Sorry to reply late, haven't been on here. No, it wasn't 2A being set to Host, it was set to none. I knew about the two paths. Nothing worked to shutoff the dry sound with the VST2 plugin. As mentioned, this is not an issue at all with the VST3 plugin, and so I am using the VST3 plugin. Could be something between the VST2 plugin and the older Cubase 6 version I am using, I don't know, but the VST2 plugin in my Cubase 6 always passed dry signal along as well and it does not happen with the VST3 version. Either way, I'm all set.