tomtom

Just wondering if I need reverb or not. I play various sized venues and practice in my loungeroom and was considering buying a jcm800 or a jcm900(non reverb model). What is reverb actually used for in a live situatiuon. Or would I need to get a reverb pedal?????

5er driver

You probably wouldn't need reverb in a live situation depending on room chatacteristics and natural reverb, but that's up to you. Try miking one of your speakers and add some reverb at the mixer or borrow a reverb pedal and try it out during a sound check before your next gig. I use just a touch of reverb when I practice in a relatively small room at home. I've got a pedal for my non-reverb SL-X, my Twin of course has onboard reverb.

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Keefoman

Do YOU think you need reverb? It's a matter of taste and prefernces, but anyway, too much reverb will drown you guitar in a P.A live setting, so less is more!

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tomtom

What does reverb actually do for you when you are on stage or do you only use it in a small room.

st.bede

IMHO...no...no...no...(I would think that you should use foh verb if any)....

on stage it tends to smear the sound (if you are also using monitors)...if you are say in a little club then you are going to have a harder time cutting through the rest of the band...

but if you are a solo preformer or say guitar and flute and the room is pretty dead sounding (say if there are a lot of people in there) you might want to try to get some of the "ambeince" back....

but I would be very carefully setting it up and a spring verb (at least in my thoughts) is very messy...so it would sound even better to use a cheap digital verb so you can control it better...and I am not a fan of digital stuff...analoge sounds better (still but maybe not forever)

I would use a delay rather the verb but once again these are my thoughts and many people see things differently. (I would love to hear from them about thiere thoughts and experences).

(......I guess if you were doing a blues thing and wanted to have a non-distict sound, that makes if feel like it is tengantial, floating, swampy...and really say let the singer shine..you could kick up the spring verb.....this thought just came to me...I have not tried it in the real world but, niether have I had a chance for some to say "hey I do not care if people can tell what I am playing or not"...I just like to try to see how things could work in different ways...that's art right? my second thought is....I would proably pull out a tremolo for that and it would still be a distictive sound but floating)

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Webslinger

An old proverb "better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it" ....this can apply to life-preservers, handguns, fire-extinguishers, condoms, etc....and IMHO applys to reverb too!

I know some guys who hardly ever use it, but they have it when the situation calls for it. And almost every guy I know who uses a non-reverb amp, has a delay pedal strapped to the top of it. If you looked around Im sure you'll notice this too.

Yes, too much reverb doesnt sound good and feeds-back easily.
Alot of people depend too much on reverb and use it wide-open and all the time. But as was mentioned, its useful as an enhancement tool when needed.

I would probably pass-up on an amp that did not have on-board reverb.

psphill27

I would totally go with a JCM 800 or 900 for you live rig. Great amps and they hold up on "the road" well (or clubs for us little guys). I DO NOT run reverb live. If it's needed, you can mix it in at the sound board. However, I use a DSL 401 to practice with and I like to run the reverb at home since it warms my sound up a little.

st.bede

good advice

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I use the Echo setting on my Ibanez DE7 pedal...It´s allways on except when playing something extremely tight...There´s only one axe-man in the band and that´s me so I use the Echo to give my sound more depth and it sounds bigger, and is more forgiving if I screw-up....and that happens I used to have a very dry sound before, but then I saw a video on youtube of John Petrucci presenting his rigg and sounds...He use a delay to make his powerchords sound bigger. so I tried it...and it makes a hell of a difference, the songs we play gets a bigger and more "flowing" guitar sound.

The echo I´m using is not in the way of the tone...It´s allways in the background and never floats into the next chord. If you listen to the Peavey ocd blackstar.mp3 file here : https://secure.storegate.se/user/Fil...Folder=9334224
you can hear what I mean!

tomtom

Thanks for all your advice fellas, I ended up with the 100W dual reverb head anyway so its happy days knowing its there if i ever need it.