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Order of Pedals on a Pedalboard
I want to construct a pedal board for my acoustic guitar. What order should the following pedals be in.
Boss tuner LR Baggs Para DI Boss tremolo pedal Boss DM-3 Delay Boss CH-3 chorus pedal. Thank you, Michael |
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There is no "correct" order (you can get some cool tones by being creative!) but a rule of thumb for pedal order is:
1. Tuner 2. Preamp (and/or other drive, saturation or distortion) 3. Modulation (chorus/flange/wah/tremolo) 4. Time-based effects like reverb and delay For your pedals, I'd go tuner > preamp, but you can experiment with the last three for the sound you want. Do you want the tremolo'ed sound to be repeated with the delay, or the delayed sound to be tremolo'ed? Chorus the tremolo or tremolo the chorus? That part is up to you. |
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Tuner -> Padi, TRS effects loop out to delay, tremolo, chorus, back into TRS effects loop. FYI, a TRS (stereo) 1/4" Y cable to dual TS (mono) 1/4" cable is necessary. The tip mono is usually the send [which goes into the first effect pedal] and the ring is the return [which comes out of the last effect pedal] .
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I'd place everything in the loop including the tuner. This way your guitar pickup sees the input impedance of the para DI which I believe is 1M ohm.
If you are using the XLR output of the para DI, you could use the 1/4" output Jack for the tuner. In this mode the tuner will not mute the output.
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By the way, if you are looking for the finest cable for the Para DI effects loop, EBS makes one with flat cable and their small profile gold connectors. In the US they are available from Sweetwater.
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The input-Z of the Baggs Para-DI is 10M, which is why it’s not a good pre for K&Ks (which like 1M).
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