Distorsion Pre Or Post?

[stickgabry]

hi guys, is better to use distorsion pre or post? what's the audio difference?? i'm not a guitarrist and i'm a newbie about pedals and effects.

thank you all

Gabry

[jimsreynolds]

Conventional wisdom says that distortion and overdrive go before the amp (PRE) and I would go with that.   Typically, you would setup a good basic tone on your amp and then apply the distortion to taste.  

 

Remember, there are no 'rules' with effects.  Just guidelines. You may see people making absolute statements about where effects should be placed.  Usually these represent a good place to start but there is no rule that says that if you like the sound of an effect in the  'wrong' place then it should not go there.  Often though, effects are in a certain order to make sure that they interract with other effects properly.

 

Typically ..

 

Pre (before the amp)

Distortion/overdrive

Wah

 

Post (After the amp)

Reverb (end of the chain)

 

Either location, very much down to taste

EQ

Compression

Phase

Flange

Chorus

Pitch shift

Noise gates

Filters

Etc

 

Of course your ability to place effects in a certain location is limited by what pod you have.  On the 500/bean/pro however these effects can go anywhere.

[stickgabry]

 

Thank you very much Jim !!  5 stars!!!!

 

[SiCantwell]

Robert Keeley, an effects wizard, offers his suggestion on the order of effects here:

http://jimbeck.com/pedalclinic/Order_of_pedals-Keeley.pdf

Take it for what it's worth. One way to remember is to use this sentence:

"Which chain of effect pedals makes life easy?"

I'm not sure why he thinks a phaser is a wah effect but a flanger is a modulation effect.

[stickgabry]

i love this forum!!

thank you very much!!

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