Echo Wet or Dry????

[Zaanse Shadow]

Hi All,

I use a internal Wave for an echo in Cubase , but I wonder about the Dry/Wet knob.

I had always the Wet on 25% but, when I switched yesterday till Dry, the sound is more "Shadowy".

My question is; What is done for Shadows-music, wet for a percentage or dry on the Echo??


Cheers and thanks

Fred/Zaanse Shadow

[Garystrat]

Hi Fred

These are two separate paths within the plug-in/pedal (if has them) and can be blended with one another to get the best balance/level of the effect.

The dry is the level of the original single that comes through, this has nothing of the designated effect in the signal path, so if you had dry right up and wet right down there would be no echo.

Likewise, if you turned the wet right up and dry off the whole signal is going through the echo effect. It follows that if you turn both right off nothing will come through.

So say you just wanted just a little echo, but not a full on effect, you could leave the dry fully up and use the wet to blend the amount of effect (echo in this case) into the dry signal.

Think of them as being hot and cold running water going through a mixer tap and turning each on to get the correct temperature!

Hope this helps

Gary

[Zaanse Shadow]

Hi Gary,

If I understand correctly what you are saying in your message because you where talking about 2 knobs, one for wet, one for dry.
But what about 1 knob for both options?? I have only one knob and I moved the knob to 0, dry I suspect.
The sound I.m getting now is more Shadowy then I moved it to 9 o clock.

Thank you for your reaction and I hope you can futher explain it to me when I.m wrong

Fred

[dave robinson]

It really is as simple as this. Dry is with NO echo, Wet is with echo and the control blends the wet in with the dry as you increase it, until you get to the other end of the scale when all you hear is Wet (echo).

[Zaanse Shadow]

Thank you Dave its clear to me

I wish you and Gary both a Merry Cristmas and thank you for your help

Bye

fred