Reverb and Delay

[markD]

To my ears, these fx kinda disappear quite easily in the band mix.

+1

i use a wet/dry set up in stereo. that is the only way i really hear my effects adequately live. the effects are 85% wet through 1 cab, and 100% dry through the other cab. my main "sound" has delay and chorus set up like i just described. my "special effects" patches are ratio'd according to what the effects are trying to accomplish.

but when i used to run mono with a bit of delay mixed in the loop it may as well not have been there at all.

[GodWentPUNK]

Being in a cover band that does a lot of 80's dance stuff, most of our songs has some keyboard stuff in by the original artist. Since we don't have a full time keyboard player, I'll do a lot of the keyboard stuff on my guitar and because of that, I have tons of patches for those songs because I try to match the original keyboard sound, and if I can't, I'll be creative and come up with some unique sound.

joe...

[jdr94]

i use a lil reverb/chorus on cleans and solo, but not on rhythm.

[MNash87]

I run my 5150 dry most of the time. Guitar-wireless-tuner-vol.-wah-overdrive (only for some solos)-chorus (clean parts only)-phaser (one song only, Bark At The Moon)-delay (one song only, Heaven and Hell for part of the solo)-ISP Decimator-amp. I use a BBE in the FX loop for both channels. I get a really big, fat sound, plenty of everything and not too much of anything, lol. About 95% of my rhythms are dry as are most of my solos. No reverb, although I wouldn't mind having it sometimes.

[MakeAJazzNoiseHere]

I use effects pretty sparingly. My typical "just practicing" sound is completely dry.

I will use a little chorus/delay/reverb on solos and clean, and I use a Morley WAH-SP, but I don't use it in typical wah-wah fashion.

[Endrik]

At home I plug the guitar straight to the amp and use that sweet spring reverb. I sometimes mess around with totally dry sound but to my ears the leads just don't sound good without any ambience.
And I really like delay, it can give a whole new dimension to things.

[Firebird V]

Do both... It depends if the head I am using has a reverb tank... I really do love a bit of amplifier spring reverb though and for me it blows away any effect unit / pedal reverb ... but that is another thread I guess.

[Spivonious]

I find that delay works really well on recordings, but can really turn things to mush when used live. Same with reverb. You're going to have a lot of room 'verb anyway from the place you're playing.

[Hellbat]

On the clean channel a use a decent amount of the spring reverb. Not dripping wet, but I have the control set at about 10:30. On the distortion channel I have it turned on just a hair. About 8:30 when the pot starts at around 7. I use the EH memory boy for a bit of delay set at a very low mix level. (20% or so.) I will turn up the mix and try out some of the crazier settings when playing with sounds.