The BEST Way To Stack Your Overdrive Pedals
Quick tip on how to stack your overdrive pedals
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My trick is to keep the gain low on all of them
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-> compressor —> mid heavy overdrive —- > transparent overdrive —-> transparent volume boost for solosBoosting a distorted tone, tightens up the low end and gives a wonderful tone for many kinds of metal.
does this also apply to stack a big muff fuzz and an overdrive?
Where would you put a mxr micro amp plus pedal?
Interesting approach. Thanks!
I’ve been doing it the opposite way. I’m going to give this a try.
Thanks
Incorrectly placed pedals can cause the FHR Deluxe to be thrown out the window and the Gibson to be stuck in the Deville speakers too! Watch out for the signal chain 🙂
I have always had trouble getting this method to work, I’ve tended to the opposite. It seems my intial high gain pedal gets swallowed up in a woolly cloud if I run it into anything lower gain. Except sometimes a clean boost. I’ve found if I sacrifice the functionality of the over drive on its own, by turning the tone way way up and adjusting the drive and volume just in relation to the previous drive, then its acceptable but now the OD sounds bad. For instance, running a big muff into a tube screamer, as many swear by, I have to turn the gain on the screamer off, the volume high and the tone virtually maxed or no treble comes thru and massive volume loss happens.
If I go tubescreamer into big muff or something similar, it may sound a little extra saturated if the gains are high, but it provides a strength/sustain, volume/famous mid boost that just strengthens it enough to boost a lead for instance.
It’s not a perfect sound but the other way
Isn’t even audible in a band setting.
I’ve tried this with tons of amps and even digital work stations and just straight into headphones and I get the same results.
If I run a big muff with tone past 50% into another medium high gain overdrive, it will create sustain and cut thru even if a little saturated.
I haven’t had success really running any form of fuzz OD distortion into a tube screamer or any over drive. I can finagle clean boosts but an EQ or compressor seems way more reliable and I can keep my overdrive set in a way that sounds good on its own and produces the sound I got it for
I just did this but put my eq empress deluxe first to shape then high gain distortion butter machine first then my fuzz (benson germanium) then my preamp pedal (Chass bliss automatone) for tone shaping then my verb vib looped with the delay and then my chass bliss clean compressor right around 2/1. The empress paraeq has a nice adjustable boost so i can add as much boost when needed. By doing this chain i get vertually no noise but my h&k triamp mk3 has a master insert so able to pump right into the 9 power tubes without all the preamp dialing in the gain master volume volume etc…
I think it is a bad advice and Vertex is a scam
Hard disagree. Low gain drives work best as boosts for higher gain drives and distortions, the classic example is using a tubescreamer to boost a Big Muff. On my own pedalboard, I use an EHX Hot Tubes with the gain and volume just below noon to boost an EHX Crayon. I do this because it gives the Crayon more saturation without changing the frequency content or the overall drive character, it just makes it a little thicker. EHX sells a dual drive with Crayon and Hot Tubes circuits but they put the Crayon first in the signal path and it sounds like dogsh!t imo. Adding a lower gain drive after another drive or distortion just results in muddiness and lack of definition.
I tend to go low gain into a med gain pedal that still has some headroom and will still boost vol a bit when you hit it with the first pedal into a clean to cleanish amp. This gives me clean(no pedals) a bit of gain(1st pedal) a crunch rhythm sound(2nd pedal) and a lead boost (both pedals). I dont really do high gain, but if I did Id use a Fuzz in front, so I guess the advice still kinda holds.
I like the opposite
Wet first, dry last, got it lol I got my special needs helmet on just trying to figure out how to make noise sound gooder
Hi, sorry, still learning here – Need help, so what he's saying is signal path 1. Distortion>2. Overdrive? Or in my case ( have 2 to 3 more pedals on top of the gain pedals ) , 1. Dist > 2.Chorus>3. Delay>4.Overdrive? Because I agree with what he says, having OD before the Dist makes the sound less pleasing, like it ruins the signal or something.
I'm not really sure unless he wants to get a different result
Whenever I put a Tubescreamer after a distortion/drive/fuzz in my chain, it turns it into Tubescreamer 2.0.
Gotta try that
Going to swap places with my SD-1 and Rat after watching this
I too thought it was opposite lol I'm gonna try this now though
may i ask, in my case i have an sd-1, os-2, and a mooer cruncher. what should be the sequence? i mainly use the sd-1 as a clean boost.
Just try stuff
I've been doing just the opposite. I'll try this and give myself a bit of time to make adjustments while living with it before giving up. Maybe I'll find it works better for me.
Thanks!
I have heard this tip from you before, but I realised that I didn't apply it properly. I put my distortion pedal before my OD pedal, yes, but I still used my OD pedal as stage 1 gain and then my distortion as stage 2, but it didn't change the sound other than more gain was added. I found that it was best to use less gain on my distortion pedal for stage 1 gain and then the use the OD pedal to provide boost and beef to the sound and that works super well I think.
I do the complete opposite. I go Boost,Klon clone, Prince of Tone, then the Barber Direct Drive. This way I can use the boost to give extra gain to any of the ODs down the line. I use a single Boss EQ-200 before and after to shape tone or use it as a boost pedal as it saves 16 presets.
this is the way if your high gain pedal can deliver on its own and you just need to tighten it up a liitle bit. however, i use a crunch pedal (unlike revv g3 for comparison) which can't get tight metal chugs even on highest gain, then ill go guitar – OD – crunch – eq pedal to clean amp channel = unlimited chug metalcore riffing madness
Sounds like a good place to start, as with anything music related then I take the advice, with an alternate meaning on the main word, of the great tucán himself… flow your nose. Switch it up and see what works for you including settings and volume (the overall volume is part of the gain structure too not just the gain knob). I also like having a way of getting a great distortion sound with the three drives I have (well one has a boost on it so four in reality) and being able to turn it down without losing the distortion created by the pedals. Currently I do it by putting all the drivers in the loop of my volume pedal, I use to do it by putting the pedal with the boost at the end and turning the boost (post everything) down
For me i did both one time nearest to guitar and one time farthest it definitely sounds better closer to guitar in my case, so he definitely is right haha
You just know Zach’s got so many smokeshows throwing themselves at him ????
Well deserved to, dudes a G
Will give it a try. What order would you put a Tumnus, morning glory, OCD, TS, Friedman OD?
The Boss MD2 is exactly that a distortion circuit into a boost overdrive circuit
The first time I saw this video, I thought that guy is full of crap, and then I tried it, and it really works.
What’s interesting about this is in the metal community, we always do OD/boost before high gain, but when you explain it this way, the theory makes a LOT of sense. I’ll have to give it a go.
Distortion > od transparent for rock, od midbooat > distortion for metal. This is my set up
Would you run a TS9 through the effects loop of a distorted Marshall?
Hmmm, if I run a Friedman BE pedal and then set the klon after it for a lead boost it just runs in the klon and sounds mushy