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| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Is this your standard chain for one track?
The answer really depends on your objectives. But, here are a few general thoughts:
- reverbs and delays are usually best used as a send effect (i.e., put on an FX bus and use sends from tracks). The reason for this is that you often want instruments to be in the same "space", so it makes sense to share the same reverbs/delays. Not to mention that it can reduce the number of CPU-heavy reverbs that you need. Of course, this is by no means a "rule", and there are often times that you'll want to use them as insert effects on a single track/part.
- the order depends on what you're trying to achieve. Do you want to add the same amount of reverb to your delayed signal AND the source? Probably not in most cases, so chaining a reverb after a delay is probably not the best choice. Taking it further, do you really want to then fatten, EQ, compress, and limit that mess as one? It's probably not something you'd want to do very often.
- I would really recommend starting to think of your projects in terms of logical groupings (i.e., using channel groups and/or buses), then figure out which chains of effects would best suit your setup. For example, if you have five background vocal parts, you can route them all to the same bus, EQ and compress them as one, use sends from that bus to FX tracks with reverb and delay. This will minimize the number of EQs, compressors, reverbs, and delays that you need (i.e., one of each plugin used) and will minimize the CPU hit from putting those same plugins on five separate tracks. You can also automate all of them at once from the bus automation lane (assuming your DAW does this). You still have the option of setting levels, panning, automation, etc. at the track level as well. Again, this depends on your objectives. |
Well, what i do (when producing trance), is make 4 busses, instrument buss wich has all the synths, pianos ect... bass buss wich has all the basses kicks and low percussions, a perc buss that has all the mid drums like claps hihats ect... and an fx buss wich has all my crahses uplifters ect... so really i should just throw a reverb on my instrument buss instead of the individual channels?
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