SuperG
Bristol_Jonesey
Another useful application for sends is setting up alternative headphone mixes.
I always have a send on each sub-buss - drums, keys, guitars, vocals etc, routed to a Phones bus.
This bus doesn't go to the master bus but to a spare pair of interface outputs, in turn routed to my headphone amp.
It's easy to vary the amount of each bus in the headphones by varying the send level.
I just put one send on the master bus to go to the headphones - unless you want a phones mix that is different than your master mix, that's seems like doing it the hard way.
If I record more than one person, they usually wants to hear things a little differently (amount of reverb, backing tracks etc), hence the use for several HP busses.
I think that may have been what
Bristol_Jonesey meant (If not, sorry Colin).