Delay and reverb are classic effects that you’ll find yourself using in almost every mix, sometimes on different tracks, but often on the same track. There are no hard and fast rules as to how you must use these effects when mixing, but here are a few tips to get you started:

In general, when you’re mixing, place your delay on one auxiliary send/bus, and your reverb on another auxiliary send/bus. Putting your time-based effects on separate buses gives you more control over how much of a given track is fed into each of them. Also, if you’d like to use the same reverb and/or delay for multiple tracks, this way you can route them all to the same aux rather than have to instantiate the same plug-ins multiple times across multiple tracks, which eats up additional DSP resources.

However, if the ‘verb or delay are integral components of a single track — the effect is part of creating the sound of that track (for example a rhythmic delay effect on that becomes part of the performance for a track) — you might want to instantiate that effect directly into an insert on that track.

Since reverb and delay often fill the same space in a mix, be sure your use of them is complementary. If you’re using a short delay to create a sense of space, it may conflict with your reverb (which is creating a different sense of space) and create a wash of mud. In that case, you might want to choose one effect or the other to use to create space on a that track. If you’re using long delays for an echo effect, make sure that the repeats don’t get lost in a thick swirl of heavy, modulated reverb.

If you use both reverb and delay on the same track, you’ll get more distinct results running the delay and reverb auxes in parallel — meaning each effect processes the source track independently and is then mixed together with the source track. If you want to use delay and reverb in series — meaning one effect feeds into the other — experiment with the order. Delay before reverb creates a longer pre-delay effect for the reverb that you may enjoy. Reverb into delay may create a wash that blurs the overall sound — delay after reverb results in adding copies of the diffuse reverb sound field, which may make the result blurry and may drown the processed signal in a muddy environment.

Ultimately, use your ears to decide what sounds best to you and what works best for your track and the final mix you are trying to achieve.

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