how would you advice I stack my pedals?

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My pedalboard is almost ready, I only need a delay (which I THINK will be a TC Flashback) and pedalpower/Supa Charger.

I have:

OD:
Transparent OD
BB Preamp
Boss FBM-1 (Bassman Pedal)

Compressor:
Keeley

Fuzz:
Keeley Fuzzhead

Boost:
Keeley Katana

Dunlop Original Wah

Delay (pending)
TC Flashback

Reverb (Pending)
Probably a 63" Fender Reverb Boss Pedal

EQ
Boss GE-7

Korg Tuner

How should I stack them to get the best sound?


The amp will be a Ceriatone Overtone Special HRM Bluesmaster which has a Loop btw.
 
To stack your dirt boxes? I dont know the boss at all so Ill leave it out of my recommendation...

BB >> TOD >> Fuzzhead. I put the Fuzz last cause they sound killer with a little push behind them. Not too much though.
 
so that's Guitar > BB > TOD > FUZZ right?

how about the Delay/ boost/ Reverb etc.... in case I wanna run them all in front of the amp (I have a fender combo with no Loop too that'd use the pedal board with.)
 
Joeytpg":1pfb5khn said:
My pedalboard is almost ready, I only need a delay (which I THINK will be a TC Flashback) and pedalpower/Supa Charger.

I have:

OD:
Transparent OD
BB Preamp
Boss FBM-1 (Bassman Pedal)

Compressor:
Keeley

Fuzz:
Keeley Fuzzhead

Boost:
Keeley Katana

Dunlop Original Wah

Delay (pending)
TC Flashback

Reverb (Pending)
Probably a 63" Fender Reverb Boss Pedal

EQ
Boss GE-7

Korg Tuner

How should I stack them to get the best sound?


The amp will be a Ceriatone Overtone Special HRM Bluesmaster which has a Loop btw.

I would plug em all into the front of the amp unless you have a buffered loop box and something like this

guitar --> wah / keeley comp -Boost - Fuzz/OD section - EQ - Reverb - Delay - korg tuner - front of amp

finding a good stacked OD sound takes a while, a bypass loop switcher can be handy as well as your signal chain is more flexible , unless you really need/use the EQ pedal i'd take it out tbh

i would put the tuner first usually as i usually pop loops/ambient stuff while i tune up, but with that many pedals in series, having a global mute at the end of your chain might be handy
 
Id run all that after the ODs and fuzz cept the comp. Id run the comp first always. I personally dont like the sound of delays and reverb going fuzz and OD pedals.

If it were me, Id set the BB up for a nice medium gain or crunch sound. Set the TOD up as a boost with a little gain. Or even a touch of gain so you can leave it on all the time. Kinda like the base or platform for your tone.

Another cool way to go would be guitar >> TOD >> Fuzz >> BB >> the other stuff
TOD set as a clean boost to drive the fuzz into a dirty BB would be very cool for thick lead stuff.

Fuzz rules. Theres soo many great ways to use it
Joeytpg":1ptejbir said:
so that's Guitar > BB > TOD > FUZZ right?

how about the Delay/ boost/ Reverb etc.... in case I wanna run them all in front of the amp (I have a fender combo with no Loop too that'd use the pedal board with.)
 
university81":2q3vf1ma said:
Joeytpg":2q3vf1ma said:
My pedalboard is almost ready, I only need a delay (which I THINK will be a TC Flashback) and pedalpower/Supa Charger.

I have:

OD:
Transparent OD
BB Preamp
Boss FBM-1 (Bassman Pedal)

Compressor:
Keeley

Fuzz:
Keeley Fuzzhead

Boost:
Keeley Katana

Dunlop Original Wah

Delay (pending)
TC Flashback

Reverb (Pending)
Probably a 63" Fender Reverb Boss Pedal

EQ
Boss GE-7

Korg Tuner

How should I stack them to get the best sound?


The amp will be a Ceriatone Overtone Special HRM Bluesmaster which has a Loop btw.

I would plug em all into the front of the amp unless you have a buffered loop box and something like this

guitar --> wah / keeley comp -Boost - Fuzz/OD section - EQ - Reverb - Delay - korg tuner - front of amp

finding a good stacked OD sound takes a while, a bypass loop switcher can be handy as well as your signal chain is more flexible , unless you really need/use the EQ pedal i'd take it out tbh

i would put the tuner first usually as i usually pop loops/ambient stuff while i tune up, but with that many pedals in series, having a global mute at the end of your chain might be handy

I agree with this but I would put any type of modulation (reverb, chorus, pitch, delay) in the amps loop.
 
awesome. I'm going t give this a try. I was playing with my OD section and the Guitar >> Boss Bassman pedal (which is like a power tube saturation kinda pedal, at least I use it that way, specially for blues tunes) >> TOD >> BB and didn't like it. The TOD muffles the BB and makes it sound dead.
 
Yeah its tuff to get a bunch of ODs to sound good ran into each other and at the same time sound good on their own. Id try to designate one pedal as your stacking base or the one pedal you stack eveything else into.

The Maxon OD808 and the Catalinbread Dirty little secret are 2 of the best ODs I can think of for that purpose.
 
well I honestly don't need to stack em...I was just trying....I don't play with much gain at all, I have dif. ODs for different tones and feel. the TOD has that TS9 kinda vibe, the BB is just a great low mid gain compressed tone, and the Bassman like I said does the blues overdriven tubes perfectly well, so I don't need anything more.

The Ceriatone OTS has a pretty "gainy" OD channel, not hard rock gainy but like a BB preamp on steroids, which I will also use if I need to.
 
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