Guitar Pedals - that which makes an electric guitar sounds awesome and helps keep the inspiration high… on a board.

About me

I don’t “gig”.

I’m not in a band.

I play at home with neighbors in close proximity.

A clean sound is the most uninspiring tone there is.

Other than pedal gear

Fender Ramparte Amp of which I run on the clean channel around 2. It’s loud even though its only a 9 watt amp, because tubes.

2016 Epiphone Les Paul

Pedals

In signal chain order (starts in top right):

Power

(top row second from left)

Initially I daisy chained the power. Don’t daisy chain the power as you’ll get a lot of hum. To test if isolated power will help run your pedals off batteries. If you like what you hear get an isolated power supply because batteries suck. I use the BBE Supa-Charger. For an explanation see the JHS site.

The rest

Fuzz first. It won’t work any other way.

My compressor is towards the end. Some say it should be at the front. With the compressor at the end I can use it as a volume control. I can then use the volume on my guitar to increase the grit added by the Angry Charlie in this configuration without affecting the overall volume.

If playing quiet isolated power is a must to reduce the hum. See the above details.

Fuzz is the best effect there is. Just ask Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins.

One downside when using the looper (i.e. Alter Ego v4) reverb will be applied to all signals since it’s after the looper. I use minimal reverb so it doesn’t impact me much but if wanting a difference between rythm and lead reverb it would be problematic when looping.

Everything I know about pedals comes from That Pedal Show. It’s a show on youtube that is entertaining while explaining pedal concepts in depth. Watch it. Buy a shirt.

Play around. Find your sound.

The board

The board came with velcro of which I haven’t ran out of yet. Velcro’s cheap. To secure the power cables I used electrical tape, twist ties (from bread bags), and zip ties. Nothing fancy.