatnot.
The basics for me (with both rigs) are a Pedaltrain board in a soft case (A PT pro for the big rig and a PT 2 for the smaller one). I have a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ supplying power for each setup. And both rigs each have a Sonic Research Turbo Tuner. I really dig the Turbo Tuner for a number of reasons but it is really most important because I can program the tuning offsets for the Buzz Feiten intonation system that both Suhrs I own have. They took a little getting used to since they are super accurate but the display can be confusing to a first time user. The ultimate would be if they came out with something more along the lines of TC Electronics Polytune. Or if the Polytune could do the Feiten offsets.
The first pedal that effects my sound in the bigger board is a Fulltone Clyde Standard wah pedal. I need it for the cover gigs but I don't have one in my smaller pedalboard since its not a sound I use for my original music or the blues gigs.
After that, the pedals go in order of gain...dirtiest pedals first and cleaner boosts later. That way I can boost a solo regardless of the amount of gain that a rhythm guitar sound has. The only exception to this is my compressor, which is right after the wah pedal. I like it earlier in the signal path although I don't use it with heavy distortion sounds.
After the pedals that affect the amount of gain or distortion or drive or whatever you want to call it we get into my time based effects. Typically I have things like chorus and Phasers first, delays next and last in the signal path is my reverb if I have one. To me that is the most natural order of pedals but the reality is that there is no correct way to order your effects...some folks have their clean boost after everything. Other folks use EQ pedals as boosts. In a little bit I'm going to post about using loops in your pedalboard and how one of my rigs is run that way and the other (so far) is not.
I'm a big pedal guy (in case you haven't noticed
) and I'm in the process of redoing one pedalboard and building a new one from scratch. I thought it might be cool to discuss the process with everyone and see how everyone else does it in terms of power supplies, pedal order, what you actually put the pedals on and whatnot.The basics for me (with both rigs) are a Pedaltrain board in a soft case (A PT pro for the big rig and a PT 2 for the smaller one). I have a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ supplying power for each setup. And both rigs each have a Sonic Research Turbo Tuner. I really dig the Turbo Tuner for a number of reasons but it is really most important because I can program the tuning offsets for the Buzz Feiten intonation system that both Suhrs I own have. They took a little getting used to since they are super accurate but the display can be confusing to a first time user. The ultimate would be if they came out with something more along the lines of TC Electronics Polytune. Or if the Polytune could do the Feiten offsets.
The first pedal that effects my sound in the bigger board is a Fulltone Clyde Standard wah pedal. I need it for the cover gigs but I don't have one in my smaller pedalboard since its not a sound I use for my original music or the blues gigs.
After that, the pedals go in order of gain...dirtiest pedals first and cleaner boosts later. That way I can boost a solo regardless of the amount of gain that a rhythm guitar sound has. The only exception to this is my compressor, which is right after the wah pedal. I like it earlier in the signal path although I don't use it with heavy distortion sounds.
After the pedals that affect the amount of gain or distortion or drive or whatever you want to call it we get into my time based effects. Typically I have things like chorus and Phasers first, delays next and last in the signal path is my reverb if I have one. To me that is the most natural order of pedals but the reality is that there is no correct way to order your effects...some folks have their clean boost after everything. Other folks use EQ pedals as boosts. In a little bit I'm going to post about using loops in your pedalboard and how one of my rigs is run that way and the other (so far) is not.
