bacchettadavid
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I'll chime in here, too.
Like Hollis, for playing in church, I recommend you first acquire a good DI box with some EQ and feedback control features. Good ones are pricey but worth every penny. From there, I'd recommend investing in a good tuner followed by compressor, reverb, delay, or a looper. Each of those effects works well with acoustic instruments. You can then build from there, exploring volume, overdrive, modulation, etc.
Here's my own board presented in stereotypical order of effects:
DI/Preamp (all effects except tuner in effects loop of DI box): Radial PZ-Pre
Tuner (out from tuner out on DI): Boss TU-3
Volume: Hilton Electronics Pro Guitar - got the idea from a Jake vid.
Bypass looper: Saturnworks LED model
Octave (in bypass loop): Electroharmonix Micro POG
Overdrive (in bypass loop): Ibanez TS-9
Tremolo (in bypass loop): Mooer Trelicopter
Delay: Hilton Electronics The Legend Pro-Delay
Reverb: Robert Keeley Aurora
Looper: Digitech Jamman Solo XT w/ FS-3 footswitch
Powersupply: Cioks PP-10 (creative variant of the DC-10)
I tend to switch between two orders of effects: the stereotypical one above is very practical, but I also enjoy a more heavily effected sound as follows:
DI->volume->reverb (sometimes followed by delay)->bypass looper->overdrive (in bypass loop)->Micro POG (in bypass loop)->Delay->Tremolo->looper. In this order, the overdrive brings out the reverb more and, if I put the delay immediately after the reverb, keeps the tails on the delay going for a while, allowing me to really chop them up with the tremolo pedal. It's pretty trippy, but it's a bit of a feedback monster at higher sound pressure levels.
Not on the board since it's more of a home & preparation tool: Digitech Trio+.
I'm still exploring other effects. I really want to get more into modulation, wah, and compresssion. As hollis hinted at, pedals get very lonely and have a bad habit of reproducing when left unsupervised.
Like Hollis, for playing in church, I recommend you first acquire a good DI box with some EQ and feedback control features. Good ones are pricey but worth every penny. From there, I'd recommend investing in a good tuner followed by compressor, reverb, delay, or a looper. Each of those effects works well with acoustic instruments. You can then build from there, exploring volume, overdrive, modulation, etc.
Here's my own board presented in stereotypical order of effects:
DI/Preamp (all effects except tuner in effects loop of DI box): Radial PZ-Pre
Tuner (out from tuner out on DI): Boss TU-3
Volume: Hilton Electronics Pro Guitar - got the idea from a Jake vid.
Bypass looper: Saturnworks LED model
Octave (in bypass loop): Electroharmonix Micro POG
Overdrive (in bypass loop): Ibanez TS-9
Tremolo (in bypass loop): Mooer Trelicopter
Delay: Hilton Electronics The Legend Pro-Delay
Reverb: Robert Keeley Aurora
Looper: Digitech Jamman Solo XT w/ FS-3 footswitch
Powersupply: Cioks PP-10 (creative variant of the DC-10)
I tend to switch between two orders of effects: the stereotypical one above is very practical, but I also enjoy a more heavily effected sound as follows:
DI->volume->reverb (sometimes followed by delay)->bypass looper->overdrive (in bypass loop)->Micro POG (in bypass loop)->Delay->Tremolo->looper. In this order, the overdrive brings out the reverb more and, if I put the delay immediately after the reverb, keeps the tails on the delay going for a while, allowing me to really chop them up with the tremolo pedal. It's pretty trippy, but it's a bit of a feedback monster at higher sound pressure levels.
Not on the board since it's more of a home & preparation tool: Digitech Trio+.
I'm still exploring other effects. I really want to get more into modulation, wah, and compresssion. As hollis hinted at, pedals get very lonely and have a bad habit of reproducing when left unsupervised.
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