dry signal

The dry signal is the unprocessed guitar signal that passes through or alongside an effect, separate from the processed wet signal¹. Effects such as phasers and choruses generate their sound by mixing this dry signal with a phase-shifted or modulated wet signal²¹³. In delays and reverbs, an analog dry signal path is often highlighted as a way to keep the original tone uncolored and uncompromised⁴⁵. Preserving the dry signal's integrity is also a design point, as in the Deluxe Memory Man, where only the feedback signal was chorused⁶. Some pedals allow the dry signal to be killed or cut entirely for fully processed sounds⁷⁸.