Optimize my fx chain?

[doommeow]

For me I find that certain things work for my chain and for my taste. I agree. No right way. Except if you put compression somewhere weird. I think that shit needs to be at the front.

Define weird.

I'm currently rebuilding my board and really digging cathedral > philosopher king...

[Jwar]

Well for me it literally killed my effects that were before it. So maybe it's just the kind I used? It was on my H9.

I admittedly know very little about compressors and never want to use them. So take what I said with a grain of salt.

[cedarskies]

i prefer compressors towards the end

but i also don't have much gain going on before it and tend to use compression as an always-on effect

[goroth]

I'm redoing my board and I started by making a list of all the sounds I want to make. The list is comprised of existing pedal combinations I know I like, but also stuff I hear in songs and would like to be able to do. I write s reference to the song then make my best guess at how to get that dound combining existing and future pedals. I then have used that list to work out what order to do things in so that as many sounds as possible are um... possible.

[fcknoise]

Also, to add to my cathedral predirt suggestion. Some post-reverb distortion suggestions is something like a fuzzy distortion. The ones I like best behind my cathedral are the marshall shredmaster and the boss HM-2. Also overdrives work well for this, the one I've tried and got good results with is a Barber LTD SR, but anything in the lines of "transparent overdrive" would most likely work. I made a kinda crappy comparison (HM-2 vs RAT) video a while ago that might be of interest for this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpQ-gj_dvOU[/youtube]

Also this quote from the Aen article is the best guitar-related quote I've ever seen "If I had a dollar for every time I thought, “Gee whiz, that guitarist needs more treble,” I would have negative one billion dollars."

[rfurtkamp]

My question is always "what order did you use as you only had one or two, and added stuff?" - did you just end up with a pile of pedals one day with no time to test their interactions on a one-on-one basis?

You've only got a few variables, just start swapping stuff around and note what works.

It's not like you're using 30 units here.

[kbit]

^yeah I'd definitely note which 2-3 pedal combis you like and see if can arrange your board to get the highest amount of those combos possible.

Also how are you using the pitch factor? I know it does some pretty delay like stuff which could change what you're doing with your chain.

With what you've got I would probably try this order first:

Phase 90
SMMH
Biscuit
Flange
Pitch
Cathedral

[GardenoftheDead]

Guitar->Pitchfactor->Oto Biscuit->Phase 90->Flanger->SMMw/H->Cathedral->Amp

Granted I've never used or heard an Oto Biscuit so I'm just guessing based on a description.

[RumoRazzi]

Now I'm fine with this chain:
phase>flange>biscuit>smmh>cathedral. I'm still waiting for the Pitchfactor but I think that I will put it at the beginning of the chain. All these pedals are in the amp's fx loop. I'm savin' in order to add some dirt to put beetween guitar and amp. I like the DOD overdrive reissue, then I have an old Montarbo fuzz that need some clean and repair.