Whether you are using inserts as part of your normal setup every week or just to solve an occasional routing problem they add tremendously to the versatility of your audio mixing.
Mixer channel inserts.
Considering that noise will be sent to the summing mixer the auxiliary buses and insert buses it can certainly add up particularly on older mixers.
Inserts might be found on monoaural mixer inputs monoaural and stereo subgroups.
For instance one could connect a gate a compressor and an equalizer in series through the same channel s insert.
On some consoles there are switches that allow you to change the eq or at least the hi and low pass filters to come before the channel.
Mixer insert tracks audio from instruments in the channel rack should be routed to one of the insert tracks or the master.
Routing is set from the channel settings fx channel send control.
So any external gear you insert will come before the channel eq fader and pan.
Peak signal leds.
Some digital mixers allow multiple effects to be inserted virtually still others allow multiple third party plugins to be used as virtual inserts.
Connected in this way you can equalize a single channel or two channels if you wish with an additional insert cable connected to the other channel of the equalizer.
On a digital mixer you may be able to route the insert point out digitally to other points in the mixer or through the network like dante avb s link or aes 50.
If nothing is set the default destination is the master mixer track.
If you re not using a channel keep it off so that any inherent noise is controlled.
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