wet/dry

Wet/dry refers to the balance between the unprocessed dry signal and the processed wet signal in an effects pedal or rig¹. On many pedals, a mix or blend knob adjusts this wet/dry balance, as on delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, and octave pedals²³⁴⁵⁶. Wet/dry also describes a rig setup in which dry effects run in front of the amplifier preamp while wet effects such as delay and reverb are fed by a line out box and wired into a parallel mixer¹. Such wet/dry systems require a line-out box and a parallel mixer for the wet effects¹. Sources also use the term to describe the character of an overdrive sound, as in the wet/dry overdrive of the JAM Pedals Lucydreamer⁷.