Finish it off by sending it to a return for modulation and reverb.įor more tips on when an insert will serve you better than a return (and vice-versa) I recommend this article by fellow iZotope writer, Nick Messitte: Aux vs. Maybe a guitar needs a little air or depth, but you’ve already got a nice EQ setting on the track you don’t want to change. Return effects excel as a final sweetening stage for audio. Want to manage a signal with distortion? Chop it with an auto-panner? Give it a chorusey eighties shimmer? Go for bold with an insert. In these cases, where processing almost overshadows the sound itself, I find inserts work better. Though we’ve told many cautionary tales on the iZotope blog about over-processing, treating sounds with a heavy hand can make them sound better-and certainly weirder. Using a return effect when an insert would do a better jobįor all this talk of return channels, it's worth mentioning there are several scenarios where an insert is a better choice. Imagine you have the same reverb plug-in on your clap, snare, and hi-hat why not send them all to a single return instead, then blend the effect into taste? This way, you save the trouble of having to adjust each insert whenever you want to make a change. A good ol’ fashioned rock mix might follow the same approach, but opt for larger reverbs to evoke a stadium-sized space.Įven in an EDM mix where naturalism isn’t all that important, return channels are useful to streamline processing and save on CPU power.
Unique spring reverbs and bouncing delays would only confuse the dimly-lit club atmosphere you’re trying to create. This makes them an ideal choice for the kinds of effects we use frequently in a mix, like reverb and delay.įor example, to achieve a natural, coherent image mixing jazz, many mixers will send guitars, vocals, and drums to the same room reverb. The key benefit of return channels is that they can be used by multiple tracks at once.
I imagine there are a few newbies reading this in the same situation-so keep reading! I saw the return channels in my DAW and even noticed them being used in YouTube tutorials. But something just didn’t click. In my production days, I only used insert effects. Not using sends and return effects at all! This article focuses on return effects and the kinds of mistakes that can happen when you route sounds to a return effect using a send, starting with. DAWs offer two ways to add effects to a mix: on a track as an insert or through an auxiliary channel called a return.
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