I'm not 100% familiar with all of these pedals but I'll do my best for you...
I'm not sure other than the boss which of these have an always on buffer and which are true bypass, but make sure that regardless of what I write, you need to put something with a GOOD buffer as the very first pedal. I read a tip from some guy who was a guru of pedal boards and the simple little boss pedals even when in bypass have a great buffer, so I tried it out and outta the 3 boss pedals I have they all have a different tonal buffer quality, I actually preferred the voicing of the super chorus more than the tuner or the compressor, so mess with that when tweaking your final setup. Another good way of looking at your pedal board is to think of your pedals and cables as another EQ for your rig, depending on which your using and the order you put them in you can really make a decent impact on your over all tone, hopefully that makes sense.
Ok, assuming your tuner has a decent buffer (if not again something with a good one needs to go in the front) oh and if it's not clear what a buffer is, it's a pedal that increases the impedance of your guitar cables signal, through the course of many pedals and all the cables etc. you loose a bit of signal and it takes away from the natural tone of your guitar, the longer it goes the weaker it gets and a buffer helps to resolve this, and depending on how many pedals it's sometimes advantageous to have a buffer ever few pedals or cable length etc.)
Planet Waves Tuner
ISP Decimator
Boss Loop Station
Boss Flanger
Boss Chorus
Boss SD1
Ibanez Phaser
Ibanez Delay
Snarling Dog Wah
Ok so here we go:
If your not using an effects loop my conventional thoughts would be like this;
Planet Waves Tuner > Snarling Dog Wah > Boss SD1 . . . these three I would have this way regardless of anything else again bare in mind make sure your hitting a buffer first again -
Then...
Boss Flanger > Boss Chorus > Ibanez Phaser - run these in no particular order after the SD1, I don't know whether or not it makes any difference running these modulating effects before or after each other but toy with it and figure that bit out to your own tastes.
I'd then run your ISP Decimator next, but I would double check with people who use noise gates because I NEVER use gates, but if I were to run one in the front of my amp, I would want it to stop all the excess noise that is potentially created by the other pedals as well, and this way it leaves your delay at the end amplifying a quieter signal and not worrying about your ISP cutting off little bits of the delay trails.
After that then run your Ibanez Delay at the end, UNLESS you want to put one of the modulating effects after the delay, which IMO isn't unacceptable at all, it's just a different flavor.
As far as the loop station goes, I'd say that's up to you and what kind of a signal you want out of it, do you want it to record all of your effects into the signal or do you want it to be more of a clean direct clone of what your doing. For example, do you want to record it at the end so you could track a wahed out delayed signal with some effects on it, or do you want to be sending a clean signal through all of your effects so you can change that as you feel... the downside to putting it before the wah is it's going to wah everything, if you do it after the wah you'd have to record it in advance in the looper if you want that. etc. etc. But again ask someone who uses this because I don't use loopers, if I were going to set one up I'd want to slave it out to another amp so it wouldn't blend together, if that makes sense?
Nowwww... if you have an effects loop this changes things even further. Depending on the sounds your going for, you can put the delay in the EFX loop or in front, even with the amp I have with an effects loop I like it better upfront, it's just a taste thing. The ISP I hear though is best in the loop pretty much all the time, so if that's an option, by all means put it there, that will be your best bet. The modulation effects are potentially good in the loop as well but this is very subject to taste and may or may not sound better to your ears in the loop or upfront, again I really find I like pretty much all my effects upfront and I don't use a gate, so the loop is nearly out of my thought process.
Another option is to also run tuner out of the chain if you don't mind not having a mute button when you tune, I just turn my guitar really low. Here's the order I run my effects.
Boss Super Chorus (never turned on always in bypass just for buffer) > Main Out to RMC Wizard Wah (true bypass) > 2nd out to a Tuner so it never enters my signal chain > From the RMC Wah > Timmy Pedal (True Bypass) > Line 6 DL4 - that's my entire effects rig, as basic as it sounds it's all I need, I've tried phasers, compressors, tremolos, the chorus, and who knows what else, but all those things are the only ones who have survived the final cut.
Hope this helps, anyone feel free to correct me, chime in and help me out! Also if you have any other questions and I don't respond just pm me I probably forgot to check back.
Merry Christmas!
Dallas
