Sonic Stomp

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Guitar & Bass Tuner and 6 In Sonic Sense Patch Cable $91.95 Sonic Sense package includes the Boss TU-3 tuner and (1) Sonic Sense 6" patch cable for patching between stomp boxes. The worlds top-selling stage tuner, the BOSS TU-2, evolves and improves with the debut of the new TU-3. Housed in a tank-tough BOSS stompbox body, the TU-3 features a smooth 21-segment LED meter with a High-Brightness mode that cuts through the harshest outdoor glare. Choose betwee...

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Sonic Stomp $16.98 ...

MIKE ORLANDO-SONIC STOMP $10.99 Sonic Stomp is the debut instrumental, over the top, extreme rock guitar CD from New York musician Mike Orlando. Sonic Stomp also features such guests as guitar great Ron Thal - Bumblefoot and A.J. Pero of Twisted Sister. The twelve tracks take the listener from raging over the top guitar playing with sheer finesse and lighting speed to beautiful ballads with great feel - and everything in between...

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How should I order these effects pedals?

Boss TU-2 Tuner
Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator
Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion
Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
MXR Wylde Overdrive
MXR Dyna Comp
BBE Sonic Stomp
Line 6 DL-4 Delay
Visual Sound Visual Volume Pedal

First off, that's way too many pedals. Do you *really* need all of those pedals in your signal chain all at once? More pedals means more power supplies (or more batteries!), more noise, more signal loss, more cables, and more complexity! I quickly learned when I was gigging that simple is far more important than getting "the perfect tone".... you don't want anything going wrong, or if it does you want it easy to fix... and more pedals means more things to go wrong!

Anyways... my preference (if I had to use all of them) would be...

Tuner - Dyna Comp - Overdrive - SD-1 - MD-2 - NS-2 - AC-3 - CE-5 - Volume Pedal - DL-4 - Sonic Stomp

Okay, so my reasoning is that the tuner needs the purest signal possible to work correctly. After that, a bit of compression will help fatten the signal up a bit, if I use it. Usually you want lower gain pedals going in to higher gain pedals if you want to use one to push the next one into more crunch, or after if you want to use the cleaner pedal as a solo boost. I chose the "crunch" order, or overdrive - the rest.

The NS-2 is a glorified noise gate, and I know that if you set the threshold at high and the decay to very fast, you can add some chunk to your palm-muted power chords. Can kill your sustain if your pickups aren't too high of output, though. Might need to dial in a bit of boost from your overdrive to keep that from happening, it depends on your rig.

Acoustic simulator before chorus, in case i'd want a chorused acoustic sound. Volume pedal before delay so that when I fade in or fade out it doesn't chop off the delayed sounds all weird.

The Sonic Stomp should always be the last pedal in your signal chain, or preferably the last pedal in your fx loop. Speaking of which, putting your modulation (chorus etc) and time-based (ie delay and reverb) effects in your fx loop will give them more clarity and bring them out more, and will let you use your chorus if you use your distorted channel. It can be cool to put a slight chorus on a distorted tone.

Anyhoo, that's my take on it.

Of course, I'd preferably use the tuner, MD-2, and Chorus, and that's it. My guitar is properly shielded/grounded, so I don't have any noise issues, I have decent output pickups, so I don't need compression, and pretty much everything else isn't of any use to me.... I'll use a multifx pedal for clean effects if necessary, but otherwise its usually just my wah pedal and my Boss Metalcore. Coupled with my tube preamp, of course... I have no complaints, gets me the tones I want... a good clean, a good distorted, and a good solo tone (wah has a solo boost).

Saul