Order of pedal chain help!!

[cire113]

Ok I have a loop station, envelope filter, distorition. chorus, octave, pedals..

what is the most standard order for these??

I realize its different but what is the general rule of thumb??

Im always confused about the order so please be specific about whether it connects to the amp or guitar first...

So in the chain the pedal furtherest to the left would connect to the amp..

Right now my order is amp <-Looper, chorus, distorition , evenlope, octave ->bass

[alec]

I would be of a mind to run the distortion into the filter but as with any effects order, its just down to personal taste.

[loopmantra]

time based efx goes last in chain,compression and tuner goes first,or nearest possible.in your case I would say-looper/octave/distortion/envelope/chorus.that's what I would do

[Kwesi]

Personally, I'd run it like this:

bass --> octave --> distortion --> filter --> chorus --> loop station --> amp

That's how I have my board setup though without the chorus because I don't have one yet.

[Kwesi]

The best way to think of ordering your effects in in layers. What do you want to happen to your sound? When I was making my board I wanted a synth. To me a synth sounds like a fuzzy octave being filtered (octave --> fuzz --> filter) not a fuzzy octave laid over a filter (filter --> octave -- fuzz). Why do I but the octave first? Because I wan't the cleanest possible octave I can get to be acted on by other effects. Reverb goes at the very end because you want that to affect your entire signal.The very end of the chain should go: delay --> modulation --> reverb. You want the delay to act on everything before modulation so that modulating effects like tremelo, flangers and phasers are essentially blankets over your tone. They take everything you've done so far and add a layer over top. That's how I look at it.