Jehosaphat
288 posts
Aug 30, 2012
8:13 PM
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Just received my Harp Octave pedal from the States.
First impressions.Wow excellent overdriven effect and as they say it seems to have an anti feedback quality as well.
In the packaging was a printed note from Randy showing some examples of pedal setups but heres what has got me puzzled,they all show the Delay as first in the line
EG
Delay,Octave,Harp Break,harp tone into a PA(or amp)
I've always been led to believe that the Delay should always be the last in the chain?
Any thoughts?
Does Randy know something we don't?
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Jehosaphat
289 posts
Aug 30, 2012
10:13 PM
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@noodles
Yep that doco was included in my package from Lone Wolf but he also included another that showed diagrams of a few different pedal train setups
These are what showed the delay first in the line ups.
Hence the question
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Old Hickory
39 posts
Aug 31, 2012
2:56 AM
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I'm relatively new to the world of harmonica effects/amp set-up but I have a lot of experience with pedals from a guitarist standpoint. In general there aren't any hard fast rules pertaining to order but there are some general guidelines that I usually follow that work for traditional style tones. Here's an easy way to remember that I stole from custom pedal guru Robert Keely...
WORD
Which
Chain
Of
Effects
Pedals
Makes
Life
Easier
EFFECT GROUP
Wah
Compression
Overdrive
Equalizers
Pitch
Modulation
Level
Echo
Of course feel free to experiment but in 37yrs of playing guitar I've never known anyone to put delay before distortion and sound good to my ears. Try it for yourself though, it just depends on what kind of sound you're looking for. Tone is a very subjective, personal thing and everyone is different.
Just always try to keep in mind that an effect modifies the sound it receives. So would you really want to distort the delay or would it sound better to delay the distortion? Most people go for the latter.
One other thing you might want to consider is running your signal to a fairly clean amp. You've got the pedal for distortion so there's no need to dump everything into a dirty amp. That would be the same as putting a distortion pedal at the end of the chain.
Last Edited by on Aug 31, 2012 3:01 AM
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