Hear a lot about sends and returns on here and a little bit embarrassed to admit I don't use them.
I rarely if ever put reverb directly on a track. In Ableton I'll make an audio track and set the "In" to the track I want to add the effect to. I can then sidechain or automate the effect as needed, separately.
Occasionally on percussion if I have a number of these "reverb tracks" I'll group them together into what I refer to as an "percussion ambience" group.
Is this a completely awful approach? How do sends and returns work and could I be using them for a better mix or more efficiency?
Note: I produce alone a lot, so my vocabulary is kind of screwed, I just know how I refer to a lot of things in my head.
Submitted October 06, 2016 at 03:42PM by jaaronisrael https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/566yho/sends_returns_am_i_blowing_it/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, October 6, 2016