I own a couple of delay pedals (Deep Blue Delay Clone & TC Flashback) but don't use them.
When playing at home, I use Reverb to give a nice bit of ambience - to the extent that I now don't like playing without Reverb.
I know that Reverb use can be "counter productive" when playing live ( I don't Mic up my amp) in so far as you / audience either can't hear it or it "muddies" the tone.
I was playing a gig on Saturday - it was outdoors (Marquee with open sides) so the acoustic was completely "dead".
I became very aware that the sound from my amp was completely dry (reverb was off - for other technical reasons). It got me thinking about adding some delay into the signal path to give some ambience.
Trouble was - 'cause I don't use delay, I didn't even have the pedals with me to try
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So - what sort of delay settings work for this sort of thing i.e. how much delay time / how many repeats and repeat levels?
I understand that the appropriate delay time may vary according to tempo of music but in order to give some ambience. what do people here use?
When playing at home, I find the delayed sounds to be off putting - I have no interest in using delays for "The Edge" style of playing but I'm thinking that I might have to "adapt" my acceptance of a delayed tone in order to have something that sounds a little more "alive" from an audience perspective.
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I have the settings on the Arion SAD-1 (the one at the back on the right) in this pic....
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Didn't like the 2290 mode so I flipped to Analogue and set mix level low (8 o'clock) number of repeats to 2 or 3 and the delay time to about 10 o' Clock). It sounded pretty good.
If the acoustic sounds 'dead' - it is dead and will only become more so with an audience present.
I used to find a little reverb worked fine.