What's the difference between having a track SENT to a bus from its OUTPUT...as opposed to INSERTING a SEND to a bus?
Is it that you can have 2 INSERTED sends and therefore you can send that track to 2 different busses? AND that with INSERTING sends onto the track you can manipulate the level sent and its panning?

Is that it basically?

Is it common to leave all OUTPUTS  of each track sent to the Master Bus? Or to a bus that you DON'T want/ need to control level/ pan?

But then again...you CAN control level using the track fader if the track is sent to a bus via its OUTPUT send.

So...back to the question...INSERTING a send to a bus...is that merely useful for sending to more than one bus?

thanks

montezuma


What's the difference between having a track SENT to a bus from its OUTPUT...as opposed to INSERTING a SEND to a bus?
Is it that you can have 2 INSERTED sends and therefore you can send that track to 2 different busses? AND that with INSERTING sends onto the track you can manipulate the level sent and its panning?

Is that it basically?

Is it common to leave all OUTPUTS  of each track sent to the Master Bus? Or to a bus that you DON'T want/ need to control level/ pan?

But then again...you CAN control level using the track fader if the track is sent to a bus via its OUTPUT send.

So...back to the question...INSERTING a send to a bus...is that merely useful for sending to more than one bus?

thanks

Here's the simple answer:

Sending to an AUX (inserting a send to a bus) makes a COPY of the signal from the track.
The OUTPUT of a track is a direct destination of the signal itself.

So you can send the output of a track to the master bus, for example, but also send a "copy" of its signal to a bus for other processing.

If I send a track's output to a bus I can still control wet/ dry with that tracks fader. Is that right?

montezuma

brundlefly


If you assigned the outputs to the bus, they'd all have to be affected by the same amount, based on the wet-dry mix of the effect. 

Couldn't you change the amount by changing the tracks fader?
 
I could send a vocal, guitar and bass all to one bus via output sends...but on each of those tracks I don't have to have the fader at 0db...they can be -10db, -28db etc right?
 
So wouldn't it be that they don't have to be affected by the same amount?

 
You need to get clear that assigning a track's output to a bus is for placing a second layer of level control after the track's fader level. (so let's not call it a 'send', that's confusing things)
 
This 2nd bus primarily is used so you can group the mixed signals (mix' being each of their track fader levels) from several tracks under one control.
It is clearer (more specific) to call this a Sub Group, (or if you like a 'sub mix control).
 
This control point is in series with the track(s).
 
You could have an effect inserted in this sub mix point, but the track fader(s) would still control their total level(s) and they would all have the same wet/dry level- via the inserted 'fx's mix control.
 
A 'send (AKA 'AUXiliary Send') is adding a branch off of the track. Now that track signal is going to two places.
 
These are parallel paths.
 
The place were all the track 'sends' land is a bus- in this case an Effects Bus.
Yes it is a sub group control point as well –but of the parallel paths from each of the tracks.
 
Now we have master control points for two sub mixes. One is the main dry (sub) mix, the other an overall effects wet/dry level.

 
The Effects Bus's fader level (with say a verb set 100% wet), blended with the dry level from the Sub Group is now the overall 'reverb wet/dry control in your main mix.
And each track's send level is the 'how wet is this track'.