I have a lot of conversations with guitarists who are getting into effects pedals and wondering what they should purchase and what order they should wire everything in. There are a couple different schools of thought out there concerning hooking up a pedalboard or chain of pedals, but here's how I do mine. 1. Compressor, Whammy, and/or Fuzz​ Compressors can get really noisy when they're placed later in the chain. Also Whammy pedals and Fuzzes "prefer" to have the guitar sig