Re: AUX: A Scenario and a Question
Originally Posted by
mr_es335
MMP,
...Thanks for the response. However, in any of the documentation that I read, bearing in mind that this misunderstanding may be a direct result of my ineptitude here, but I never thought that a Return was an actual audio path and have never had anyone state it as such.
At least until now.
If what you say IS true, then why does a Return have to add gain to the original audio signal at all?
Returns have always been "actual audio paths." Even in analog consoles, a return is just another type of input. Signal comes in (or is "returned" -- the context is often that the signal has been sent, processed somehow, and now is being returned) and is mixed along with the other inputs to a mix bus. All non-zero signals have a positive value that will increase the overall mix volume by some amount, notwithstanding possible phase cancellations.
The best way to make a return not add gain to the original audio signal is not to mix it in with that signal.
But what is your purpose of using the return? A typical use would be to add an effect, like reverb, to a signal -- especially in cases where you want several tracks to send to that reverb module. You would set the effect module to "full wet," so that none of the original ("dry") signal comes through the return and increases the dry signal gain at the mix bus (like what you're seeing). The return, therefore, would only contain reverberated (wet) content.
Yes -- mixing any of the original signal back into itself will increase the total gain for that signal, just as in any other signal summing scenario.
What are you trying to do via the return? Maybe it's not the way to achieve what you're after.
Last edited by Dave Labrecque; 05-25-2018 at 02:11 PM.
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