Wet/Dry/Wet - Where, When, Why?

ST · Sep 18th 2021

For those of you running Wet/Dry/Wet - what's your application? Where and why do you do it?

Is this for recording so you can separate the Delay and Reverb from everything else?

Do you use Wet/Dry/Wet when performing?

Background (TLDR - you can skip this unless you care how I've got things set up)

Edit: Adding this video for anyone new to the concept of Wet/Dry/Wet

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BayouTexan · Sep 21st 2021

It's a subject way over my head but I could see a wet/dry application when you want to use effects and your amp does not have an effects loop, or when you would want those effects to sound more pristine over a darker/warmer amp sound. Something like that.

I can also see an application where the guitarist needs to perform his piece with his wet signal to "zone in" the track, but the sound engineer would want to remove the wet signal and apply a common one globally to all other instruments (like global delay and verb) in a mix.

Wet/dry/wet is like whaaaaaat? I'm still confused.

musicmad · Sep 21st 2021

Typically you do it to allow the dry center sound to hit hard and heavy, while retaining a broad stereo field.

ST · Sep 21st 2021

Hi, musicmad.

Are you using W/D/W live, recording, for rehearsal, or something else?

I like to run the same setup for rehearsal and live, but I may stray from that for exploring options or just goofing around. It's lots of fun, but I don't see it being practical to scale up for a live show except, maybe an intimate solo project.

BayouTexan · Sep 21st 2021

Quote from musicmad

Typically you do it to allow the dry center sound to hit hard and heavy, while retaining a broad stereo field.

So, you would have dry on top of bass and drums or would you stereo/mono track the bass a little out from center?

musicmad · Sep 22nd 2021

This is for live and rehearsal, although I don't do it live anymore as it's not worth it.

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