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Understanding the Internal Effects (Continued)
Send-and-Return Effects
When you want to add an effect to a signal and hear both the original
signal and the effect-processed version mixed together, you'll use a
"send-and-return" effect. This would be the case, for example, when
adding reverb or delay. Neither effect would make much sense without
the original signal being audible as well.
A send-and-return effect derives
its name from the way a signal
would travel from a traditional
mixer to an external effect and
back. You would send the signal
out of the mixer to an external
effect processor, and then return
the processor's output—
containing the processed
signal—back into the mixer.
From there, you could combine
the processed version with the
original signal in the main mix,
cue mix, or on a bus you were sending to a track on a multitrack
recorder. Even in the VM-7000, with its internal effects, a signal takes
essentially the same trip into and out of a send-and-return effect.
Signals travel into internal send-and-return Effects 1-8 on its Flex
Busses. When a Flex Bus's BUS MODE is set to INT, the Flex Bus is
automatically connected to the input of the internal effect processor to
which it numerically corresponds. Flex Bus 1 is connected to FX 1's
input, Flex Bus 2 is connected to FX 2's input, and so on. If you've
installed three VS8F-2's, Flex Busses 3-8 carry signals to Effects 3-8,
respectively.
When you apply a send-and-return effect to a signal, a copy of the
Effect signal is sent on a Flex Bus into the corresponding effect, and the
effect's output is then combined with the signal in the main mix—as
shown to the left—in a cue mix, or on one or more external Flex Busses
routed to system outputs.
We've actually already used a send-and-return effect back on Page 20,
when we learned how to route signals to a Flex Bus. In a few pages
we'll review what we did now that we have a deeper understanding of
what's actually going on.
Getting Started with the VM-7000
Getting Started with the VM-7000
2796US, v1.0
Signal being sent from
mixer to effect processor
Signal being returned from
effect processor to mixer
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