Anyone use 'DRY OUT' on pedals?

[lefrash]

It seems quite alot of pedals out there that have an effect out and a dry out. I have two, my digitech bass synth wah, and my OC-3. Now I see the benefits of seperating out the 'dry out' from the 'effected signal', but unless I had a seperate out to the PA, or some sort of mixer at the end of the chain going into an amp, I'm struggling to think of a practical way of using these alternative outputs?

Any ideas? How do you use yours? Do you use yours?? in my smallish pedal board, I could potentially have 4 outputs running to the board! ie stereo DI from my multi FX, octave from the OC-3, and the synth from the synth wah!


Just to note too, I know that we dont NEED to use all connections, but alot of pedals seem to offer the two outputs so perhaps im missing out on something!

[elephantgrey]

If you use an effect with a dry out at (or relatively close to) the start of your chain, you can use the dry out into your tuner, so you can have that always on without having to mute your signal.

[bartelby]

Live I use the dry out on my Bass Big Muff to feed to a rig that's always overdriven. The effect out goes to a separate rig that's mainly clean, apart from when the BBM is on of course.

[iamtheelvy]

I guess these are useful if you are running two rigs, or send a completely dry feed to the PA. I've personally used a blender pedal to get clean and distorted sounds for many years, but have recently discovered that I prefer the whole signal distorted!

So no, I don't use them...

But some do use them quite creatively, even on cheaper pedals - do a search for 'Uniboss'...

[bartelby]

[quote name='iamtheelvy' timestamp='1383838446' post='2269837']
I guess these are useful if you are running two rigs, or send a completely dry feed to the PA. I've personally used a blender pedal to get clean and distorted sounds for many years, but have recently discovered that I prefer the whole signal distorted!

So no, I don't use them...

But some do use them quite creatively, even on cheaper pedals - do a search for 'Uniboss'...
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interesting...
use my B3 to high pass the signal before going into the overdriven rig. Might try it out with a chorus running too...

[Jack]

Yes, but it's an MXR M80 preamp pedal. I have used the dry out to feed either a tuner or another band's rig on several occasions.

[Left Foot]

Tuner, never thought of that, d'oh!

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I recently started using the Billy Sheehan bass drive by EBS. it has a clean loop and a dirty loop.
Essentially giving you 3 outputs to blend.
saves the hassle of lugging 2 amps around.
I only use the dry out on my Big Muff for recording purposes. The new big muff has better blend function as well as a high and low cut. Would be the perfect pedal if the put a expession input to control like a wah.