Understanding Pedal Order 

Exactly what works for me, with a buffer just after the wah.

I'll wire my board in the reverse of this one day just to see what happens...

Yep, but who can possibly resist moving them around and constantly noodling with them :)

@@relevantinformation6655 That's part of the fun!

Idonttex.s0rry

MostlyTorso Thank you for watching and for the kind words!

MostlyTorso I agree. Mitch G. is seriously knowledgeable. Read his book, In Search of Tone.

agree..101%

That's SweetWater for you !

@@sweetwater hi guys. Where should you put your volume pedal if you want to use it to make dynamic changes from say high gain to clean but you don't want to do it abruptly by hitting in chanel switch or clicking the distortion on/ off. Sort of like Adam Jones does it as just one example. He uses it to go from gain to clean and back without that sudden switch. Also to be able to use it for volume swells because controlling that with the guitar knob is not easy. Thanks

True, it really depends on what your demands are, but for studio use, you're probably going to go with a pretty conventional setup.

If it sounds right it is right. That's really the main rule.

8!

I have 9 pedals.

362,880 possible combinations, or 9 factorial.

the math is pretty simple

Dammit man I'm a guitarist not a mathematician!

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Obviously...and first...and in the middle. Stacked Mikus are the next logical step. Thanks for the excellent video.

What do you mean by chain? You only need one pedal if you have a Miku.

Nathan Palmer not if you’re stacking multiple miku’s🤤

@Bill Primo the Joke Your head

@@michaelmiller7909 But of course, for those of us who DIDN'T know beforehand what a Miku pedal was, Bill's comment was the only one with any usefulness.

Great response! What order did you place your pedals in? I had to stop playing guitar for a minute (5 years), and have just recently begun playing every day. I dug out my pedal board, and noticed that a few were missing (In the "pedal hospital")- and now repaired, but I failed to leave a note where those pedals resided, plus, I just added the EHX Slammi, so, please share what you wound up with, ok? Thanks!

I also had a long period of time (1989 - 2015) when I didn't play guitar (marriage & 3 kids will do that), and I couldn't afford pedals when I was younger. So when I started playing again in 2016, the world of effects pedals was very new to me. Even though I think my pedal board could still use some tweaking, I think I've got it sounding pretty decent now. Here's my setup: Guitar-->BOSS Noise Suppressor NS2-->VOX Wah-->BOSS Super Overdrive SD1-->BOSS Distortion DS1--> BOSS Mega Distortion MD2-->front of Marshall tube amp head (the 4 BOSS pedals are in the Send/Return loop of the Noise Suppressor since I've been told that 'noisy' pedals belong in this loop) FX Loop Send-->BOSS EQ GE7-->BOSS Super Chorus CH1-->BOSS Digital Delay DS3-->FX Loop Return I'll eventually remove the Mega Distortion pedal because I just don't like how it sounds, as well as the Wah pedal which I never use anymore. I'll also add a few more pedals to the FX loop such as BOSS Reverb & BOSS Harmonist Pitch Shifter. Will also add a Compression Sustainer, but can't remember if it goes in front of the amp or in the FX loop.

Tip - try dropping a few of those Boss pedals & dropping in a few direct bypass units. Boss are great don't get me wrong, on & off I've used them & other buffered bypass pedals that are very similar for ages. Like yourself I recently got back into playing after years of not touching a guitar. I built a pedal rig entirely of Boss pedals or faithful clones of them & it sounded good. However in the last few months I took some of them out & dropped some true bypass units in where they were & the improvement in tone was incredible.

Joshua Harrison start off with a couple of pedals and get familiar

Maybe if you think about this this way: are you delaying your distortion or distorting your delay? And then, plug your pedals in one and then the other order.

Hope you figured it out! There is no right way, just what sounds good to you.

@@MauFerrusca The entire video summed up in one statement; thank you 🙏

Another note: the effects loop is only relevant to use if you are using gain from your amplifier.