All ehx pedal board. How would you set up your pedal chain?

[D blow]

So I have been on the pedal quest for a few years, I play majority of Grateful Dead , the band , Neil young tunes / but mostly dead.

So this is my current board set up. As you can see I am all about ehx as I’ve found them to be good quality with outstanding customer service and great product lines.

I have tried varying orders and chain positions but I am wanting to know what you good people would do with the given pedals on my board.

I think I’m close to being where I need to be but the tone corset and lpb-1 placement I haven’t landed on a permanent position yet.

I know this thread is beat to death and I hate to even ask but I know I’ve invested time / time and time and some money and I could use a push to the end of my tonal chase with your kind suggestions …. I may be asking a a question that has no answer.

I do appreciate your time and consideration in the matter .

I have never used an “effects” loop although my guitar is equipped with a on board effects loop much like Garcia’s .

Playing a phred instruments dead bolt ( triple dimarzio super 2 pickups) coil split. Into a crate vintage club50 or peavey 6505+ Both all tube

Guitar – then hub bub for obel equipped guitar- send to

Qtron –
Pog2
Tone corset
Soul food
Od glove
Hot tubes
Lpb-1
Electric mistress
Worm
Canyon
Memory toy
Holystain
Cathedral
720 looper
Return on hubbub
– amp port on hub

I hope this is coherent …. again thank you for your time

[gvelasco]

Bass 9 – I think of this as unplugging my guitar and swapping it for a bass so I put it right at the front as if it were an instrument plugged into the pedalboard.

Rivera Buf1 – Good buffering of a long effects chain is essential to prevent high end signal loss. This is my only non-EHX pedal and it really helps to keep the signal sounding clean by the time it goes through all that cable and effects.

Hum Debugger – Does a great job of managing noise when I’m using single coils.

Silencer – I put almost everything else before the time based stuff in the Silencer loop. I carefully set it with the blend and attack so that it’s not too aggressive. Combined with the Hum Debugger it actually keeps the whole thing pretty quiet even when I have lots of effects engaged.

-> Silencer loop send ->
Knockout – It’s like being able to morph humbuckers into singles or vice verse. So, I treat it like I would adding harmonics or removing them before I go into everything else. Like an active EQ on my guitar or bass.

Attack Decay – This has to go before a compressor because it has a built in compressor and controls the volume itself.

Tone Corset – Input volume control and filtering at the beginning.

Doctor Q – Filters at the beginning of the like you. Some people like the sound of a wah (or auto wah) after distortion. I like it in front of the distortion.

Octave Multiplexer – Filtering and analog octave down.

Pitchfork – More pitch stuff. Digital this time. Again, I like it before dirt.

Frequency Analyzer – Ring Mod is a type of filter / pitch thing.

Deluxe Electric Mistress – Flanger. More filtering. I like it before dirt.

Bad Stone – More filtering. 6 stage phase shifter.

Small Stone – 4 stage phase shifter.

Good Vibes – Univibe 3 stage phase (sort of) phase shifter.

Mod 11 – Digital mod.

Cock Fight Plus – Wah after filters. Before dirt.

(Dirt time! I kind of go low gain to high gain.)
Lumberjack
Octavix
Soul Food – I keep the buffer enabled to clean up the line.
OD Glove – I run it at 18V for more headroom.
Satisfaction
East River Drive
Germanium 4 Big Muff
Hot Wax
Flatiron
Triangle Big Muff
Tone Tattoo

EHX Volume Pedal – Volume AFTER dirt so that the distortion will respond to my picking not my foot.

-> Silencer Loop Return ->

Canyon – Delay…delay…delay

Oceans 11 – Reverbbbbb. I like to verb my delay. Some people like to delay their verb.

Superego+ (with EHX Expression) – This lets me do some filtering AFTER dirt if I really want to.

Stereo Pulsar – Close to the end so that I can split the signal. This is one of my few stereo pedals. If I didn’t have the Mod 11 and didn’t care about stereo, I would put this before my delay.

Stereo Looper 720 – At the very end so that I can capture the completely effected signal in a loop.

This seems similar to what you have. Filtering first. Compression. Then Dirt. You seem to like your mod after your distortion. That’s definitely a matter of taste. Then your time based stuff. Some people like to delay their reverb. I like to reverb my delay like you. Then, finally the looper to catch all that goodness.

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