Before in a pedal chain

Jam10

When people say place the pedal, ex.(phase) before the (chorus) do they mean before as in closer to the amp or closer to the guitar? What is before and what is after?
Ex. Amp Phase Chorus Guitar
or
Amp Chorus Phase Guitar

MichaelMcKevin

Jam10 wrote:

When people say place the pedal, ex.(phase) before the (chorus) do they mean before as in closer to the amp or closer to the guitar? What is before and what is after?
Ex. Amp Phase Chorus Guitar
or
Amp Chorus Phase Guitar

Before means closer to the guitar. Signal flows from the guitar, through the chain, and to the amp. So the signal gets to the phaser BEFORE the chorus. You can think of it that way.

Guitar>Phase>Chorus>Amp

Anon

Jam10 wrote:

When people say place the pedal, ex.(phase) before the (chorus) do they mean before as in closer to the amp or closer to the guitar? What is before and what is after?
Ex. Amp Phase Chorus Guitar
or
Amp Chorus Phase Guitar

Guitar
phase
chorus
amp

EDIT: sorry GTC we posted at the same time.

ianvomsaal

GivenToCarve wrote:

Before means closer to the guitar. Signal flows from the guitar, through the chain, and to the amp. So the signal gets to the phaser BEFORE the chorus. You can think of it that way.

Guitar>Phase>Chorus>Amp

YUP +1
Your signal runs from guitar to amp, so before is before.

Jam10

Thanks again guys!

BinFrog

In case it helps, the chorus is the last pedal in my chain before the delay pedals and my holy grail reverb.