https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:16:38 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362435 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:20:27 +0000
Geoo]]> Guitar Players Discussion geoo https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362435 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362432 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:05:07 +0000
Personally, you've got so many darn knobs in this chain, I'd never be able to remember how I wanted them all set. But we're all different. (I'm sort of a gear head, but not so much pedals. Though I've got a fair few!)

Something else I'll put up here for newbs, or anybody else it's useful to: Virtually all pedals start to sound bad when their batteries are going dead. So if your pedal chain isn't sounding like it used to, that's something to check.

All the best,
Ande]]> Guitar Players Discussion Ande https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362432 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362419 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:16:56 +0000
I've used most of these pedals a good LONG time and I understand the noises they make. Also, I understand that many guitarists do not like playing through a good deal of pedals.. but I am a pedal-head.. and I LOVE them.. I want MORE. Thats not to say that I dont just love sitting down and playing a clean acoustic guitar... but I LOVE pedals.

The suppressor is at the end because it kills the hiss I get when I hit my amps boost switch.. its a RATHER loud hiss and distracting when they are praying. Seems to work well there. I can go from silent to OMG instantly.

Geoo]]> Guitar Players Discussion geoo https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362419 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362417 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:05:49 +0000 Pedals are like crayons. Once you mix a certain number of "colors" together, you get mud brown. Nice comparison :)

I only use one or two pedals and usually I only play with the cable so I can not help with the interactions between pedals. The Moonrider's comment sounds good to me.

PS. Crow, I am having a lot of fun with that delay. Cool pedal!]]> Guitar Players Discussion Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362417 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362398 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:58:28 +0000
Recently I spent a couple of weeks auditioning my stomp boxes individually, then in pairs, then in threes, to find combinations I preferred. Time-consuming, but you learn your stuff that way. I came up with a versatile, relatively short signal chain -- A/B-ing into two different flavors of dirt, adding some color (E-H Small Stone phaser, Thomas Organ wah) and delay (green MXR analog), then into the amp input. (None of my amps have FX send/return -- too old.)

Then I put the pedals away, b/c I'm just not that into them.

EDIT: Just read this thread, which has great info on how to buffer your signal AND split it properly, with minimal noise and signal loss... which means I may have to unpack all those pedals and try again. :oops:]]> Guitar Players Discussion Crow https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362398 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362392 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:11:50 +0000
I've got a pretty large collection of pedals ( some are vintage that I bought new! ), but when you look at my pedal board you normally see a tuner and 4 single-purpose pedals. They are, in order:

tuner
compressor (normally a Boss CS-3, sometimes replaced by the "tain" half of a Maestro Fuzztain)
dirt (rotates between a Bad Monkey OD, 1980 pre-LED MXR Distortion+, and Maestro Fuzztain)
delay (currently an Ibanez AD-9)
tremolo (Behringer Ultra Tremolo - best reproduction of the Kustom tuck & roll amp trems ever)]]> Guitar Players Discussion Moonrider https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362392 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362386 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:28:37 +0000
The problem is that in the music I do, I need my delay. I'll always need distortion and a clean sound. Chorus sound great on some of the slower songs that we do.. I use WAH very rarely.. but I do use them..

Well see what happens this morning. Its easier to fiddle with the knobs when I dont have to worry about the confined space in my house.

Jim]]> Guitar Players Discussion geoo https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362386 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362376 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:12:15 +0000
My impulse is to tell you to "start over." Play with the guitar and the amp- get as close to the sounds you want as you can, and then add pedals sparingly. Get to know each pedal by itself, playing just with each one and the amp. Don't add one pedal to the three you were already using- when you want to add on, use it by itself until you really know what each little knob does to your sound.

It's a funny thing. I own, and enjoy, and sometimes play with, a considerable number of effects units, including amp modelers. In gigs, I use...the overdrive and EQ on the amp. (And all the controls on my guitar.) Nothing else.

It sounds counter intuitive, but I've always felt that you want to mess with your signal as little as you can and stilll get the sounds you want. The more you add, the more artificial and muddy it becomes.

Best,
Ande]]> Guitar Players Discussion Ande https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362376 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362371 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:03:15 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion geoo https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362371 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362370 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:14:08 +0000
Pedals are like crayons. Once you mix a certain number of "colors" together, you get mud brown.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Moonrider https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/knob-control/#post-362370