shadow1 wrote
as soon as i swopped my ts808 INFRONT of the wah i got what i was looking for.
I generally prefer it that way round too. The wah works like a filter and the effect is a lot more radical if you are feeding it a more complex tone with a wider frequency range like an overdriven sound. Same goes for phasing - after the overdrive it's more radical and in front a lot more subtle.
I can't stress it enough - the "rules" are more
guidelines, and experimentation is key to finding your own sound. About the only "rule" I never break is reverbs at the end of a signal chain. But even other time-based effects like delays you can fiddle with the order - I often like them early in the chain and use them to split the signal into two, then use a different overdrive and other effects before recombining them (or even driving a second amp).
Some effects like pitch shifters and harmonisers sound best if you split the clean signal before the effect, then get up to two harmonies going, hard pan them left and right, and then use a different overdrive on each, before mixing them and the original signal back together - helps hide a lot of the artifacts and unnatural tone of the pitch shift effect.
Also, while compressors are often used in or near the beginning of a chain, I also like using them after modulation effects like phasing and flanging - just to keep the volume level more constant, without the peaks and dips you often get with these effects.
