Octaver

[BASSCELL]

Hey guys I recently bought an octabass pedal but I'm not sure where to put it in my chain of FXs I have various envelop filters some distortions a compressor and a tuner. I have my tuner first then the envelope filters, followed by the distortions and I thought it was a good idea to put the octabass after the distortions.

Was it a good idea?
Any suggestions?
what's the traditional way to do it?




Thanks in advance for your help

[cybersnyder]

Usually you want the octave early in your chain to let it see as clean of a signal as possible to avoid glitching. I would do:

tuner->octave->envelope->compressor->distortion

[BASSCELL]

Thanks I appreciate it

[Jared Lash]

You'll actually get the best tracking with the compressor in front of the octaver. Of course, running a compressor in front of a filter will make is less responsive to your playing dynamics due to the compression.

That said, the most common setup would likely be octaver, filter, compressor. Whether the compressor is before or after the distortion is up to you. Some like compression at the end of their chain. I personally like it after dirt but before modulation. But then I also don't usually have my compressor on at the same time as a distortion or fuzz.

All IME and the key is really just to experiment and see what works for you.