BUILD YOUR PEDALBOARD
01 VOLUME
Where to put it: At the start of your chain. Placed here, it’s like having your guitar’s volume knob in pedal form.
ALTERNATIVELY
If you don’t want trails from delays and reverbs, and want the signal’s decay, place it at the end. It can be quite dramatic to gradually roll off large, heavy guitar parts in a studio-like fade while playing live.
02 COMPRESSOR
Ideally, any compression should happen before the rest of the signal chain, so as to tame peaks,
