Guitar

---

---

Compressor Guitar Pedal

---

---

I need help with my guitar pedal chain?

---

---

Ok I just got all my new pedals for my board and I need to know the EXACT order that they need to go in. I have a Jekyll and Hyde, crybaby wah, ernieball volume, boss dd5, Fs-5u tap tempo, isp decimator, line 6 dl4, bbe sonic maximizer, z vex tap a whirl, z vex super hard on, boss tu 2, and a keely compressor. Someone please help Im stumped on what order they should go in.

The first two pedals should absolutely, no questions asked, no room for discussion, be your tuner and your compressor. Neither will function correctly or as well if they are anywhere else in your signal chain. Look up what a compressor does - you'll understand why it should come before modulation effects, delays, and definitely distortion.

The sonic maximizer should go in your amp's effect loop for maximum effect. Putting it in front of the amp will dull it's effect, since the amp's gain stages will offset most of the sparkle the maximizer adds.

Beyond that... dear god, that's a lot of crap. I mean, stuff. First off, I would ask if you need all of it at the same time. Can you get by with using the dd5 or the dl4, and not both? Do you really need a volume pedal and a wah pedal? The reason that I ask is that you most likely don't have a buffered output on your guitar, and I don't see any buffer pedals in your collection. That means a high impedance signal out of your guitar, which means more pedals = more tone suckage.

You can offset this by installing a buffer in your guitar or getting a buffer circuit and putting it at the beginning of your pedal board. Boss pedals are buffered, so that will help, but some of these aren't, and for every pedal that isn't, you're losing tone when they're not on. How many distortion pedals do you really need? The decimator is cool, but how often will you use it?

Play around a lot, expiriment plenty, but try to decide if there's a way to pare down your pedal board to a smaller size - that's a lot of batteries, or a lot of power supplies, both of which mean more complexity and more stuff to worry about. When playing live, that's something you don't want - more complexity means more things that can go wrong.

You've got a lot to work with, and having options is certain a lot better than not having any - but there's something to be said for keeping it simple.

Well, if I was you, considering the type of music that I play (progressive-y with both melodic, aggressive, clean, and dirty elements to it) this would be my signal chain:

Boss tu2 - keely compressor - jekyll/hyde - dd5 w/tap tempo - crybaby wah - super hard on w/ sonic maximizer in the fx loop

Tuner so I can tune, compressor to keep a non-noisy tone compressed, the jekyll/hyde for rhythm distortion if I need it, a tap delay, a wah, and a booster pedal for solos. I would personally prefer to have a modulation effect after the tap delay, like a boss chorus. I wouldn't use any of the rest of it, so why have it in my signal chain, sucking my tone?

I could even drop the compressor and jekyll/hyde, because my guitar gives decent tone already and I play through a mesa/boogie, so I'm pretty well covered for distortion.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents.

Saul

Police Report for March 4

---

---

Published: Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7:49 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7:49 p.m. A 42-inch television, 32-inch television, PlayStation and games, laptop and a cell phone were taken from a residence on Manor Street between 7:20 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. March 2.
Wampler Pedals "Ego Compressor" guitar pedal

---

---