Chrisulrich
Member
Dear Anyone.
OK, I'm a noob. Dunno if this should be in the new starters bit or here, feel free to move it.
Got told to use Reverb as a send effect. So I set it up as a SEND - and immediately all the parts I'd carefully EQ'd out came back again! Checked the EQ, there was still little green lines signifying the signal was reaching it - BUT - when I changed the EQ to make sure it was working, nothing changed in the sound. When I turned off the Reverb, the EQ started working again. I tried clicking the PRE/POST fader knob on the SEND (the Reverb channel) and it didn't make any difference whatsoever - if I sent to Reverb, I lost the EQ.
So I tried other effects and discovered there seems to be a law of Nature - if you use sends, you lose inserts. Sends take over the world every time. Now this can't, surely, be always true or people wouldn't advise you to use them. And the idea of using EQ as a send is silly, you need it to be an insert on each track.
How do you STOP sends from taking over the world, so your inserts are still actually DOING things!?!
I'm using Windows XP SP3, QSE Level 2 Notation, EQium (for the EQ) and Ambience (for the Reverb). But it doesn't matter what I use, if it's a SEND it'll take over the universe and the inserts won't work.
Yours frustratedly
Chris.
OK, I'm a noob. Dunno if this should be in the new starters bit or here, feel free to move it.
Got told to use Reverb as a send effect. So I set it up as a SEND - and immediately all the parts I'd carefully EQ'd out came back again! Checked the EQ, there was still little green lines signifying the signal was reaching it - BUT - when I changed the EQ to make sure it was working, nothing changed in the sound. When I turned off the Reverb, the EQ started working again. I tried clicking the PRE/POST fader knob on the SEND (the Reverb channel) and it didn't make any difference whatsoever - if I sent to Reverb, I lost the EQ.
So I tried other effects and discovered there seems to be a law of Nature - if you use sends, you lose inserts. Sends take over the world every time. Now this can't, surely, be always true or people wouldn't advise you to use them. And the idea of using EQ as a send is silly, you need it to be an insert on each track.
How do you STOP sends from taking over the world, so your inserts are still actually DOING things!?!
I'm using Windows XP SP3, QSE Level 2 Notation, EQium (for the EQ) and Ambience (for the Reverb). But it doesn't matter what I use, if it's a SEND it'll take over the universe and the inserts won't work.
Yours frustratedly
Chris.