I've been absent on here for a while, but finally I'm attempting in a second phase to write music, and am trying this time to create a sound similar to that of the Byrds, REM, and the early Primal Scream music. By this, I mean that jangly sound that you hear on their stuff (not currently in fashion but may become so again in the future).
Guessing that bands normally achieve this using an electric guitar, even if little distortion is used. My question is more whether any other effects are used in order to gain the sound a song by them will have. Is the jangly sound just amplified plain playing, or with reverb, distortion, delay, or another effect? And is there any layering/multiple guitars or only one track?