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I'm mostly non-delay at the moment but just... can't... quite... kick the slapback habit. A well set-up Scotty Moore-type sound, possibly dialled back a bit, is SUCH a nice flavour, and useful far beyond rock'n'roll '50s scenarios - it's great for anything from scronky faux jazz to fuzzy alt-country.
So, while I use a grunty, flea-scratching caveman setting, the ol' echo box is still there.
I don’t quite understand the always bit of reverb on approach for playing live as it’s completely lost, big Dick Dale levels or something a bit different like modulated reverb super fine.
I'll get serious for a minute instead of jokingly suggesting people go use an actual church if they want church style reverb seen as this joke was completely missed by some...
When I play at low volumes at home it's either through a Line 6 Pod XT using headphones or through a half stack on very low volume.
If it's the headphones, I'll add just a touch of room reverb on the Pod because the headphones sound very dead. There's absolutely no natural ambient reverb.
For pretty much every other scenario, there is natural ambient room reverb and so the reverb is switched off.
In a rehearsal room, in a live venue, in a recording studio etc...there's always natural ambient noise.
Might not be enough for some people, but it's always been enough for me. I find reverb pointless unless you're in a situation where you're bypassing paying through a speaker and therefore missing out on the rooms natural ambient reverb.
Having said that if someone likes over the top reverb or needs more to create a certain sound then crack on. I'm not your boss!
As Phil X mentioned (I think I've seen him say it myself), I've never understood people who play a large venue and don't turn the reverb down or even completely off...you do realise that your lovely reverb effects sound like complete mush now you aren't in your bedroom or rehearsal room...don't you?
I leant plenty of tips and tricks from very busy touring musicians over several years and hardly any of those guys have their reverb turned on outside a guitar solo. Some did but not many. A few have reverb pedals on their boards because those boards play all kinds of venues but in decent sized venues very little verb is used and most of the time those pedals stay switched of for the entire show. It just isn't needed!
I had had a TC Alter Ego. Never used it and sold it months later at a loss. That was my one and only venture into delay.