What reverb setting?

[mikey5]

Hi everyone I have a Hardwire RV7 I like the pedal but I find myself switching settings around on it for different songs I suppose that is a good thing. I was wondering for styles such as Hard rock through classic metal what setting should I use? The ones I like are room Plate Hall and spring. I like the extra dimension that it gives especially clean but I want to find what is just right for rock as well. I like stuff like ACDC Randy Rhoads Joe Perry etc thanks for your input

[hamfist]

FOr hard rock and metal rhythm playing, I'd say that you want no reverb, or just a tiny bit. Any significant amount will mush up all your lovely rhythms.
  Now for sustained distorted solos, it all comes down to taste. Some people use mainly delay on lead lines, others reverb, others a mix of both.

[Ratrod]

I usually have a smidge of reverb in my sound. Just enough to give it some dimension.

For old AC/DC stuff, no reverb at all.

[Antag]

My Engl has 2 FX loops, so I have a really full lush Hall Reverb with some Delay for my clean/crunch channels & no FX (except the BBE) for my high gain channels.

IMHO reverb turns mega-metal-gain to mush.  YMMV...

[Oli]

Personally, i'd go with the spring setting- i'm not a fan of plate reverbs. Most amps that have reverb will have a spring reverb anyway, so it's the most common choice.

[gwEm]

Personally, i'd go with the spring setting- i'm not a fan of plate reverbs. Most amps that have reverb will have a spring reverb anyway, so it's the most common choice.

+1  :D

[Elliot]

and I would disagree  :D

Most late 60s and early 70s hard rock used plate reverbs - also if the HardWire is like the Digitech Digiverb the spring setting is meant to give you Chantays style surf dripping reverb sound (ie.e with programmed random 'plops' ).  I play surf, so its great, but for rock the plate setting sounds better.  Minimal setting on decay, turn the EQ to the darkest setting and to me its instant 60s plate reverb sound.

[AndyR]

I kinda agree with everyone :roll:

I used to hate reverb, but nowadays nearly all of my patches in my modellor have a little "room" reverb on them - they're set like this so that they sound like the amps were in a room when I record "dry" tracks. I practice with them like this too, to get used to it (and because they sound a little more "lively" with it on anyway!)

My rule of thumb is "if you can actually hear the reverb, then it's usually too much". Of course though, I'm not often playing surf and stuff like that :lol: (so actually I kinda agree with Elliot - when it's rocknroll etc, then the old spring stuff gets dialled in...)

Any further reverb required for a song is added afterwards in the mix - depending entirely on what the track and the guitar part needs. I'm usually drawn to room and hall reverbs because I'm after a "natural" vibe of dry instruments played in a room of some sort.

If I was playing live again, I'd go for completely dry coming out of my amp and let front of house put on any reverb they feel is necessary for the band mix if the room isn't adding enough...

But that's just for the sort of music I usually play (blues, blues-rock, rock, 60-70's pop, etc) - if I was after a specific sound, all bets are off.

My advice would be to experiment, use what grabs you personally. But bear in mind that most of us when starting out put wa-ay too much reverb on! :D (And actually, I'm having to remix something at the moment, because I got over-enthusiastic with the reverbs, and I've only just realised that's why it's a spikey, mushy mess...)

[Denim n Leather]

A touch of genuine spring reverb can add tremendous amounts of depth to your tone.

Doing plate reverb correctly is very expensive, but I personally find it preferable to spring reverb.

Have fun experimenting!

[mikey5]

I messed around and I dig the Spring setting thanks to all you guys are the way and the truth. Very Helpful