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Chapter 14

Effects

In this section we’ll cover operation of the AW2400’s internal effects.

About the Internal Effects

The AW2400 has four independent multi-effect processors built in (Effect 1–4). The internal effects can be used in the following two ways.

■Effect Sends and Returns

This method uses the mixer section’s effect “sends” and “returns”. To apply an effect to a channel the channel’s effect send controls are used to send the signal to the input of Effect 1–4 via the corresponding effect bus. The output from the effect processor used is returned to the stereo bus or bus 1/bus 2 via the corresponding effect return channel (Effect Return 1–4), and is mixed with the direct sound.

The following diagram shows the input and output signal flow for effects 1–4.

■Channel Insertion

In this case an effect is inserted into a channel’s signal path in order to apply the effect only to that channel. The effect sound is mixed with the direct channel signal within the channel itself and then sent to the stereo bus or a recorder track. Please note that an effect which has been inserted into one channel cannot be simultaneously inserted into another channel or used via the effect sends and returns.

Effects can be inserted on the following channels.

Effect 1

Effect 2

Effect 3

Effect 4

Effect bus 1

Effect bus 2

Effect bus 3

Effect bus 4

Mixer section

Effect return channel 1

Effect return channel 2

Effect return channel 3

Effect return channel 4

Input channels 1–16

Track channels 1–24

•Input channels

•Track channels

•Stereo output channel

•Bus master channels

•AUX send master channels

Effects can be inserted at any of the following three points in a channel (the diagram shows an input channel).

1Before the EQ stage (pre-EQ).

BBetween the EQ stage and fader (post-EQ pre-fader).

CAfter the fader (post-fader).

A B C

PHASE GATE EQ

ATT ON LVL PAN

HINT

•In addition to the effects provided by the four effect processors, the AW2400 provides a “Pitch Fix” function for correcting the pitch of vocal tracks. Refer to “Correcting a Vocal Track (Pitch Fix)” on page 124 for details.

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