Sorry i wasnt sure were to post this......
i am seriously confused with what my pedalboard setup can be.
My pedals are -
Boss bd-2
Trex mudhoney V1
Boss HM-2
mxr carbon copy
boss DD-20
vox v847 wah
Line 6 M5

My amp setup is a Marshall avt275 with a valvestate 2000 pedalboard i want a simple setup intially a wah - compression (will buy later on) - OD (only one at a time or two at a time) - Mod (line 6 m5) - Delay (only one at a time). The amp has a serial effects loop which i can use, im confused on how to set up the pedalboad, and also setup the pedalboard with the valuestate pedalboard can i want to be able to chose the channels and use one of the effects on the amp, sorry im an amateur on this stuff?????????
p.s. im going to get a power supply later.

Well, first you should start off with the Vox wah, then into your compression pedal. From your compression you should run into the Boss HM-2 if you plan on using it for your distortion sound, if not disregard it entirely. You will then want to run that into your overdrive pedals. From there I would suggest going into the Line 6 M5 for modulation, and then your delay pedal (I personally prefer the MXR Carbon Copy to the DD-20, but it's your call.) Keep in mind that you can run the overdrive pedals after your delay and modulation as well if you want to experiment, but it's typical for the Overdrive to come before delays and modulation.

The easiest and best way to get the most out of your amp and pedals is to utilise both pedals going into the front of your amp and also using the effects loop.

Your Guitar would go into your Wah, followed by compression (or whichever way you prefer), then into your overdrives and distortions in whichever order you find best (personally, I stack my drives in order of gain, from lowest gain to highest), then from the final Overdrive/Dist. pedal go straight into the front of your amp.

From the Effects loop send go into the input of your M5 and/or any other modulation pedals you may have, then into your delays (again, which order you use is totally up to you, I/most people tend to start with the shortest delay time and work up to the longest if you have several delays), then from the output of the final pedal in your Mod/Delay chain you link up to the Effect Loop Return input.

Although doing it this way will mean you use 4 cables instead of 2 you get the optimum sounds from your modulation effects and delay when using the distortion channel on your amp. If you stacked up all your pedals in order straight into the front of your amp then it means whenever you use the drive channel on the amp then you are adding distortion to your effected signal, rather than adding the effect onto a distorted signal (the best way I find to explain that physically is to take an overdrive pedal and a delay pedal and switch them round and listen to the differences: Distortion > Delay, the repeats ring out clearly and fade down evenly. Delay > Distortion, the repeats are distorted and can often cover up what you are playing at extreme settings.)

Also, not sure if this is redundant information as you may know this already, but there should be an output on the back/front panel for your Amp Footswitch to plug into. Apologies again if this is something you've already checked out.

Hope this all makes sense and is helpful in some way. Do let us know when you come to a setup that sounds and works right for you!

Cheers.

Really think of how the signal flow is going through your pedals. There is really no right or wrong way to do it if you follow tuner, distortions, gates/ noise reduction, then effect pedals.

I'd run your distortion heaviest to lightest gain. This will keep the mud out. And if your running a heavier gain (1st dist. pedal) then kick into a lighter gain (2nd dist. pedal) it could act as a boost pedal but also give your distortion a little more "sparkle".

Then run into your noise gates and compressor....Ive always ran the compressor after the noise gate. Doing this can "bring back the life" of your pedal that your noise gate kinda "killed". Make sense? Running your compressor before your noise gate isn't a bad thing...you can get some pretty rad tones that way but depending on the noise gate you're using it could cut tones.

The wah can be ran before your distortion giving you a pretty clean sounding wah sound. or after your noise gate/ compressor pedals giving you a more dirty crazy sounding wah sound...that will be your personal preference.

Then at the end you'll run your effects like reverbs, delays, ect...don't run them before your noise gate because it will actually cut off the sound of the effect your trying to run.

Shred on!

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