From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation

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Setting up an effects loop in a DAW

Setting up an effects loop in a DAW

From the course: Audio Foundations: Delay and Modulation

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Setting up an effects loop in a DAW

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Pro Tools, Logic and all DAWs make it easy to add delay to your session. Pro Tools provides a representative example. Seek out the Essential Training title for your particular DAW in the lynda.com Online Training Library for a deeper exploration of this process as it applies to you. Pro Tools provides two signal flow structures for introducing effects to your session, and both the signal flow and the nomenclature are borrowed directly from large-format analog consoles. So if you happen to recorded Led Zeppelin in the 70s, Tears for Fears in the 80s, or Pearl Jam in the 90s, then you already know what to expect. The two approaches are inserts and sends. Inserts locate the plug-in directly in the signal flow of the track, the entire track feeds the plug-in, and the plug- in output feeds right back to the track, making its way to the fader and into your mix. Inserts are an all or nothing sort of approach, you either have the effect or you don't. Insert and activate an effect on the track…

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