Does it matter what order I plug them into each other? I am obviously plugging my bass into the right of the digital multi fx and the amp on to the left of the tuner does that make a difference? Sorry for the noobness of this and the dire state of my pedal collection.
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Does it matter what order I plug them into each other? I am obviously plugging my bass into the right of the digital multi fx and the amp on to the left of the tuner does that make a difference? Sorry for the noobness of this and the dire state of my pedal collection.
Try em any which way, might find some cool sounds. Although, I do try to keep my tuner close to the beginning if possible.
Tuner first. Send the cleanest signal to the tuner.
After that, well... Play around! There's a basic pedal order, well, "theory," I guess you'd call it, (tuner-comp-pitch-drive/dist/fuzz-mod-time), but moving things around trying things out can produce some beautiful soundscapes that you might be into.
Have fun!
After that, well... Play around! There's a basic pedal order, well, "theory," I guess you'd call it, (tuner-comp-pitch-drive/dist/fuzz-mod-time), but moving things around trying things out can produce some beautiful soundscapes that you might be into.
Have fun!
Seems to me that a tuner would benefit from being after a compressor and before anything else depending on how the compressor was set.
...And assuming the compressor was first in the signal chain.
Would give it a more even signal level and help it track notes a bit longer.
Not that that has aything to do with the OP. I don't even use pedal tuners myself, but that seems logical to me.
That's an interesting idea, never thought about that. I don't have a compressor to try it. I'm curious if anyone else has done that and what their results were.
Tuner first unless you want to use it last as a mute switch. Then pick which multi that you're going to use ambient / reverb type effects the most and put it after the other.
It kind of depends on what you will be using each pedal for. I prefer a tuner last so I can use it as a mute and kill any pedal sound between sets. I just have to remember to turn off effects in front of it before I tune. I run a compressor after my preamp and it seems to retain my preamps more natural sound and leave me some dynamics. Modulation, distortion and time effects go in the order that I prefer they affect one another. For instance, wah sounds way different before distortion than it does after. So it'll take some time and listening to what you like and which multi effects you are going to primarily run. That only leaves you with tons of options. Biggest mistake I made early on was setting up everything because it was the way I thought it should be and not by the way it sounded and was useful to me. Have fun!
Sure! why not? As long as the tuner is given something clean to tune. I think a note going straight into a tuner lasts plenty long enough to be tuned properly without having to rely on a compressor, but to each their own. Also, I don't use a compressor, so the question is basically moot for me at this time.
Reminds me of way back when in my DJ days. Had a buddy that also DJ'd. The back side of his amp had alot of rca jacks on it and faced the crowd, so he would fill them up with rca cables just to make it look cool. I told him once that you know, if you press that there switch that changes the input, your gonna have a lot of noise and maybe some smoke. Oh the things we thing of.
Cool! Smoke show! He should charge extra for the pyrotechnics-smoke-lightshow.
At the OP... Yes, any order. Listen, if it sounds good, it is good.
