Changes

Let's look at an example signal chain:

We start with the pre-amp and power amp - those are the only parts of the chain that ''have'' to be on. Everything else is set to bypass or removed from the signal chain for now. We set the pre-amp to a clean channel, minimum drive (if available), and a conservative channel volume. We set the master volume of the amp somewhat low - loud enough to hear but the tone should still be clean, definitely far below the amp's clean headroom. This is our baseline to set up at least the stomp effects (before the amp).