V-Stack

V-STACK
8 – 116 Audio effects
Using stereo sends and insert effects
Send effects are practical because you can control the dry/effect bal-
ance individually for each channel. Insert effects offer the advantage
of “chaining” effects, meaning that the output of an effect can be fur-
ther processed by another effect. If you route a channel send directly
to a group channel, this allows you to use insert effects (applied to the
group channel) much like “send effects”.
This method has several advantages:
• You can take advantage of effects with stereo inputs, since the sends will be
stereo.
If you route a stereo channel send directly to a send effect, as opposed to a group, the
send will be mono, regardless of the chosen effect.
• You can set up insert effect chains for a group, and then control how much
the individual channels are processed by this effect chain.
For example, you could have the output of a reverb sent to an EQ and then on to a
compressor. If you simply routed several channel outputs to a group and then applied
insert effects (to the group), you would have no way of controlling the dry/effect bal-
ance for the individual channels, only for the group as a whole.
An example
The following example describes how to route a stereo send to a group
with an insert effect.
The example assumes that you have access to a stereo VST Instru-
ment channel and an unused group channel in the Mixer. Proceed
as follows:
1. Open the Channel Settings for the VST Instrument channel, and route
one of the sends directly to the group channel.
As it is a stereo channel, the send will be stereo. Note that the channel itself should not
be routed to this group, only one of its sends (see page 107). The channel output rout-
ing could be any bus, or another group – it doesn’t matter.
2. Activate the send, and drag the corresponding Send level slider to a
moderate value.
The send’s “Pre fader” button should not be activated.
3. Activate an insert effect for the group channel.
Choose a typical “send effect” like reverb for this example.