New to octave, filter, fuzz, delay, chorus

[deadwtxsky]

what do I need to do? what order should I put them in? I don't know anything about compressors or limiters. Am I going to have to tweak each pedal for every song!? I love you.

[Kobaia]

from what i've gathered,
Octave, Fuzz, Filter, Chorus, Delay would be your best bet.

play with it for a while and see what order you like best

[bassbrad]

Switch the delay after the chorus and you have a good starting place. A lot depends on your particular pedals and how they react to each other: the fuzz, filter and octave will all act differently depending on the order you place them when used in combination.

[Jared Lash]

I do think Octave--> Fuzz --> Filter --> Chorus --> Delay is a good starting point but all that really matters is what sounds best to you. My "chorus" (detune really) is built into my octaver so it goes first in the chain, and I've been running my delay before my filter for my purposes so there's lots of room to experiment.

A compressor (a limiter is just a compressor with a high ratio and ideally a fast attack) can be thought of as a volume adjuster. It takes any notes over a certain threshold volume and reduces them by a ratio (2:1, 4:1 etc). Because this lowers your average volume, the compressor will have a knob to turn everything up a bit. The overall effect is that your loud notes aren't quite as loud and your quiet notes are a bit louder. This gives an "evenness" to the sound. Depending on the compressor and application this can make the sound more "fat" or "punchy".

Compressors can be used to sweeten the tone, even the dynamics, used extremely as an effect or (as I often do) to control volume spikes from pedals like envelope filters. It's a tool like anything else and can be used well, used badly or not used at all.

As for knob twiddling, that's up to you. Many guys find one setting they like and rock that all night. Others tweak between every song or even mid song. Again, do what works for you.

And I think it's too soon in our relationship for you to tell me you love me. Just comes off as a bit desperate. Let's just take it slow and see how things go.

[g_familia]

the best is to just experiment with them and the songs you play and find the order that works best for the majority of your lines. but, i tend to use this order: filter(synth) - octave - fuzz - delay - chorus
i used to have the fuzz before the octave, but in the end it was beefier with the octave before the fuzz.
have fun!

[Joe Gress]

Yes, use them all together.

Definitely stick the filter and octaver first on the signal chain to help with tracking. The delay (to me) should be last as its a time based effect, and you want all your effects to sound in sync with each other. Stick the fuzz right before the delay, and the chours right before that. The Fuzz this way won't overload all the other effects but instead just fuzzify them.

IMO

[jumbo_steelie]

What Jared said.....

[deadwtxsky]

Thanks guys. LOL Jared.