First: many compliments on this patch -- it is absolutely STELLAR. I got kind of lost playing some Cult with this. Has that HUGE, chewy SLO sound that just Ciao Edie'd up soooo nicely. Fantastic patch! I will be playing this loud with the band on Wednesday for certain!
I got the feeling the second compressor instance, the COMP block, was there just to keep a lid on the volume a bit. And most of the volume problems were coming from running parallel blocks at less than a 100% wet mix and without using mute in for the bypass mode. Using a 100% wet mix with mute in for bypass ensure that the parallel blocks never pass dry signal. They only pass wet signal. And it's way easier to keep your volume under control if you do this. With things re-org'ed output volume was much more under control and I just bypassed the second compressor. Still feels huge here.
Also, you were running a mono chorus block after a stereo enhancer block -- not sure if you run them at the same time, but the mono chorus block sums its inputs which isn't really what you want to do with stereo enhanced signals. I moved it around a bit so you can't accidentally use them at the same time and get a weird sound. Usually I push enhancers as late as possible in the chain.
You didn't seem to want reverb on your delays. And you seemed to want to keep all the reverbs in parallel with each other and I doubted you ran both delays on at the same time, so also in parallel with each other would be great, so I re-org'ed it for that. I used the SND and RTN blocks to extend the signal chain so it all works. The REV and DLY stacking is a little awkward with all the routes, but it keeps them all in parallel and there's no reverb on delay or delay on reverb. Adjust the levels on the blocks to determine how much you hear of the REV and DLY signals in the final mix.
Picture to make it clearer, hopefully:
Again: this sounds SO GOOD. Fantastic patch man. Thanks for sharing it.
And here's the re-worked patch I did if you want it:
Hamer90's Tears
Thanks again!
