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Note: This has also been posted by me on HRI.
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Ok guys,
I just bought some new pedals (my first stomp boxes, ever) and am wondering
a) what i should use to wire them up.
b) what i should use for a veratile case (that can go on international planeflights) within a tight budget. I change my mind often with gear and stuff gets put in/taken out (i'll most likely buy another few pedals within the next 12 months).
c) power requirements and how to run power
d) fx loop or not

Ok so the pedals are:
A modded Boss SD-1, a modded Vox 847 wah, a Boss TU-2 and Boss DD-6.
I run a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier head and avatar cab.

I was thinking of running the chain like this:
Guitar -gt; SD-1 -gt; Wah -gt; Tuner -gt; DD-6.

I will use the Sd-1 for a differently voiced distortion, mainly for softer more delicate parts on the recto clean channel or for funky parts sometimes as a shred boost.

Would I be better to run the wah straight in front of the amp or in the FX loop?
And should the delay go in the FX loop or not? If so, why?

I have had a 9V adapter mod done to the vox847 so it will take a boss type AC adapter.
I have a boss PSA-240P (standard 200mA power supply) and a daisy chain. Will 200mA be enough to run these 4 pedals? If not what should I use, should I have another power supply, if so - what kind?

I need ideas for a case because a week after these arrive im going for a week of gigs in Vanuatu and need a good case for them to be in, but I will most likely add pedals later so I dont want the case to cost me dollars and then become obselete.

Any ideas?
ANY HELP APPRECIATED!
THX A MILLION!

here was an idea i had (Except Swap the tuner and SD1 around position wise).

But i dont know what to make it out of or anything like that.

Hi Grandor,

I remember your post from a while back -- the graphic looks familiar.

As a general rule, time-based effects such as delay sound best in the effects loop.

I think I mentioned this one before: If you keep the delay in front of your amp rather than placing it in the effects loop, you may want to place it after the tuner so that when you stomp on your tuner to mute the sound it doesn't cut off the final delay repeats of the last note you struck. Also, keeping the overdrive before the delay is nice because when you mute your signal with the tuner you silence any hiss the overdrive may be creating.

Until I get some kind of fancy looping setup that adds or removes effects from my signal chain at will, I'll be keeping as many of my noisy effects as possible in front of (i.e., before) my tuner for the reason I stated above regarding your overdrive.

Helpful? Hope so.

- Keith


Originally Posted by KGMESSIER

If you keep the delay in front of your amp rather than placing it in the effects loop, you may want to place it after the tuner so that when you stomp on your tuner to mute the sound it doesn't cut off the final delay repeats of the last note you struck.

Yes thankyou, I remember the help you gave me. Much appreciated.

If u take note to the writing just above the graphic, I will change the position of the delay and the tuner, they will be swapped. I didnt change the graphic cause its too late right now and im so tired..


Originally Posted by GrandorYes thankyou, I remember the help you gave me. Much appreciated.

If u take note to the writing just above the graphic, I will change the position of the delay and the tuner, they will be swapped. I didnt change the graphic cause its too late right now and im so tired..

You had this as your last line just above the graphic:

quot;here was an idea i had (Except Swap the tuner and SD1 around position wise).quot;

That's what had me thrown for a loop (no pun intended). With that statement I was surprised that (a) you'd want to allow the tuner to cut off the delay's repeats and (b) you'd want to put overdrive after your delay.

Yup, sleepiness can make you type weird things. Lord knows I've done that enough times. Also, the duck made the turnstiles appear just as Giles had exactly one fortnight prior.

- Keith

If that were my rig I would plug into the tuner first, then the wah, the the SD-1 then the delay then go to the amp...the Wah is now true bypass and Boss pedals don't really need true bypass so your noise won't be bad like that. If you wanted to you could run the delay in the loop and you might even like it better that way but as for the others I have found that OD/Dist/Fuzz units sound best in the front of an amp as do wah pedals.

I would set mine up just as The Guy Who Invented Fire suggests. In fact, that's exactly how I have my rig set up with the exception of tuner placement (although for some time I had the tuner first in my signal chain).

- Keith

Ok thanks guys.gt; gt; gt; NOTE THE SMILEY lt;lt;lt;lt;

Here's what I'd recommend:

To wire them up? I'd look into George L's. I've had success with Bill Lawrence cable (pretty much the same thing).

Pedalboard - the best right now seems to be the SKB PS45. I have a Furman SPB-8 and love it, but it looks like SKB is doing the same exact power conditioning with slightly bigger space and a better case (the Furmans only flaw to me was the gig bag used to hold the pedalboard - too many cases of the handles falling off over heavy gigging). It's already professionally powered and accepts AC-adaptors for the stuff that doesn't fall into the standard 9v powered category.