So I guess everyone drenches their sound in delay now?

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I’ve grown to really like some spring for just a little size and breath in the sound.
 
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O.p. especially true if youre on a contemporary worship team-im on one and I buck the trend-I use delay sparingly- not the drenched, soaked ,washed up delay + rev so thick it sounds like a bad hyperspace pedal that didn't take its riddlelin pill that day lol.I love delay,but not like that.
 
I never thought delay for rhythm was nesessary unless you were playing rockabilly or U2 tunes. Then I saw Andy Timmons do a clinic when the Halo pedal was released and it changed my views a bit. Of couse, I'm sure it had more to do with the player.
 
Tell them you aren't looking for a "big, spacious sound" and that you want a "more close, intimate setting". "We're counting on your expertise to achieve this."
 
Findthetone1 said:
I never thought delay for rhythm was nesessary unless you were playing rockabilly or U2 tunes. Then I saw Andy Timmons do a clinic when the Halo pedal was released and it changed my views a bit. Of couse, I'm sure it had more to do with the player.
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Oh yes
 
just42dave said:
I love delay when used accordingly.
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+1

I learned a long time ago that Reb Beach uses delay between two heads in stereo to thicken things up a bit and add some smear. He keeps it on all the time. I tried it just in mono with an all analog parallel mix pedal with digital delay mixed really low 30% or so and damned if it doesn’t work great. Lately I haven’t been running any effects though, as in my experience, they can become a crutch for bad right hand habits.
 
glpg80 said:
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I learned a long time ago that Reb Beach uses delay between two heads in stereo to thicken things up a bit and add some smear. He keeps it on all the time. I tried it just in mono with an all analog parallel mix pedal with digital delay mixed really low 30% or so and damned if it doesn’t work great. Lately I haven’t been running any effects though, as in my experience, they can become a crutch for bad right hand habits.
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This is 1000% true

Having some kind of widening effect is really nice sounding, but certain ways of doing it start making your right hand lazy
 
Best tone is always dry. But, it’s fun to run a WDW setup and hear that stereo sound.
 
Someone should market a 'wet behind the ears' delay pedal. It's lowest dry setting is actually 100% wet and it just gets more pronounced after that.
 
VonBonfire said:
Especially young dudes and especially young sound dudes but even some of these old heads do it. I ask for no delay in the monitor but I can still hear the mains and it's like I'm shouting down into a cave. Then I go to a jam last night and dude's rig was like plugging my guitar into an amp in a swimming pool down in a canyon. It's like some dude who's gotta slather the mayo on his sandwich just thick pretty much ruining the sammich. Anyone else seeing this? Excess delay sucks ass.
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I personally prefer extra cowbell in my tone.......:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
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When i gig, my delay is on the entire time but set really low. Yo be honest, I do this so I can hit a boost pedal and not have to toe tap. It is not really loud so not a big deal.
 
i'm 53 and for years I never used any effects outside of a Phaser (or Flanger at various times) ... in the last year I seem to always have delays and reverbs on now ... I put it down to the fact my hands don't function as well as they use to so it means I can play less without the sound falling away hahahaha
 
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