What do I miss in this pedal board?

Sapatown

Sapatown

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#1
Hey,

I was wondering what you would put in this board?
I have a tuner, into a Darkglass Vintage Ultra v2 Preamp, Pharaoh BATW Fuzz, Damnation Audio Distortion, and Minotaur Swamp Lord fuzz, (Muff clone with mids) into a Walrus Fanthom Reverb pedal.

Later I have added a Delay pedal infront of the Reverb.
I also switched the Pharaoh Fuzz in the place of the Swamp Lord, which made my tone alot better!
I only use one of the Fuzz/Distortion at a time for different songs..

I play loud heavy rock metal in Drop C tuning, (CGCF).

Maby I should get a compressor pedal? Or a Noise gate?
Like a supply pedal instead of another effect pedal to make the sound smoother or more articulate.

I also wonder what you guys think is the best to have the preamp first in the pedalboardchain, or last, after all the effects..?

Cheers!
 

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Sounds like you don't need anything else. If you're always using all that dirt your signal is naturally compressed too, a separate pedal won't do much.

If you must absolutely spend money maybe consider building a crossover/frequency-split path with something like KMA Tyler and keep those lows clean and maybe apply a compressor there? I suppose that'd be one of the most noticeable improvements you can make.
 
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Wretched Banana said:
Sounds like you don't need anything else. If you're always using all that dirt your signal is naturally compressed too, a separate pedal won't do much.

If you must absolutely spend money maybe consider building a crossover/frequency-split path with something like KMA Tyler and keep those lows clean and maybe apply a compressor there? I suppose that'd be one of the most noticeable improvements you can make.
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Agreed on the splitter.

I will say that a compressor can make a difference ahead of the dirt. If found that running a comp first will change how the fuzz/distortion behaves, and can also function as a boost to push settings that aren’t already maxed out on gain. For my rig (Hilbish Compressimiser and Pessimiser) the comp adds more mid focus to the first, but not the same way boosting the mid EQ does.

Obviously IME, YMMV.
 
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Cioks DC7 V2 for power. It won't "smooth or articulate" but it will give you a perceived "hi-fi" quality from the reduction of white noise. This often why some players avoid pedals altogether...they would rather play clear/articulate than awash in modulation or dealing with multiple gain stages.
 
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cheapbasslovin said:
The texture of the distortion will be different. Also the more detailed eqs will have a lot more harmonic content to shape if they're placed after the fuzz.
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So having the fuzzes infront of my preamp will also make the fuzz effect trough the PA with DI, right? For example if I dont have amps live.

Had a gig once, and blew the amp out.
So me and the band got no bass onstage. But since my preamp had DI running into the soundmans desk, the crowd still hadd bass on the house PA.

But it was only clean, since it was first in the chain of my board.
 
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Sapatown said:
So having the fuzzes infront of my preamp will also make the fuzz effect trough the PA with DI, right? For example if I dont have amps live.

Had a gig once, and blew the amp out.
So me and the band got no bass onstage. But since my preamp had DI running into the soundmans desk, the crowd still hadd bass on the house PA.

But it was only clean, since it was first in the chain of my board.
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That's right.
 
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