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Making the Most Of Your Mixer
4-3. Channel Inserts for Channel-speci
fi
c Processing
Another way to get the mixer’s signal outside the box is to use the channel inserts. The channel inserts are almost always located
before the channel fader and, when used, actually “break” the mixer’s internal signal path. Unlike the AUX sends and returns,
the channel insert only applies to the corresponding channel. Channel inserts are most commonly used for applying a dynamics
processor such as a compressor or limiter to a specific channel—although they can be used with just about any type of in/out
processor.
Channel insert jacks must be used with a special insert cable that has a TRS phone jack on one end and mono phone jacks on the
split “Y” end. One of the mono phone jacks carries the “send” signal to be fed to the input of the external processor, and the
other carries the “return” signal from the output of the processor.
Channel
Fader
When a plug is inserted into the channel insert jack, the inter-
nal signal path is interrupted and sent outside the mixer for
external processing.
Tip
Ring
Sleeve
To the INSERT I/O jack
To the input jack of the
external processor
To the output jack of
the external processor
Tip
Sleeve
