Gear — Pedalboard Order and Why, Signal Chain & Gain Staging

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Two pages under /gear/ — listed below, each with its own description.

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Gear

Pedalboard Order and Why — Trade-offs, Not One Correct Chain

Tuner, dynamics, drive, gate, modulation, time-based — where each belongs, what changes if you move it, and a live chain you can reorder to see exactly why.

Gear

Signal Chain & Gain Staging — The Physics Behind the Forge

The physics behind the forge: pickup induction, humbucker hum-cancelling, pedal order, clipping, preamp vs power amp and pot values — honestly sourced.

Gear

The Rig Mechanism Index

134 things that change what a guitar rig sounds like — what each one does, and what it does to the sound. Searchable, grouped by where in the chain it acts.

Gear

Pickup Resonance and Cable Load Calculator

A pickup is a resonant circuit, and where it resonates is most of what people mean by the character of a guitar. Everything downstream adds capacitance…

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Gear — Pedalboard Order and Why, Signal Chain & Gain Staging

Pedalboard Order and Why — Trade-offs, Not One Correct Chain

Signal Chain & Gain Staging — The Physics Behind the Forge

The Rig Mechanism Index

Pickup Resonance and Cable Load Calculator

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