What do you reach for that works for you most of the time....?

In my basic mix template I have:
- 2 Bricasti M7s (usually short ambience and a longer hall or whatever)
- TC M4000 gets used on vocals sometimes.
- Eventide Eclipse, Valhalla Shimmer and UA Lexicon 224 for long (and FX) verbs
- PCM-90 for old school
- UA Lex-480 and EMT-140 on plugin side get used on vocals
- Only plugin delays these days, usually a few instances of Valhalla Delay and sometimes UA EP-34 and RE201

-- Mikko

Uad verbs, soundtoys delays, a little bit of other things (Valhalla shimmer/delay), and an honourable mention for Revibe - very underrated algo verb.

I have a real 480, Rev 7, h3000, pcm70 etc here..they don’t even get turned on.

Depending on the mix I often use my TC M3000 and spend a lot of time with the predelay parameter. For delays, Dynacord Tape Delay, Lexicon PCM 41, and Eventide H3000. If (for multiple reasons) I want to keep the FX in the box, it's mostly the Eventide 2016, and Soundtoys Little plate and their delays. I like Echoboy Jr for predelay on Little plate. Echoboy and Primal Tap (A seemingly underrated delay plugin).

depends on what i'm trying to achieve and the challenge at hand so no fixed settings/pre-determined gear; different gear each has its forte in different domains but what remains constant that i have 6 different efx devices on vastly different settings available.

i'm using quantec, lex, tc, eventide, sony sampling reverb, even yamaha spx on some occasions! - all hardware here...

Al Schmitt leapwing.
Bricasti M7.
Valhalla vintage.
Sonsig

And Roland RE150 + Wavesfactory copycat + echoboy for delay.

Have others but mostly use those.

After many years of plugins I made it easy; Bricasti.

I have a pair of Effectron ADM1024 delays. They are unbalanced, and I use a Rane BX44 to interface with my balanced console.

I use two (as one stereo 'unit') as they are mono units.

They are still about my favorite delay ever.

Delays-HW- 4track tape machine, D-5000, Ibanez AD202. SW-Slate Repeater
Verbs- Garnet spring, A plate, Lustrous Plates

Im still struggling with finding the perfect reverb, but mostly end up using the BM7 impulses in the Slate Reverb Plug-in, or the UBK Gold-plate Plug-in with occasional use of Soundtoys Littleplate.

Delays though I use more than anything, and have a RE201 and Moog MF104z for mono sources, and a pair of Moog Delay 500's as a stereo Bus. I don think I've done a record without at least the Moog 500's on since I bought them 4 years ago, and my go to vocal 'verb is often the Moog's with a short repeat time in the 'long' setting as a 'sense of space' on a vocal which I've not managed to replace with a plug-in.

agreed!

Love the UAD verbs too, especially the AMS RMX16 and the 480L...which are you using mostly?

I wonder if we’d all be happier with an EMT on an aux send
The more options the more paralysis analysis

I use those two, plus the 140 plate, the Ocean Way Rooms, occasionally the EMT250, oh and of course the AKG spring is a necessity!

Bricasti M7 cross feeding two Lexicon MPX 100's in "echo" mode. The M7 feeds a stereo console module with the "width" control, that lets the user place the reverb from mono to wrap around your head.