StefStoep
What is the best order for my pedal board?
Amp>Tuner>OD>Booster>Chorus>Delay>Guitar
This is how I current have it setup, is this the best option?
Second Question: I have recently bought a EHX linear Power Boost, ever time I use it(turn it on/step on it) I get a click sound coming through the amp. Is this normal for this pedal and other EHX or Boost pedals?
Gearhead
Most people put their boosters and drives before the chorus and delay. It prevents that the 'added' sounds like delay push up the drive effect and cause muddyness. There is no hard and fast rule on pedal order, however.
Your click may be caused by the way the switch is connected, in some cases putting a big resistor to ground from the 'inactive' part of the circuit helps. Not always though, and I dunno what the circuit of your pedal looks like.
StefStoep
Sorry, I show the chain wrong, this is how it looks.
Amp>Delay>Chorus>Boost>OD>Tuner>Guitar
AlanRatcliffe
Nothing wrong with your effect order as it stands. Some will prefer the chorus in front of the drive, but that's just personal taste.
The booster will work to raise the volume as you have it, while if you put it before the drive, it will kick the drive harder, raising the amount of overdrive, but give you less of a volume boost. Once again, it's what works for you.
The clicking problem is usually an impedance mismatch between two pedals - it's quite common to run into it with true-bypass pedals. Sometimes changing the order of pedals will help, especially if you can put something that has a bypass buffer in front of the problematic pedal. Sometimes you just end up getting rid of the problematic pedal.
StefStoep
I took the pedal out of my pedal board and used it alone. I stil get the clicking sound through the amp when I use it.
Any other advice on this?
All my other pedals are Boss except the one that is making the noise, I am using a Boss addapter with a daisy chain to run all my pedals, could this be the problem?
AlanRatcliffe
Hmmm... In these cases, sometimes you can put a 1 - 4.7 Meg resistor across the output jack to get rid of the pop. Sometimes the same from the circuit output to ground will also work. Doesn't affect the tone.
If that doesn't work, it's probably coming from a JFET, CMOS or relay bypass and it's a lot more complex to fix.
Gearhead
Same as what I tried to say...
AlanRatcliffe
Gearhead wrote
Same as what I tried to say...
:-[ True. Sorry...
Gearhead
Don't be, I may not have worded it properly ☹
Werner-Carstens
Hi StefStoep, I had exactly the same problem with an EHX chorus pedal. I figured out that the pop (click) sound only occurred on the first stomp and was silent on all stomps following the initial one. So I just got into the habit of giving it a stomp after powering it with the amp's output still muted. This sorted the problem out for the remainder of the gig at least. Don't have the pedal anymore. It was almost as if it stored some power which it off-loaded after a while. Still don't know what caused it, but it was very annoying.
Gearhead
True bypass pedals have a switch that alternates between sending the signal directly from the guitar (or previous pedal) through, or sending the modified signal. Once in the signal chain, the path is DC grounded, at least by the next pedal or amp. The path that is not active or amplified, might not be grounded. It might receive some DC signal or get affected by the surroundings to get to some other voltage than ground. As soon as you switch this path onto the amp, the DC will discharge which is what you hear as a pop. Even as little as 100mV will be enough to be heard loudly, as your signal at that point might only be 500mV. The answer to this particular problem is the high value resistor, that will not affect the AC guitar signal but slowly eat away any DC voltage before it builds up.
So you (Pinch) might be correct in the idea that your pedal 'builds up' something.
Werner-Carstens
Hi Gearhead, thanks for the explanation -it clarifies a lot for me. +1.
