Bandalero
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Greetings All,
I've got a wide range of high-quality gear available to me here to enable the setup of a nice wet/dry/wet rig, but I'm not confident on the best way to route or configure my four (4) rack-mounted FX units on the wet side (i.e., chorus, delay, reverb, multi-FX).
Currently, I've got the primary (tone-generating) amp reporting it's dry signal directly to a 2x12 straight off the amp's Main Outs, and I've got a Line-Out jack from that same amp that could easily be used to feed the entire (stereo) FX signal chain with a dedicated "wet" (solid state or tube) amp to a separate pair of 1x12's, but the following question invariably arises:
1) SERIAL: Should I run the single Line Out from the primary amp directly to the first of four different rack-mounted FX units and connect them to one another in serial (i.e., daisy chain) fashion, then to the 'wet' amp and speaker cabs?
Or . . .
2) PARALLEL: Should I run the Line Out from the primary amp to a Mackie Onyx-1620 Mixer with the four rack-mounted FX units connected in parallel (via the Mixer's Send/Returns), then connect the Mixer's Main Outs to the wet amp and speaker cabs?
Which of the above options is likely to provide me with the most versatile, least noisy, most professional-like arrangement? Any guidance at all from those folks with wet/dry/wet experience or from veteran studio types would be deeply appreciated.
I've got a wide range of high-quality gear available to me here to enable the setup of a nice wet/dry/wet rig, but I'm not confident on the best way to route or configure my four (4) rack-mounted FX units on the wet side (i.e., chorus, delay, reverb, multi-FX).
Currently, I've got the primary (tone-generating) amp reporting it's dry signal directly to a 2x12 straight off the amp's Main Outs, and I've got a Line-Out jack from that same amp that could easily be used to feed the entire (stereo) FX signal chain with a dedicated "wet" (solid state or tube) amp to a separate pair of 1x12's, but the following question invariably arises:
1) SERIAL: Should I run the single Line Out from the primary amp directly to the first of four different rack-mounted FX units and connect them to one another in serial (i.e., daisy chain) fashion, then to the 'wet' amp and speaker cabs?
Or . . .
2) PARALLEL: Should I run the Line Out from the primary amp to a Mackie Onyx-1620 Mixer with the four rack-mounted FX units connected in parallel (via the Mixer's Send/Returns), then connect the Mixer's Main Outs to the wet amp and speaker cabs?

Which of the above options is likely to provide me with the most versatile, least noisy, most professional-like arrangement? Any guidance at all from those folks with wet/dry/wet experience or from veteran studio types would be deeply appreciated.