Even though there are no “rules” i think it could be helpful to beginners to provide an order in which to connect their effects if they are completely lost.

So here’s my attempt at a rough guideline:

Noise Reduction
Volume
Wah
Compression
Overdrive
Distortion
Fuzz
Boost
EQ
Phaser
Flanger
Chorus
Delay
Reverb

I’m sure someone else will have a different guideline which if anything just goes to prove that there is no right or wrong order to put your effects and just place them in whatever order sounds best to you

Riff 1a hot tubes
Riff 1b GeOD
Riff 1c deluxe big muff
Riff 2a GeOD
Riff 2b deluxe big muff
Riff 2c hot tubes

thats my guess – but if thats totally wrong its probably because airbourne were very VERY loud last night lol

i thought those weren’t something i’d imagined – my Laney VC30 speaker cable has a socket like that so i guessed that they must make patch cables like it too. They’d probably help, but then they’d make the pedals be a bit too squashed together which isn’t something i want to do – i’m very shaky on stage, i have kinda physical panics where emotionally i’m completely calm but my body shakes as though i have serious stage fright so it can make me hit the wrong pedals too easily hehe.

Ok, as promised, I managed to find the camera (hidden in the strange compartment at the top of a chest of draws with a door that opens from the bottom that i used to call the “cakey” when i was a kid).

Some mysterious stuff there. I tried to get my amp in the pic as much as possible without showing up how much of a mess of boxes and cables there is next to it – and excuse the random jar of small change – that is my dad’s, i don’t know what its doing there really.

For the sake of any questions – the squiffy little guitar is a hofner shorty that i bought on tuesday. Its actually lovely to play and sounds pretty good too. Simply put in the photo because it was small enough to fit.

Then the pedals: The wah is first in the chain – its a vintage JEN “mister crybaby super” that i managed to get for £15. The 2 silver pedals are a Marshall JH-1 OD/Distortion and ED-1 Compressor. The vox is just a channel/reverb switch for my amp. That odd colourful pedal is a Danelectro Talkbox, it does the job, although i wish i’d got something a little better. The orange pedal is a Boss DS-2, which is very underrated IMO. The next 3 need no introduction – EHX Big Muff and small stone, and a small clone in the FX loop. Also in the FX loop is that bashed up danelectro delay pedal which cost me £2. All these are powered by a godlyke PA-9UK or a SoundLab Pedal Power 450.

The amp is a laney VC30. I run all my distortions into a very slightly overdriven amp all the time – it just thickens up the sound and smooths off the harshness that comes from the transistors and diodes.

Long post, but i love discussing gear a bit too much

I agree with Ming about the low wattage tube amp – Didn’t there used to be this little amp in a nice looking wooden cabinet? I think i remember it on the old website, but can’t remember what it was or whether it was solid state or tube.

I have a suggestion for the classic style reissues which is to include an adaptor for the mini-jack style power socket to go on the end of a standard outside negative “barrel style” cable – Ibanez do it with the TS808 reissue, and it would make it so much easier for giving the pedals mains power.

Not sure if thats what you were talking about though.

I think there should be some kind of octave-fuzz pedal – i don’t have much of an imagination at the moment though

Any chance of sound clips?

All i’ve heard from the GeOD is the proguitarshop.com demo. This pedal does appeal to me though, if it can get that classic “slashed speaker” fuzztone without a scooped midrange.