Hi guys,
this is gonna sound nerdish, it's gonna sound naive......I don't understand the reasoning behind this things, if there's any. Please enlighthen me.
Since dawn of time I was told to put reverbs (flangers, dealys etc...) on a send, similarly I was told to put Eq, Comp, Distortion etc.... on insert.
They told me to put on the channel insert only things that affect dynamics.
Many times they brought a guitar effect chain as an example: if you put your reverb on the amp input the result is gonna be awkward, it's much better to have the reverb on the loop FX (send).
The thing is that putting reverbs on the channel insert in a DAW wouldn't sound as bad as the guitar example. Actually, sometimes the only way for me to get the sound I have in mind is to use the reverb and then compress/eq the whole signal (dry+wet).
With the guitar I guess it would be simply awkward to route a wet sound into the amp saturation, the reverb would be before the distortion........but can you please tell me what happens on a DAW channel? Reverb on the insert would be before what?
Why can't I compress the dry+wet sound just as I would compress the sound of a distant mic?
Best regards
Francesco
Francesco