PEDAL CHAIN GUIDELINES FOR CREATING NEW SOUNDS

Here at MayosMusic, in addition to offering great guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo and autoharp lessons, plus complete luthier services that include guitar, string instrument and amplifier repair/restortions, we are also a great resource service. Furthering our discussion of the “effect pedal chain”, the following are some suggested guidelines for the “pedal chain” set-up, to help the guitarist create and achieve your new sounds.

The following list of “pedal chain” set-ups are indexed by musical styles. Please note the set-up is for the right-handed player who usually prefers the 1st foot pedal on his/her's right side and then connecting each next pedal to the left of the 1st pedal. Here is but a few!!

1. Good Basic Rock Sound:
   AMP ← Chorus ← Digital delay ← Distortion ← Guitar
2. To Gain or Boost Any Style:
   AMP ← Digital Delay ← Distortion ← Overdrive or Fuzz ← Guitar
3. Lead/Solo Switched In:
   AMP ← Digital Delay ← Chorus ← Volume Pedal ← Overdrive ← Compression ← Guitar.
4. Psychedelic Grunge and Classic Fuzz:
   AMP ← Phaser ← Fuzz ← Wah ← Guitar
5. Metal:
   AMP ← Noise Gate ← Metal ← Heavy Metal ← Wah ← Guitar
6. Blues:
   AMP ← Digital Delay ← Chorus ← Overdrive ← Guitar
7. Electric Acoustic:
   AMP ← Chorus ← Digital Delay ← Equalizer ← Enhancer ← Compression ← Guitar
8. Any Guitar Tone:
   AMP ← Digital Delay ← Graphic Equalizer ← Overdrive or Distortion or Metal ← Parametric Equalizer ← Guitar
9. Stereo or Twin Amps:
   AMP ← Digital Delay ← Stereo Chorus ← Guitar
   AMP ← Distortion or Overdrive ← /
10. Blues Old School:
    AMP ← Digital Delay ← Overdrive#2 ← Overdrive #1 ← Guitar
11. Whammy Special:
    AMP ← Digital Delay ← Chorus ← Pitch Shifter ← Wah Wah ← Overdrive/ Distortion ← Compression ← Guitar
12. Lead Doubling:
    AMP#1 ← Digital Pitch ← Overdrive ← Compression ← Guitar
    AMP#2 ← /
13. Texas Blues:
    AMP ← Digital Delay ← Blues Overdrive ← Compression ← Guitar
14. Modern Bass:
    AMP ← Bass Chorus ← Bass Equalizer ← Bass Limiter ← Auto Wah ← Bass Guitar
15. Grunge And Rock Bass:
    AMP ← Bass Chorus ← Bass Overdrive ← Octave ← Bass Guitar
16. Hard Rock:
    AMP ← Digital Reverb/Delay ← Flanger ← Overdrive/Distortion ← Guitar
17. Grunge Guitar:
    AMP ← Chorus ← Heavy Distortion ← Guitar
18. Tremolo:
    AMP ← Phaser ← Tremolo ← Metal Distortion ← Distortion ← Guitar
19. Max:
    AMP ← Reverb ← Chorus ← Delay ← Volume Pedal ← Compressor/Limiter ← Distortion ← Metal Distortion ← Equalizer ← Modulation ← Noise Supressor ← Octave ← Guitar