Members guitarbilly74 Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 For years I've been using the proverbial delay+verb without even giving too much though about it. It always sounded good so why change it. But tonight I was playing with my multi-fx and came up with a dry lead tone with a touch of phaser that is just killer. Very different than my usual tone but still very cool. So what do you guys normally use on your lead tone, besides the amp gain, boost etc?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members suparsonic Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Depending on the song. I don't like to use f/x much at all unless I absolutely have to. Wah is the obvious other. Wah and octaver sounds pretty cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HKSblade1 Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Delay Rev Chorus Phaser. Mostly Delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jesse G Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Volume Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grunge782 Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 delay by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaceU4her Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 my head has chorus built in and lately i been keeping it on all the time though its pretty subtle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarbilly74 Posted January 19, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Depending on the song. I don't like to use f/x much at all unless I absolutely have to. Wah is the obvious other. Wah and octaver sounds pretty cool too. good call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theAntihero Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Wah, chorus, phaser, reverb, octave, ring mod and the all important volume. I use them all, sometimes a couple together, depending on what the song calls for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NaturalBornBoy Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Delay and a touch of flanger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tawlks Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Chorus is cool for melodic lines, all my effects are pretty subtle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tacdryver Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 If I told you, I would have to kill you...now I am going to turn my back and play, so you can't tell what I am doing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chezdon Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm a reverb junkie. I bought a delay pedal but hardly use it because I just note like the mush of notes it creates. I'm probably not using it to it's potential but I just prefer the echo of reverb. Occassionaly chorus but it's more for cleans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members missingastring Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Wah, delay, and compression. Other than reverb for clean tones, those are the only effects I give a {censored} about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tawlks Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 I feel slightly like I'm cheating for using compression, though my playing is generally pretty well volume balanced, I use compression as a boost, it's usually on for leads, depends what I'm playing though. If I'm playing metal, deffinately, blues, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members missingastring Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Barber Tone Press is the best compressor ever. It lets you blend the compressed tone w/ the dry/uncompressed signal and it sounds fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rustyshed Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Delay is the main one, sometimes Reverb if its a patch with less gain, Phaser on a few rhythm and solo tones, nice slow sweep for those chilled moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Say Ocean Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 I have maybe one traditional lead in my songs, which I use delay for. All my other stuff, since it's instrumental stuff, is kinda leads kinda rhythm and all dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeadNight Warrior Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 A filtered delay is all I use most of the time. Occasionally perhaps a chorus, leslie sim, maybe a light octave effect out front... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdMan57 Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Compression in front and Delay in effects loop [tape sim @ 420ms] with an occasional use of a wah. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members broken_sound Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 boost + Auto Volume Echo on my dl4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MojoFilter Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 That completely depends on the genre of music. Playing live? Delay, always...just to add some spatiality to the sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mcr23 Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 Barber Tone Press is the best compressor ever. It lets you blend the compressed tone w/ the dry/uncompressed signal and it sounds fantastic. I'm going to check that out FWIW I usually have very small amounts of chorus and short delay. It's barely there but it thickens up the tone IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BusterBuster Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 I like a small amount of delay and then I also use the "Pitch" effects just barely shifted. Really adds a lot of depth to your signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeid2000 Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 I was honestly never all that keen on any effects on my lead lines, but I realised they were pretty dry and didn't really fill up much space. I've started using delay now. It works well for me. I've got 3 different delay settings and I pick to suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members petejt Posted January 19, 2010 Members Share Posted January 19, 2010 For years I've been using the proverbial delay+verb without even giving too much though about it. It always sounded good so why change it. But tonight I was playing with my multi-fx and came up with a dry lead tone with a touch of phaser that is just killer. Very different than my usual tone but still very cool. So what do you guys normally use on your lead tone, besides the amp gain, boost etc?? I don't really know to be honest. Usually I like using chorusing on guitar tones, both clean and heavy rhythm crunch, although I am still refining how to get chorus to work on crunch. But for leads I am not too keen on it, it gets too 80s-sounding. I'll answer again later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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