Sending signal to effects rack

[TascamJimi]

Hey folks, back again with another silly question.
I now have all 8 tracks ( sounds funny with 'only' 8 tracks nowadays ) recorded dry on my Tascam DP-02. I'd like to send them through my effects rack, basically a DBX166A > Alesis Midiverb2. Yes, I'm using 'ancient' gear but........ Anyway, the DBX is dual mono and cannot convert a mono in signal to stereo out. My question is, can I use the line outs of the DP-02 to go to the rack, then return the stereo signal ( from the Alesis ) back through the effects return ??? The other option is to just run the ( mono ? ) signal from the effects send into the DBX 166A then into the Alesis (for the stereo split) and back into the effects return . Hope this makes sense,,, it's only 7 am here and I'm hoping I'm explaining this clearly !! :O)

Jim

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Do you want to apply the effects to the whole mix or just individual tracks?

 

[TascamJimi]

@bouldersoundguy
At some point I might want to add to individual tracks, but I'm not sure you can do that w/o individual outs for each track ? I'm still ' learning' how to use this DP-02... ( I know, 20 years too late for this machine but it's new to me ! ).... Anyway.... right now I'm interested in running my entire mix through the effects . Again mostly to see and hear the process. I'm interested mostly in compressing my whole mix just to hear what it does as I've been following a lot of forums and it seems 50/50 on people compressing there entire mix vs. using a compressor while recording individual track. I purposely recorded all 8 tracks bone dry so I can really hear the difference when I start messing with effects.
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly and for any advice coming my way.

Jim

 

[FrankD77]

You could use a powered splitter ?
I'm using a JHS for my guitar rig. Don't see a reason it would not work in your situation.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

If you use the mono effects send, any panning in your mix will be lost. The reverb will be stereo, but I don't think that's what you want. The idea of using a stereo splitter might work. So send main out to effects to splitter to return and monitors. You would not want the effects return to be coming back through the main out to avoid a feedback loop. I don't know if that's possible.

You could run the mix through the effects and capture the results on a computer. Or just transfer the mix to a computer and apply compression and reverb in the box.

Typically, compression is applied at multiple stages of production. It's not either on tracks or on the mix.

 

[FrankD77]

Sometimes even multiple stages of compression in one channel