The amount of tonal variation and control over your wet/dry rig this gives you is very powerful. If that sounds like a lot of information to digest, that’s completely understandable. In addition to these controls, we also have a mix fader which will allow you to adjust how much of your over all signal you are sending to each signal path.
In either scenario, you can reverse the signal path destinations of each option by using the reverse button found at the bottom left of the splitter module. In this instance the X-OVER FREQ will control the center point of the frequency band being sent through your first signal path, while the FREQ SPREAD control will allow you to widen or narrow that band. The second option here is BANDPASS, which allows you to send a specific range of frequency to one signal path, and the remaining frequencies to another. The X-OVER FREQ controls in this case adjust the crossover frequency, and the SPREAD control changes the slope or “Q” which will effect how much spillover there is from each band into the other. In normal mode, we are able to send the high frequencies to one signal path, and the low frequencies to the other signal path. Each mode effects the frequency controls found on the splitter in different ways. Not only can you split the signal path, but there are two different crossover modes. TH-U has some very powerful tools for this type of setup, starting with your signal splitter. Now that we’ve covered what a wet/dry rig is, and why you might want to use one, let’s talk about the implementation, specifically inside the TH-U plugin. Often the result is a much more clear and open sound than if you were processing your wet effects through one signal path. This allows you to maintain the deeper, wider, and often punchier and more dynamic qualities of your wet signal path without being processed by the same compression, amp or other limitations of your dry signal path. The intended purpose of this is to be able to process and blend your wet signal independently of what may be going on in your normal signal path.
The idea is to split your signal at some point in the chain (maybe you want this after your preamp stage, maybe before, that is entirely dependent on your end goal), and to have one signal path only contain the “dry” sounding effects and processes (amp, cabinet, compression, EQ) and the other path containing your “wet” effects and processes (delay, reverb, phase, flange, etc.). Let’s start with the concept of the wet/dry rig. Our goal is to make this process easy to understand, and answer not only the question of “how” but also the more nuanced question of “why”. Upon initially hearing the term wet/dry rig, you may be asking yourself, “What exactly IS a wet/dry rig?” Admittedly when first presented with the idea of being able to create this type of rig inside the Overloud TH-U plugin, my initial reaction was, “What is that, and why would I want to do that?” Maybe you are familiar with the process, but for those of you who are not as well versed in this topic, it can seem technical and overwhelming.