Tuner second in pedal effects chain after wah? Good idea?

[Lucas]

Hi, as I`m in the middle of finishing my first pedalboard, I have a question about placing a guitar tuner.
Normally it goes first, but will it work AFTER wah pedal (wah has a true bypass)? The thing is that I want to keep my wah on right edge of the board and there`s no way to place tuner before it.
I`ve heard once wah has true bypass (and obviously it`s not engaged) there will be no problem with placing tuner second.

Any experience?

many thanks as always.
Lucas

[Kiichi]

No experience, but as you say just by logic it should be fine if it is on bypass, be it true or a good buffered one. Theoretically you could place it at the end of the pedal as long as the other pedals are bypassed. That is what I recon at least.

[Dave Sloven]

Yeah it works, I put a Polytune after a Dimebag wah once and it worked fine except when I forgot to turn the wah off, even though the Dimebag wah is buffered.

[Lucas]

Many thanks, problem solved.

I suppose that might be a common issue as many people want to place their wah on the edge of the pedalboard.

cheers!

[Dave Sloven]

Many thanks, problem solved.

I suppose that might be a common issue as many people want to place their wah on the edge of the pedalboard.

cheers!

I run mine off the pedalboard altogether now, and just just plug it into the power using an extension  from the daisy chain and then sit in on  the floor with a patch cable to the board. I don't use wah often and didn't want it taking up space on my board unless I was really using it

[Slartibartfarst42]

I certainly recognise the problem. On my board I have the tuner sat below the Wah as it's small enough to step over when the Wah is in operation and I bought a longer patch cable to connect them. Generally I tend to keep all pedals in the 'correct' and 'logical' order on my board and I've ended up with a collection of patch cables of all kinds of lengths to make that work.