Delay and reverb . Series or parallel ?

[Riki1]

I'm sorting about 30 different presets out for tomorrow's gig.

I've always ran my analogue pedals into each other (series) but played about with pulling the reverb block down to the dotted line the creating a new line after my drive the joint up after the delay .

Not really sure what I'm doing , am I I just missing the delay and going around it but then I'm joining the reverb back up to the top again after the delay..

 

Should I be going Volume pedal>Distorion>split>1 to delay, 2 to after the delay> in the bottom line having a reverb and going back up to the top line ?

 

Things sound clearer this way , just looking for some quick advice as I've got 3 hours max editing time left before the gig

[jbuhajla]

I'm sorting about 30 different presets out for tomorrow's gig.

I've always ran my analogue pedals into each other (series) but played about with pulling the reverb block down to the dotted line the creating a new line after my drive the joint up after the delay .

Not really sure what I'm doing , am I I just missing the delay and going around it but then I'm joining the reverb back up to the top again after the delay..

 

Should I be going Volume pedal>Distorion>split>1 to delay, 2 to after the delay> in the bottom line having a reverb and going back up to the top line ?

 

Things sound clearer this way , just looking for some quick advice as I've got 3 hours max editing time left before the gig

That is exactly what you are doing, the reverb is "going around" the delay. There is not a right and wrong way, they are just different. When I want to have my delay repeats defined and not get washed out by the reverb, I run them in parallel. When I want a more washed out ambient type of effect, I run them in series. For even more ambient effect, I run normal reverbs and delays in series, then run Particle and Octo verbs in parallel around those. 

 

It all depends on what is appropriate for your particular piece of music.