do y’all think it is really that important to have analog drive-through? I really want a Reverb that has preset spillover and the ability to do heavier mix. The Meris Mercury X seems to fit my bill perfectly and sounds great, but I would need to get a line mixer and split the signal to really keep my analog dry-through path. It does kind of suck because the entirety of my large pedalboard has analog dry through except the meris. I have a Neunaber illumine that I love but lack of preset spillover just bothers me for some reason. I bought the meris and it doesn’t really seem to have any difference in feel when I have spillover on, but I guess I’m just feeling snobby about ADT. I was planning on running wet/dry but I’m honestly thinking of scrubbing it because I like vibrato and trem, which is kind of pointless in wet dry in my opinion because the other amp doesn’t get it unless you run the modulated signal to both (and I like trem after delay so kind of hard) . Just looking for reassurance I guess or for you to tell me I’m nuts. Thanks guys!
Analog dry through
- Thread starter huntiboo
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You're not nuts!
But sound and tone is so subjective, and we all have different levels hearing. If the Meris ticks off most of the "boxes" for you when it comes to a Reverb, I would say give it a try and listen, but do so over a period of time. I've found that to really get a true and long lasting sense of what something sounds like, you need about a week of playing around with it.
If push comes to shove, have our Micro Line Mixer that could/should help.
But sound and tone is so subjective, and we all have different levels hearing. If the Meris ticks off most of the "boxes" for you when it comes to a Reverb, I would say give it a try and listen, but do so over a period of time. I've found that to really get a true and long lasting sense of what something sounds like, you need about a week of playing around with it.
If push comes to shove, have our Micro Line Mixer that could/should help.
Analog dry was a lot more important in the past - some of the old, famous rack gear was notorious for tone suck problems, and even for stealing some dynamics and punch. Running them in parallel was really important. Newer gear should be a lot better in that regard. But, I agree with Mario - it mostly comes down to how it sounds to you.
thanks guys. When you run with a line mixer, I guess my assumption is that you miss out on a bit of the “mix levels” allowed. Meaning that if I’m running the line mixer and reverb levels equally, you can’t really get above 50% mix because nothing can remotely control the line mixer to progressively drop your “dry” signal in relation to the wet signal (unless you had something like the GFI duophony that can control line levels with exp/midi). Does this sound correct?
If so, I guess a way to somewhat correct the thing I’m missing is that you could run the wet signal at a higher level than your dry as long as it doesn’t clip your amp. Then as I asked in a previous post with the Pbc6x you could kill the output that is sending dry signal for 100% wet. Let me know if anything I’m saying sounds like I’m missing something.