New to pedals

[Clark Westfield]

When building a pedal board, do you put your pedal tuner at the beginning or end of the effect chain?

 

[Clark Westfield]

Sorry just figured it out

 

[theunknowndude]

Sorry just figured it out

There is no hard and fast rule. I’ve seen lots of either way but prefer mine up front to tune / kill switch easier (but won’t stop a delay or reverb pedal lasted in the chain oscillating etc)

 

[Wretched Banana]

I mean, I've seen it all over the place in the pics posted here and I'd like to understand myself why some folks put it smack in the middle of the chain.

First in chain makes the most sense for easy tuning without switching off every other pedal, esp during a performance... but I heard people argue for last in chain too, apparently some like their kill switch at the end in case anything on the path fails and makes horrible noises. I don't think it's a very strong argument, optimizing for a rare failure case, but still...

 

[CMallett]

First in the chain with a tuner which also has a great signal buffer.