Effect Order?

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I have a FMR RNC and an M-One XL and wondering the best order of effects
to use. I'm using the M-One primarily for the Expander, Gate and Verb and figure the RNC is better before the M-One as not to compress the verb? Or should the compressor go after the gate/expander/verb? I guess what I'm asking is what is the norm?

I'm a newbie and it shows :)
 
Most would compress before the reverb... and in most cases you should... but you can get interesting results the other way around... so try both
 
Do you want to compress the reverbed signal or reverb the compressed signal? Try it both ways I think and then tell us what you think! (I usually reverb after personally)

Jacob
 
Thanks for the input, I was thinkin reverb after compression too, just seems logical and more natural sounding. But what about a gate/expander, I am thinking the same would apply, after the compressor. I'm looking to work with a really transparent compression, think Zep guitars where just the edges are taken down a little bit and vocal are clean and smooth, no ultra compression.
 
Don't feel like you have to compress just cuz it's there, some of the cleanest tracks I record don't get any compression until final mix
 
The typical chain would go Gate-->Compressor-->Reverb

You can do whatever you want though. Tom Morello gets a lot of his goofy sounds from putting pedals in odd orders. Sometimes newbies that don't know "the norms" come up with the most original sounds; so don't worry about what everyone else is doing too much. Unless your sound is crap. :p

BTW: I would be very surprised if Jimmy Page had a compressor in his guitar rig.
 
That "order" is something like:

1. dynamic
2. EQ
3. frequency
4. modulation

I think that's how I was told. I may have the EQ and frequency mixed up.
 
Since compression raises the noise floor, I would think you'd want your gate before the compressor.
 
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