order of effects...

[Lomitus]

Greetings All!
I think this is the first time that I've posted to this part of the forums, so bear with me

What I basically need to know is; is there any rule of thumb about what order to run effects in? What I'm running on my masters (err... Calkwalk Pro Audio 9) is; reverb, compression, eq, BBE sonic maximzer...respectively. It seemed to make sense (to me) running the compression after the reverb...ie compress the whole mix, then the eq just for a couple of tweaks and the "800hz notch", then the BBE just to sweatin things a little....does this make sense? These are all, of course DX plugins...I've been told that Calkwalk does run the effects sequencially so it made me wonder if I'm doing it right. I'm also running pretty much the same effects in the same order on the vocal tracks as well.

Just looking for a more experienced opinion....thanks!
Jim Walczak

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Generally, time-based effects such as delays and reverbs are put into the mix via AUX routing - meaning the effects get blended without actually chaging the orignal sinal.

Compression, gates, limiters and EQ are usually placed in-line via INSERT sends/returns.... these change the nature of the original signal before it gets to the mix buss....