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  • May 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm #78319
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    so i’m considering purchasing a Black Finger for use with both electric guitar and electric bass and wanted to see what people’s recommendations would be for it in my pedal chain.

    my set up follows this general order:

    – one or two distortion or fuzz pedals (run through an aby box so i can run one or the other or both in parallel)
    – EHX LPB-2ube (both channels daisy chained for general warmth and light overdrive when needed)
    – looping pedal (Line6 DL4)
    – stereo delay (Boss DD7)
    – stereo reverb (Boss RV5)

    wondering if i should put the BF before the dirt pedals, between them and the LPB-2UBE, just after the LBP-2UBE or somewhere else altogether..

    and do you have different recommendations for guitar or bass?

    FWIW: i play experimental/melodic “rock” that often veers into doom and black metal territory (odd mix, i know)…

    May 30, 2009 at 4:31 am #97168
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    Most guys typically place compression near the start of the chain; but in my case, I place the compressor after any pedal that I want to smooth out. For example, I like compression placed after the Qtron+, the Crying Tone Wah, and the Micro Synthesizer.

    I don’t really like to use compression with dirt, because most dirt pedals already compress the signal sufficiently, like the Big Muff Pi. However, if I did use it with dirt, boost, or overdrive, I would want it before those pedals; unless I was trying to level out their volumes, or squash the dynamics.

    As a general rule, I usually place compression before modulation, tremelo, delay, and reverb.

    May 30, 2009 at 7:42 am #97170
    freshchops
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    I’d consider and just plan on putting it in front of all of those.

    It can sometimes be beneficial to put it behind other pedals that can add significant volume, especially for certain pedals that you might want to add volume / gain to get to the sound you want…… like fuzz or drive pedals. This way you can tweek the pre and post levels on the B.F. and get the signal closer to it’s true volume after you’ve pushed it with drive pedals. There is other ways of doing this too (I use mic tube pre’s), but the black finger could work all the same.

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