Yeah, I always switch back and forth between EVH Wolfgang Standards and PRS SEs, and I think SEs play a lot like SGs. You definitely notice the shift of the center of gravity to where the playing spot hangs.
It definitely helps with high gain to keep the signal cleaner. You can just blend in bits of modulation, delay, and reverb on top of your main tone, instead of having a big wash of mush.
Keeping the analog dry through also means your main tone dont get changed. Many digital units digitize the...
I actually think I would be fine without the parallel mixer most of the time, but I do prefer Delay and Reverb in parallel. I have considered just getting something like the Source Audio Collider so I can have those in parallel without all the extra mixer stuff.
I looked at many of the other solutions like the little Rolls mixer, or the RJM Micro Mixer, but I keep coming back to the fact that you have to have a way to split the send to the units, and you need a way to control the on/off of the loops because you cant put most pedals in a mute bypass...
I use a Samson SM-10 but I have also looked at both of these for more of a pedalboard setup.
There are a lot of little tiny mixers, but not many also allow you to split/send the signal to the effects units. You have to have a way to send a signal in parallel, and then bring the effects back...
I run one of my tube amps into a reactive loadbox, and then into a rack mixer with different rack effects in loops. That goes to a stereo solid state poweramp to 2 212 cabs.
The mixer gives you an easy place to control everything. Overall levels and levels to blend in each stereo effect into...
They also added batch training, so that really helps also. You could just do a bunch of captures, and then set them to train over night while you sleep.