Reverb vs Delay?

[Orvillain]

@James Freeman I have to be honest, for that modulated washy hall sound, I also prefer the Golden over the Fractal reverbs!

 

[david57strat]

Yeah, the whole this versus that, either/or, divisive, must be one or the other, nature of the human mind is a bad fucking habit we'd all do well to kick. Before it kicks our collective ass right out the door!

I can't even compute those kinds of questions most days. It's like asking "Do you prefer your left leg or your right?"

Exactly!

In other words, this is a soup or salad question.

 

[James Freeman]

I guess the question is what you prefer more than VS.
Both poll option is added.

 

[LemonBurst&OrangeCrush]

I love reverb's sense of space but delay is more reliably interesting, I think.

Shimmer reverb gives me the creeps.

 

[Aleksi]

I sold a few things and I'm gassing for a Strymon Dig v2, but I can't find one anywhere. It's out of stock everywhere (EU) and Thomann only carries v1 Why is the v2 unobtainium and why does that make me want it more

 

[dk_ace]

It’s a big “it depends” for me.

Most of the time I’m gigging, like 90+% now, it’s on IEMs. Reverb is hard to live without in that context. Playing an amp or floor monitor stage, I only add reverb as an effect and not really an always on thing.

As far as a noticeable part of my tone from an audience hearing a mix perspective, you’ll hear delay more often than reverb. If both are in play, they are generally in parallel.

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[la szum]

Life has made me such a contextualist. Trying to find what works best for each unique
situation, rather than imposing assumptions and beliefs onto reality just seems to be wiser to me.

For instance, reverb live --- especially inside/indoors --- can be tricky. It's reverb on reverb. For that
I find a low mix delay with minimal repeats/feedback works better.

But recording or playing direct at home and I want some added sense of space and
dimensionality you just can't get without Reverb.

I've also come to value digital delay live (not as smeary!) over analog. But I love
analog more at home and recording than digital.

I feel like everything has its place and purpose in life. The environment and the style of
music matter to me more than my own preferences.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Life has made me such a contextualist. Trying to find what works best for each unique
situation, rather than imposing assumptions and beliefs onto reality just seems to be wiser to me.

For instance, reverb live --- especially inside/indoors --- can be tricky. It's reverb on reverb. For that
I find a low mix delay with minimal repeats/feedback works better.

But recording or playing direct at home and I want some added sense of space and
dimensionality you just can't get without Reverb.

I've also come to value digital delay live (not as smeary!) over analog. But I love
analog more at home and recording than digital.

I feel like everything has its place and purpose in life. The environment and the style of
music matter to me more than my own preferences.

All good thoughts on the matter! When it comes to effects that are designed to emulate a natural environment (reverb, e.g.), my thinking is, if that environment already exists, it doesn't make much sense to add that particular artificial effect to your sound.

If I'm out on my back porch, blasting my amp and cabs at the woods, and I hear the sound coming back at me, bouncing off the trees, I don't need much of anything else. If I have 100 people standing out in the yard wearing coats, that's a different story. (And only gonna happen in my dreams!)

 

[la szum]

All good thoughts on the matter! When it comes to effects that are designed to emulate a natural environment (reverb, e.g.), my thinking is, if that environment already exists, it doesn't make much sense to add that particular artificial effect to your sound.

If I'm out on my back porch, blasting my amp and cabs at the woods, and I hear the sound coming back at me, bouncing off the trees, I don't need much of anything else. If I have 100 people standing out in the yard wearing coats, that's a different story. (And only gonna happen in my dreams!)

Talk about a convoluted Reverb!

Unless it is a special effect (spring, shimmer, deep space, black hole) then it just has never
worked for me to have a lot of Reverb live.

It's also about how the whole band is being mixed, and what is being put on the drums
and vocals, too.

Last weekend I went to a Music Festival outside and it was weird hearing the band, and then
the band bouncing back off of trees and buildings. At one point I turned my head and was
getting the band in one ear, and then like a 1 second latency reflection in my other ear from a big
brick building a full 1/4 mile away.

 

[James Freeman]

I've been playing my Strat with the Golden Reverberator together with a DD-3 for a few hours, I thing I will change my vote to Both.
A clean sound that is so beautiful that any amount of distoriton/overdrive ruins it, a bit of chorus and it's heaven.

 

[la szum]

Nice, James!

Modulated Delay + Reverb =

And we can all dial in so many variables.


Lower or higher Mix on the Delay and/or Reverb.

More or less Repeats/Feedback on the Delay.

Longer or shorter Decay on the Reverb.

It all leads to a lot of fun, if you ask me.