How to order guitar pedals effects in signal chain

What's the right guitar effects connection order on your guitar pedalboard? Any doubt about pedalboard guitar pedals order setup? Fuzz should be placed before or after overdrives? Should the octave connected before distortions? And phaser, univibe? Find out the bases guidelines about the best guitar pedals effects order.
This is the first guide of a series we have created to help you learn more about pedalboard effects. The video is just a quick overview, read the PDF guide to learn more.

[jcarh]

This is so simple and too the point. Now I know I don't think like a guitarist... I am singer that plays guitar. Neural DSP needs to watch your videos.

[destiny-theseries]

FINALLY a video where they actually SHOW you the signal chain. Do you know how many videos I had to watch that promised this and didn't? Thanks!!! Great job!

[Darthys]

the thumbnail alone helped me tremendously.

[DuePancho]

Best video about pedal order, straight to the point and accurate

[drabdullahchugtai]

Welcome to YouTube sir! Glad to have someone who knows how to explain these complex things in a simple way

[myguitarcloud]

Great information for someone who is new in a crazzy cosmic world of guitar toys! Simply explained! 👌

[DenBlackburn]

Thanks, being a novice with FX peddles and so on, this is a great place for me to start, thanks again ;)

[kennethpogue]

Ahh thank you. I didnt like having my drive before the super octave bit it didnt sound right after the flanger and chorus either. You solved my problem in less than a minute

[xFrostyDZN]

If you put a modulation pedal in your effects loop, I will personally come to your house and give you a very stern look.

[djay]

Certain drive pedal, like the BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone, perform very well in the effects loop.

[McSlobo]

If you put tuner as last you can use it to mute even echo and reverb. An old analog fuzz is the one which probably prefers to be the first but no hard rule for that either. Some vibes might also want to be in the beginning phase. Just experimenting with a delay into OD and sounds pretty nice, just saying.

[rebeccabailey]

This is good advice for beginners, but it's also a very good idea to experiment with pedal order and combinations of pedals that you dont normally hear together, you may find something really cool, that you wouldn't find by following conventional wisdom.

There are some things that dont work, like drive/distortion/fuzz in the fx loop. Sounds terrible, and it'll drop the amp volume severely.

[MultiVivekshah]

I generally put compressor after overdrive or distortion

[smeemusic]

I really enjoy what you have composed here. I would just like to give a tiny bit of input. I really hope this is a good suggestion. I see this video as being aimed at more entry level players or experienced players that are new to pedals. So here’s the suggestion, One thing I think should be mentioned is if nothing else just the existence of buffers and maybe a quick explanation of why you might need one. I played guitar 20 years either with no buffers in my signal chain or a couple buffers that I didn’t know about because I wasn’t educated on the subject. No one had ever mentioned to me a thing about buffers. No one ever told me ALL boss pedals have and operate as buffers.

Back to my suggestion. I think to have just mentioned a buffer in this video would get anyone serious enough to do their own research. Look, I just woke up and the house is quite and I’m just waking up. If this is a pointless post, just let me know and I’ll delete it lol

[michaelmendillo]

What an excellent tutorial. !
Very easy to grasp, , , , this stuff can be easily over complicated, , , TY ! To all involved, , , , 😎👍

[MrSmokeingood]

So if I want to put a noise gate and a over driver pedal with a tuner what order would be best

[philrarumangkay]

can i add DI box in this pedal order?? if can, where i have to put em in chain..., , btw thanks🙏, this video very easy to understand for me as a beginner👍🙏🙏🙏

[krzysiekpazdan]

And after you plug it in you play on a clean or on a lead channel?

[julesochitarresta]

What kind of cables I need to power them?

[valcrist]

So using the Return and Send "Turns Off" the Overdrive/Drive distortion of the amp? If so, why not just crank the distortion from the amp all the way to zero?
If not, why not just put the modulation effects at the end of the effects chain?