Delays before or after amp

  • Hi

    I often use a short slapback mono delay (140 ms, low or no repeats) to widen the sound.

    I wonder if I can place it before the amp section in order to save a stereo module after the amp.

    Is it negative to place a slapback delay before the amp?


    Mike

  • Nothing wrong about using it before. In a clean amp, apart from only getting mono sound, there wont be much of a difference, the thing changes after you get some overdrive or other modulations after the delay, a delay before an overdriven amp, drives the tubes harder, as a residual sound its going trough the preamp most of the time, whereas if you use it after the amp section, it only reproduces a delay of the dry guitar after driving the amp. Sometimes it makes the sound a bit muddier, but to be fair, for lead tones I love the delay before the amp, for clean atmospheric passages, I use it after the amp. Your choice really, experiment with it.

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