No verb or delay??

No verb or delay??

AmirH said:
Let me know if you do end up wanting to sell the Verbzilla -- I've had an eye out for a used one for several months :)
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Sorry, dude. I think shipping and the exchange rate would make that a pretty bad trade for you. :)
 
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I have two delays on my board and have no use for them both.
One is enough for me, I'd rather sell my DD5 and get a tuner pedal or something more practical.
 
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I use a dry tone when playing rhythm (50% of the time), and a wetter tone when playing lead the rest of the time. I will soon get a Flint, and I've already got a Wet with a favorite switch that alters two of the settings at once. When all's in place, I'll essentially have three levels of reverbs to pick from. I've got a Timeline delay as well that's used a lot.

The music I play begs for textural/atmospheric soundscapes.
 
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SlyFoxx said:
I play 100 percent dry about 1 percent of the time and that's not counting acoustic couch jamming.
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Right there with you SlyFoxx

A guitar is a guitar...... plain and simple. My enjoyment is the music and to add a little flair to it only enhances it. Dry guitar is Dry guitar...... I can hear that anywhere. The effects that I use are for my enjoyment, to add to the experience, to add to the base sound. Reverb and delay are the best of the best when it comes to effects. delay is the base for chorus, flange, phase, ... well you get the point.

Yep, a truck is a truck, but add some mudders, a few more horsepower, a loud exhaust.....NOW I GOT A TRUCK!!!

To put it another way....... what do you think Les Paul was doing in his garage or basement....... playing a plain old guitar......GET REAL!

Brad
 
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Dr. Vegetable said:
The human skull makes a very nice reverb chamber! :)
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True actually. Half of the sound you hear (and why your voice sounds different between you and other people/crunches while eating are amplified) is coming from vibrations in your skull. Bass frequencies travel through the skull best.
 
Re: No verb or delay??

This enforces what I thought...

There are far more folks that are consistently drenched in reverb or delay or both than not...

I just can't deal with that...to me reverb or delay is an effect and when used all the time it completely looses any impact it might have had.

nOt saying any of you guys are wrong...there is no wrong, I just wanted a baseline and got just the info I thought Id get.
 
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I use 2 amps when gigging; one dry and one with a touch of verb. Echo is just an effect for some solos only.

That being said, if you are playing in any venue that's not anechoic (look it up) you already have verb on your sound ... it's just being processed subconsciously along with everything else as part of the room's sound.
 
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This reinforces what I thought....... all of us enjoy music and making it. I am literally drenched in it. What a way to start a thread and then respond to it. Makes us all feel wonderful.....AND DRENCHED.:naughty::naughty::naughty:
 
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Really depends on the situation.... Sometimes it works.... sometimes it does not. If I am the single guitarist I tend to depend more on effects to maintain a full guitar sound.
 
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I am just into learning stuff, glad I rarely ever use my reverb except for solos, prolly should stay away from the thought of a delay pedal for live.

I use both in my recordings for certain times, but my IRs I now use have natural reverb built in cause they are recorded in a room and it is not just an EQ curve like my old podfarm recordings.
 
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Whenever I'm playing with the band and think, "Why the F is my guitar so difficult to hear?" it's usually because I forgot to switch the reverb off. I think of it in studio mixing terms - if you want something to sit further back in the mix, add reverb. I leave it off and I can hear myself better in the live mix.
 
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I like enough reverb or delay so that it makes my sound a bit fuller but not enough for anyone to really notice that it's on if that makes any sense. If it is really noticeable, then it's too much. For my lead tone I usually use a bit more delay but not a ton. I use an old Roland GP-8 with my 2:90/Triaxis rig and it actually has very good delay and chorus. I need to buy a delay pedal for smaller HT5 rig and I'm looking at Earthquake Devices Dispatch Master.

Playing dry has its upside though! Playing dry a lot with my HT5 has helped my hammer ons, pull offs and legato technique a lot. Actually overall its helped me be more precise with my picking. There's really no way to cover up and screw ups =).
 
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Mostly I'll play dry, with a bit of echo/delay added from my Deja Vu if the song requires it.
 
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