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by nebulae » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:49 am
There is no difference in the audio quality of send effects vs. inserting effects into each track. Essentially, the audio is processed digitally in the exact same way.
Having said that, keep in mind that with sends you add a new element - send amount. Now you can determine how much of the track you want to go into yoru send track. Furthermore, you can determine how loud your send track ought to be, and you can even route the send track to other tracks.
Therefore, you have infinitely more possibilities, which means a lot more options, more ways to reduce CPU overhead, as well as more ways to fuck up.
Since you're new to send effects, let me give you a few tips. First, always listen for muddy mixes - this is the first sign of amateur mixing...kids get send-happy. Second, watch your routing and try to "mix" the send track carefully...meaning if you use a reverb on a send track and you send several different sounds to it - try to mix the send track so that it's not overloaded. For example, if you send a snare as well as a piano to the reverb, you could be creating a lot of high end in your reverb send track, which would create an overall muddy mix. Third, make sure you go into Live preferences and untick the option that only lets you solo one track at a time...during mixing, you'll want to solo a track as well as the send to which you are sending.
Hope that helps.
