Amateur guitarist here, posting from Paris, France.
My initial intention was to reduce my pedalboard to very few essential effects pedals... Finally I'm adding some new ones... so I ended up with 11 pedals (starting with 8 ones).
Brands are Kokko, Ammoon, Behringer, TC Electronics, Dunlop, Mooer, Ibanez.
Chained like this: Comp > Wah > Overdrive > Distortion > Fuzz > Phaser > Tremolo > Mods (chorus/Vibrato/Rotary) > Delay > Reverb > Looper
Some updates:
I'm playing pop rock and hard rock songs in a four piece band, with some "space rock" bits here and there.
The looper is essentialy a training device when I'm alone at home. This model allows for a Reverse effet and I intend to use it live when I'm comfy with it.
The Kokko Space is a really nice reverb for the cheap price, cranked up to max it produces a very cool and subtle dreamy/spacy effect.
The Behringer Vintage Phaser is the best phaser I could test (and I tested a lot of cheap phasers...). It's very smooth and creamy, and doesn't boost the signal when switched on (more expansive pedals tend to do it...).
Any comment?
That's because the bigger crybaby such as GCB95 doesn't have true bypass and their buffer is quiet bad. I had the same treble soak problem as you describe and modded mine to true bypass by soldering a new switch and removing that buffer. Works great now.
Mine is the weird "inbetween" nodel from 1990. It doesn't have a buffer.