Pedals that stack with the Kustom 200

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → fuzzy)

Run Sola Sound Tone Bender MkII into that transparent platform and it finally leans toward fuzzy

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → fuzzy)

Into a transparent tone, Fulltone OCD Obsessive Compulsive Drive brings a pull toward fuzzy that's missing

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → high gain)

EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas leans this transparent tone toward high gain, which it doesn't make on its own

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep EarthQuaker Devices Grand Orbiter V3 after Kustom 200 in the signal chain, clear of Kustom 200's own gain stage

Goes in front of the amp

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain.

What Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer brings here leans toward dynamic — that's worth building a pairing around

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Mr. Black Bloodmoon in Kustom 200's effects loop, clear of Kustom 200's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Put JHS 3 Series Oil Can Delay in Kustom 200's effects loop, clear of Kustom 200's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop