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[Bruiser Stone]

This could be the easiest (or hardest) question you’ve had all day, and if so,
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I recently bought this Nano board for just the essentials. I’ll be gigging with a variety cover band doing some R&B, blues, country, jazz, and most anything that just needs a clean, solid, full sound supplied with a passive P and flats going through a Genz Benz Shuttle/Uber rig for loud occasions with drums, and a Phil Jones combo for much lighter stuff without. For now, I’m on my own...no PA’s.

The attached photo is my initial feeling about pedal order. Since there are only so many permutations with a board this small, I thought it would make a nifty little poll. If you can supply an explanation with your vote, it would be most appreciated.

 

[Al Kraft]

I would think for most of us the tuner would be first and I always like to have the HPF last to remove any sub-low frequency signal or artifacts introduced anywhere along the way. I would probably try the EQ after the tuner and before the compressor so the comprerssor is acting on the signal as I want it to sound. That said, some EQ and make-up gain after a compessor can be useful on occasion, so I would certainly experiment with the order of the compressor and EQ to see what sounded best to me.

 

[crguti]

I would take out the HPF and add a BDDI.

 

[ga_edwards]

Tuner first for me, simply out of habit.

Comp then eq, so that the compressor receives a consistent signal. Putting the eq before compression and subsequently changing eq setting or simply turning it on/off will change the way the compressor reacts.

hpf, not sure here, depends on what you want to do with it. As a speaker protector, last is as good place as any. To remove low-end rumble however, it may do well to sit before the comp, this way you're not sending unwanted frequencies to the compressor and accentuating them, which again, can change the way the compressor reacts (remember, a compressor reacts more to low frequencies than high).