10.17.09, 5:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Leeroyfunk
No they don't: Pedal order is entirely subjective, what a ridiculous statement.
Plenty of great players put compression before all else, (auto)wah included: Whether they use both simultaneously is a different matter. However, compression tends to sound much better before standard (pedal) wah, I find a compressor after a wah can result in the peak frequency from the wah being boosted significantly, occasionally causing nasty spikes at certain frequencies.
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From BossUS.com:
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The PW-10 wah, like most wahs, works best if it gets an uneffected signal directly from the guitar. A wah is simply an active tone control with a pedal instead of a knob. It wants to work on the basic tone of your guitar. If it was after the compressor, the boosted signal from the compressor could overdrive the input of the wah, making it sound unpleasantly distorted. And since a compressor is an amp, and a wah boosts certain frequencies, the noise level could get considerably higher before it even gets to the overdrive, where noise can really get to be an issue.
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Placing a wah later in the effects chain is ok, but they tend to have a lot of trouble when you go that route. Most people here will probably agree that a wah is best in front of other effects.
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