Terminology For Idiots.

[MatchBookNotes]

ello,
I am playing with guitar rig 3 and want to know what is meant by "Wet-Dry" and "Dry-Air" on the matched cabinets and some of the effects plugins.
thanks.

 

[Monkey Allen]

Well think about it like this...if you plug a guitar into an amp and play it totally clean/ no distortion or reverb...that's a dry signal. A wet signal would be when it is drenched in reverb or distortion or any other effect.

When you adjust the dry/ wet you adjust how much of it you want to remain clean/ dry and how much of it you want to effect/ make wet.

Dry/ air...I don't really know.

 

[Roguetitan]

Well think about it like this...if you plug a guitar into an amp and play it totally clean/ no distortion or reverb...that's a dry signal. A wet signal would be when it is drenched in reverb or distortion or any other effect.

When you adjust the dry/ wet you adjust how much of it you want to remain clean/ dry and how much of it you want to effect/ make wet.

Dry/ air...I don't really know.

that was my thoughts too but not sure about the air thing either

 

[BrentDomann]

IIRC, "Air" in one of the popular guitar modeling plugins is supposed to model the sound of micing a cab. That is, it's not a cab modeler or a mic modeler, but does something else. I found an online copy of the GR3 manual, and it says that "air" control adjusts early reflections. If I understand this correctly, it adjusts the modeled distance between the mic that's "on the amp" and a reflective wall.