This 9 minute video tutorial on Sends & Returns is essentially viewing for producers and mixing engineers who might tend to shy away from using these due to confusion of send and return hookups.
Joe Albano explains the theory and application of sends and returns when mixing:
If you want to learn how to avoid more signal flow mistakes when producing audio/music the complete course can be found here in The AskAudio Academy.
10 Common Signal Flow Mistakes Course Overview
Signal flow is the journey that your sound takes from microphone (or instrument) to the final mix. Along the way, all kinds of awful things can happen that’ll degrade and sometimes destroy the quality of the audio. In this course, by our Audio Mistakes expert, Joe Albano, you learn how NOT to make those signal flow missteps that create distortion or overloads and wreak havoc on an otherwise great-sounding production.
For instance, do you know the best way to order your processors in a channel strip? Or how to best deploy audio sends and returns? What about gain-staging, like I/O and FX chain gain, where all kinds of things can go awry? Then there’s those dreaded digital overloads. These, and other things, are real signal flow issues that are explained and explored in this course.
So join Joe Albano now and learn what NOT to do when making those critical signal flow decisions. We know that, in less than an hour of study, you will master all kinds of audio optimization techniques that are sure to give clarity to all your productions.
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