Orange Crush <- Grand Canyon <- (Output) Silencer (Input) <- (Y) Switchblade (A, <- LP & V Guitars Your Silencer Effects Loop:
Silencer (Return) <- EHX Volume Expression <- Neo Clone <- Big Muff Pi <- Cock Fight Plus Wah <- Silencer (Send) This configureation will allow you to switch between your two gutars without having to unplug/plug them with the Switchblade. It’s best to put your time based effects (delay, reverb, loopers) outside of your gated stuff, like noise gates, and after your expression pedals. It’s good to put everything that might make noise in the gated effects loop of your Silencer. Basically put everything but your time based effects in the gated effects loop. Play with the RELEASE and REDUCTION knobs to make the gating sound as natural as possible. Some people like the sound of a wah after the Big Muff and some like it before. Most blues/rock/grunge types like it before, but you should try it both ways and experiment. Likewise with the Neo Clone chorus, but that’s a pretty subtle effect that can essentially disappear with lots of dirt. That’s why you’ll see it AFTER the fuzz on most Metal, Shoegaze, super high gain setups. Most people prefer their volume pedal after all the modulation, and especially after the fuzz. If you use it before your fuzz, then you’ll be swelling in the gain as well as the volume. If you put it after the fuzz, you’ll be swelling in just the volume of a high gain signal. It could work either way, but I think most people kind of have in mind a volume AFTER the fuzz sound when they’re imagining their setup. The is actually a good argument to be made for TWO volume pedals – one before your dirt and one after. Likewise, you can put your volume after your delay, but then you’re not repeating the swells. You’re just controling the volume of the delay which is a bit weird. I think my diagram is a good starting place. Remember, you’re plugging in stuff from right to left. Anything you don’t have yet, just leave it out of the diagram, but keep the other things in this order.