Stacking drives/distortions, where would you place them?

[Progrockabuse]

As it says in the thread,

Say for example you had

Marshall in a Box
Tubescreamer type o/d
Klon style o/d with Buffer
Distortion pedal (ds-1)

Fuzz Face would alway go first because of buffers and shit.

In what way would you stack/combine them,

Some people go low gain first and work up?

Some people go high gain first and work down?

Would the MIAB go last as the “amp” sound when running cleaner amps?

Would the TS or Klon be the last for an overall boost?

Thoughts? ideas?

[Bacchus]

Fuzz > distortion > overdrive/tubescreamer > Amp in a box > Klon

[Thom]

As above but switch the Distortion and T/S. I always have my mid boost before anything else.

[plopswagon]

Largest to smallest.

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[Progrockabuse]

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Love it
Like pedal jenga

[Progrockabuse]

So I’ve got the following wired up

FF>FD2>DS1>Klon

I can t believe I’ve been playing for all this time and never tried a DS-1. This thing at low gain is a proper crunch machine with single coils, got the tone around 9/10 o clock and turning the guitar volume down cleans up surprisingly well. It plays nice with the FF, find it smoothers the rough edges of a FF a little in a good way.

FD-2 in vintage mode is pretty much a tubescreamer, set with low drive and raised volume it gives some nice mid range hump to the DS-1 for lead work or a heavier rhythm tone.

Klon is so fucking loud, I’m having to keep it around 7 o clock at home. That’s got a bit of gain dialed in as a boost for lead work and it’s pretty affective for that. Can’t wait to try it at practice levels.

Still waiting on my RAT 2 to arrive, which might knock the DS-1 off. But so far, liking the range of sounds.

[paul_]

I tend to order things in terms of how much gain they’re bringing to the table. I’d put the DS-1 first because it barely does anything.

[Bacchus]

That's what I thought I did, but that isn't reflected in the list above.

I suppose I do do that, but within each class of pedal, where the classes are ordered:

boost > fuzz/distortion > overdrive > amp-in-a-box > klon

where klon is basically a class of its own.

So my old board used to be:

Saltbooster > Peach fuzz > Timmy > MBM OCD/DLS dual pedal > Klon

Can't remember my new board off the top of my head, but think it's:

McPherson Red Boost > Mc Pherson Red Llama > MBM Dream Box > Klon > loads of other stuff, delays wahs etc > Boss ODB-3 > Loads more other stuff

where the ODB-3 is in there for synthy fatness rather than conventional OD sounds.

[Doog]

I mean.. it depends on the sound you want?

[Bacchus]

No no no, there's the Correct Internet Forum Approved order, then there's cowboy town, with pedals all over the place.

[Gavin]

Doog walking around with his shoes on the wrong feet "you can wear them whatever way round you want, maaan"

[Bacchus]

Idiot.

[Doog]

I fondly remember stacking my RAT (missus) into the Nobels ODR-S I normally used as a clean solo boost, but with the gain turned up a bit; it was kinda like mashing a massive birthday cake into a funnel and down a drainpipe.

You can get some weird interactions by reducing the output of the first pedal in that scenario, so you've got these different elements fighting it out; the OD pedal isn't being PUSHED by a big loud signal, but it's got this quiet, harmonically rich sound to work with. Neat.

[Progrockabuse]

It really does depend on the order and the pedal itself.

Fuzz face stacks great with the DS-1 and anything Marshall flavoured. Doesn’t stack well with a TS style pedal, though if I stick the Fulldrive in flat mode it works well. The klon works great into the full drive and into the ds-1.

A lot of people online tend to bum the john Mayer tubescreamer into klon sound, but it didn’t do it for me.

I’ve thrown this board together, finally stuck some Velcro on my £1 ikea cupboard door. Only thing that’s annoying is a very slight volume drop when the Leslie sim is on, so thinking of sticking it in a loop selector that has a boost on it like a boss LS-2 or something. Then I can kick it on with a slight increase to stand out a little more.

[Thom]

Looking good!