that depends. Both are pretty common. And in some of these effects can let the dry signal go through as well unprocessed so it works like a send effect.

It is just a matter of what sound you want to accomplish.

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Can flanger be a send effect? I thought it always processed the entire signal, so that it can only be used as insert fx? How is that and the same question for chorus and phaser?

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Direct effects like Flangers and Phasers can be used either as a send or insert, it only depends on how you want to use them.

You can use them as an insert if you only want them to process the whole sound. However sending effects allows you to layer them over the original sound. Hope I'm making sense.

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dunno if this helps ... some fx have a dry/wet mix option to mix the effect in with the dry (unaltered audio).

setting this to wet when its on an audio bus and feeding some signal from a send has the same result, plus it allows you to feed many signals into one effect alternatively you might not want to have any dry audio from your source so using it as an insert would be your only option. Keeping in mind flangers, phasers, etc dont take a lot of cpu so does ity really matter if you have many inserted modulation effects

like aquila said, you can use these effects as inserts or fx sends. you would want to use them as fx sends if you plan on using them for more than one instrument. for instance, a reverb for your drums. obviously, you would want to use the same reverb for all of them. however for things like synths, guitars, vocals, fx... a lot of times you may want an effect very unique to that one thing... like a huge reverb for an explosion, or a fine tuned delay for a guitar that you know you won't use on any other instrument, in which case you could just insert the effect on the instrument.

I just wanted to mention that a flanger is a tpye of phaser and also a type of chorus

edit: and chorus, reverb and delay are the same effect with different parameterization

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