Possible dumb question here, not finding answers elsewhere.
My Axe-FX was left at the gig (have it back now) and I had the urge to play, so I dug out my backup pedalboard - Ethos, Timmy, Ecstasy, etc. I had a real hard time stopping.
What really got me was that the sound seemed to be more front and center (running a Mackie DLM8 in this case) - and the main signal chain difference between the Axe and the Ethos setup is no reverb, which I use on every Axe patch. Now I know reverb can "move" the sound further back, so to speak, but I'm not running it that hard. Delay doesn't seem to do that (the backup does have digital delay).
So I'm wondering for those of you running FRFR (we run silent stage, so no ambient guitar sound at all) - are you running reverb? Should we be running reverb? I mean unless we're going for "that" sound, which I'm not. My band is fairly large with lots of midrangey things (vocals, three keyboards, second guitar).
I just wanted to start a discussion and get some thoughts. I'm about the set up the Axe next to the Ethos board and will A/B them extensively, so I may have contributions of my own. I think I'm pretty much over the "amp in the room" sound, not sure it's serving a real purpose. Fighting words? I don't know, straighten me out.
My Axe-FX was left at the gig (have it back now) and I had the urge to play, so I dug out my backup pedalboard - Ethos, Timmy, Ecstasy, etc. I had a real hard time stopping.
What really got me was that the sound seemed to be more front and center (running a Mackie DLM8 in this case) - and the main signal chain difference between the Axe and the Ethos setup is no reverb, which I use on every Axe patch. Now I know reverb can "move" the sound further back, so to speak, but I'm not running it that hard. Delay doesn't seem to do that (the backup does have digital delay).
So I'm wondering for those of you running FRFR (we run silent stage, so no ambient guitar sound at all) - are you running reverb? Should we be running reverb? I mean unless we're going for "that" sound, which I'm not. My band is fairly large with lots of midrangey things (vocals, three keyboards, second guitar).
I just wanted to start a discussion and get some thoughts. I'm about the set up the Axe next to the Ethos board and will A/B them extensively, so I may have contributions of my own. I think I'm pretty much over the "amp in the room" sound, not sure it's serving a real purpose. Fighting words? I don't know, straighten me out.