#881440 - 12/19/99 11:47 PM
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aroe
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is there a right or wrong sequence pedals should be placed in, or is it really just personal preference? ie: distortion type before chorusy flangy type or visa versa .. you get my drift
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#881441 - 12/20/99 01:29 PM
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Mark Amundson
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There is "no rules" in pedal order because each artist may prefer a different blend of effects. I typically segregate pedals in two categories: 1) the overdrive/distortion/fuzz types and 2) the phaser/flanger/chorus/delay/reverb types. If your amp is just a clean sounding link to your effects, the order tends to be arbitrary and strictly based on taste. If you depend on your amp for distortion sounds, you may want to place the overdive/distortion/fuzz pedals at the end of the chain to help "bump-up" the signal levels entering into the amp for maximum flexibility of preamp or power-amp type distortions.
Another important pedal order issue is to make sure the first pedal presents a high impedance loading (1 Meg-ohm) to your guitar's passive electronics (pickups/controls). I personally use a buffer pedal to achieve the impedance matching and to slightly boost the incoming signal for low noise effects processing. Reasonably short (10 foot) guitar cords are also recommended to keep the cable's capacitance from sucking the high's (tone) out of your instrument.
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#881442 - 12/20/99 02:11 PM
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aroe
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thanks alot mark that really helps I had some sort of idea but that just confirmed it!, also what kind of pedals are considered buffer pedals ?
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#881443 - 12/20/99 05:20 PM
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Mark Amundson
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A typical example of a buffer pedal is the MXR Micro-Amp pedal. It just provides a gain boost and a high input impedance. Other pedals can provide high input impedances as well, but you got to read the spec sheets. I use a home-brew buffer pedal before my Ernie Ball volume pedal the drives the balance of my pedal chain. The buffering really brings out the tonal nuances of your instrument pickups.
Most guitar volume/tone controls are either 250k (Fender types) or 500k (Gibson types). So for best matching, you want an amp or pedal input to present at least 1 Meg-ohm to prevent the inputs from further loading the pickups beyond their own controls. Many pedals and solid state amplifiers are notorious for having 470k and below input impedances. High impedances really do have a positive effect on a guitar's tone.
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#881444 - 01/09/00 06:03 AM
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ArinCrumley
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I go out of guitar, into distortion pedal, into volume pedal, into digitech which provides chorus and delay and then I go into amp. What ever you do don't go out into a volume pedal first because then when you hit the distorition pedal not enough voltage will becoming through for it to distort. I also think its bad to take a signal that has heavy reverb and then distorted it because the distortion pedal won't know to distort the attack or the drop off or what, it will just sound crackly. So I always use distortion before anything else, the both live and in studio.
Arin http://www.mp3.com/metagalaxxy
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#881445 - 01/12/00 03:31 PM
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aroe
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hey, thanks guys for all your responses this info sure help to clear up a couple of questions I had, if anyone else has more input by all means...go ahead
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