Reverb sends

Sends made simple:

• Create a Stereo Aux Track.
• Insert a Reverb Plug-in on the 1st Insert.
• Assign Bus 1-2 as input to the Aux track. ...
• Create a send to Bus 1-2 (renamed “Reverb Bus” in picture) on your vocal track. ...
• Bring up the level of the send until you hear enough reverb on your vocal.

1. Should reverb be a send?
2. What are effect sends?
3. What are sends in a DAW?
4. What is the difference between sends and inserts?

Should reverb be a send?

Reverb on a send tends to be better for “natural” reverb sounds that give a subtle sense of dimension or glue a mix together. Insert reverb tends to work well for more extreme reverb effects and sound design. I've seen sessions where the same subtle reverb is copied as an insert on half the tracks in the song.

What are effect sends?

What's a send effect

Send effects are used when you have an original signal that you want to modulate, modify or process in any way without affecting the original signal. Your original signal sits there by itself unchanged but it has a separate copy being effected.

What are sends in a DAW?

A send is a knob or fader within your DAW that allows you to send varying amounts of a regular track's signal to an aux track. While the terms "aux" and "return" can be used interchangeably within one another, a send is something different. It's simply a parameter that can be adjusted.

What is the difference between sends and inserts?

An insert is like putting a plug-in directly on the track. With a send, you take the track, and you route a sort of copy of the track to an auxiliary channel, and put your effects there, on that channel.