ALL About RETURN Tracks & SENDS In Ableton Live - Tips For Routing, Mixing & Live Performance!

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[@sunstar1630]

Your explaination has been very helpful. Particularly liked the Room to Room to Room for the Wet and Dry Sound.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jimroberts3504]

I’ve really been struggling to understand send and returns. I get it now, your two rooms analogy makes perfect sense to me, thank you!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

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[@benetmerklin]

Me too 😇

[@treyhudson73]

Think of Sends like Wet/Dry knob and your return track as your VST. You can send all your tracks through the VST without loading up multiple instances. Saves you CPU like a Mofo The typical practice would be to turn the actual Wet/Dry on the Return track to 100% wet and adjust using your sends.

[@Karmina001]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff indeed! The two rooms analogy helped me visualizing the send and returns. Thank you!

[@NORDKeyboardGuy]

Awesome video. I use Ableton to run the whole band. I have a bass player, drummer, keyboard player, and vocalist. Me being the keyboard player/Sound guy, I mix everything off the main headphone out. I basically hear what the audience hears. I Three separate mixes for the drummer, vocalist, and bass player, and everything sounds beautiful!!!

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[@omthon5574]

Clearly explained simple,clear to understand, thx u so so much.

[@kmjansen]

I've been trying to learn routing for about a year, and this video just drove it home for me. Thank you so much for this in-depth, incredibly well-done tutorial!

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[@jenniferzuiff8517]

You're adorable. This made me understand sends and returns by the way so easily. Love the door and room example. Thank you!

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Finally a clear video on S&R's. Thank you!

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Thanks a million! You made it as clear as it should ever be, the Multiple Room example should be in Ableton Live's user manual..

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[@raycollins3229]

Brilliant! I've looked at quite a few vids regarding sends and returns - urgh!!!! Your video nailed it for me, well explained and great analogy. Thank you

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[@MikkiYoMikki]

Hi LNA! I'm starting in Ableton as a live keyboard player here in Spain but am finding it difficult to get my head around it... I'm very willing to learn because it seems extremely flexible. I've got the gist of chain selector to select different instruments on a same track but i can't seem to find a way to send different A/B sends chained to each sound on a track. The idea is to have just one ambient verb on A/B return so i can send different amounts depending on the instrument on each track. Is there a way to do this? Thank you in advance

[@DJinaShoebox]

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[@athinagorask]

Hello! Thanks for the video! I have one question: You are about to record some vocals and you have some vocal tracks (lead vocals and vocal layers) that require the same default plugins to get started. For example, you might have a standardized plugin chain like EQ, DeEsser, Compressor, Saturator, Reverb and Delay with default settings for every vocal track you produce. To save CPU, instead of inserting this plugin chain in each vocal track, people usually suggest using a Return track and inserting the plugin chain there. Then, it's advised to increase the Send level of the vocal tracks to let the audio pass through the Return track and then to the Master. However, unless the output of the vocal tracks changes from Master to Send Only, you will have double audio going through the master (the audio from the vocal tracks and the return track). You could also group the vocals and send them to the return track, which leads to the same issue but with less flexibility in the individual tracks. My question is what is the best practice in the above example, considering the need for further effects per track down the road, as well as gain staging and mixing overall? Thank you!

[@jexmartinez9343]

Thank you. This video helped me a lot.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it helped!

[@wandajames143]

If I need to turn down my mix do I also turn down the sends and returns? I have a mix without drums going in parallel compression and don’t really understand how to turn it down, or if I need to. What effect etc.. should be post and which ones pre? It’s seems parallel compressions is pre, but much confusion. I tried to connect on your web page but it doesn’t work. Thanks 🙏

[@SoniaAnastasiaaa]

What is a clip track?? 8:49

[@hollanderic]

hai, if i use the audio effects in your way at the right side (where it says reverb etc) what is the use of using an audio effect directly down under at the instrument (so i draw the effect with my mouse right near the instrument in the simpler (i think you call it that?).

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[@floral7444]

I have to watch this video plenty of times cause my memory is bad, this is so helpful! Thanks!

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[@vinodjames1079]

Awesome.. cool way of explaination. Thankyou

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Thank you for sharing 🙏

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So much fun to learn with your videos! So curious about your accent? Northern European?

[@FADY-MAALOUF]

I like the explanation, thank you !

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[@fabioalferii]

Hi LNA, thank you for your video! I have a question. I have two separated tracks with vocal choir...These tracks are set "send only" and I sent them to a return track. Now I'm trying to change the panning of the return track, but nothing happen, the tracks are always in the center. Am I missing something or this is not the way to proceed? Thank you!

[@ParthChauhanMusic]

Thanks for the explanations :)

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[@onseonthebeat]

so helpful! maybe since your explaining it through a language barrier, but this explanation makes so much more sense to me than all the explanations i’ve ever got from native english speakers! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✨

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new subscriber for you. love the way you have explained about return track. thank you

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[@Marc-nt3wt]

I liked the door analogy. It DID make sense :P

[@sunnykataria23]

Hi can you help me with send return routing on my external mixer? We can discuss commercials .

[@solatlas6490]

Great editing and clear points made, appreciate it

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[@ragingoracle6239]

Nice vid.. learned something new

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad I could help :)

[@bergspot]

Young one, thank you for your video. I had no clue about sends and return and you made it very clear through you "rooms analogy" and your sense of humour. That's a like and a sub from me. Thanks!

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[@じゃみっと]

Hooray!!! Love your work, LNA! I've got to start making use of those return tracks more!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

thanks for always for the support! and Glad you liked this one! :)

[@bbarcks]

Excelent tutorial, I have now totally understood return and sends in Ableton thanks a lot!

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I really love your videos, thank you! I'm learning these new features in ablation now for controlling sounds during a theatre show live on stage and this video has helped a lot!

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So helpful thank you!!

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[@jaylackovic8341]

I guess I'm confused... Although I understand your analogy about the two rooms, I'm not sure why you would need the sends. Or I guess what I mean to say is why do I have to tell the first room to be quiet and then have to go to the sense in order to hear it? Is it to get rid of the original dry signal? When I record vocals for hip hop, I usually have about four or five audio tracks grouped. And then in that group channel or bus, I put all the effects that I need to get the vocals to sound good. I also have return tracks set up usually with all the different types of ping pong delay so that I can send certain words or sentences to the ping pong return to get added effects. So I don't know if I'm confusing you, but if I'm able to group tracks and put effects on the group channel or bus and then send certain things to the returns, I guess I don't understand why their needs to be a send. To your defense, I am watching this video at 2:00 in the morning. Perhaps if I get some sleep and watch it again tomorrow I'll understand it better. You can choose to answer my questions if you can understand it. But I won't fault you if you don't reply. By the way though I have subscribed to your channel because I came across one of your videos explaining how to use Max for live. You made it more understandable, but Max for live still blows my mind. It seems like a lot of work and things that I'm not used to. But the point being that you were very descriptive and it felt comfortable listening to you and your explanations. On a side note, I would like to see you do a video about the Link feature and Ableton and how it works and what it actually does. Also if you have any information if you are able to link two different computers using Ableton over distance. Meaning not on the same network whereas you would have to be close to each other. I haven't seen any information regarding how to do this in real time. And for that reason it doesn't make sense to have a link feature unless the buddy I'm collaborating with is in the same room or neighbor of mine which seems kind of dumb. Anyways keep up the good work. I don't subscribe to a lot of things...

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Sends and returns are for parallel processing, which has many functions, also they are good in mixing for using one effect for multiple channels same time and they can also be used in live performance/recording sessions to create cue mixes. Hope you got some sleep in the end! :D

[@jaylackovic8341]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff I understand that, but why couldn't i just use returns or even group tracks with the group bus containing the effects.? I don't understand why a separate entity needs to be involved.

[@ezequielmartinez2042]

@@jaylackovic8341 I think with sends you could leave the FX 100% and regulate from the "knob"... with group you should enter the group and regulate the fx from the plugin itself...

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so glad to hear! Have fun streaming!

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Hi LNA, you should be a teacher. You make it fun and easy. I really like your analogy. Thanks! I am watching all your videos.

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[@j-jamferguson7317]

Hi there. I just need to know why I would use Sends and Returns when making a house/edm track?. 🙏

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Faster workflow and saves CPU :)

[@j-jamferguson7317]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff Does it make a mix sound any cleaner?

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It's so useful

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Glad you think so!

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Great room analogy! Love it

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I used to know about sends/receives but needed a quick brush up. Nice job Liina, thanks. I subscribed after the first video I watched a few evenings back as I upgraded Live 10 which I hadn't used for some time to 11 Suite and need a refresher. Best Wishes, Bruce ( Incognito :) )

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That’s awesome to hear Bruce! ☺️

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[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thanks so much for your support!! ❤️

[@gochurra5702]

Thanks a lot!

[@vegasroyal920]

I bought a new front door for my house & my sends/returns seem to work now, thanks! 😀

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Hah awesome 😄

[@JadeNazareno]

This is a very helpful info! Greetings from the Philippines!

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Awesome! So happy to hear!

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I watch your vids since two weeks and I like your way. Very nice and these faces...:) Thank you:)

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[@celvingarcia3002]

Hi thank you for this video! I have a question though.... I use send/return for reverb purposes for my vocals, doing parallel mixing on it... so my question is do I still need to volume balance the send/return track?

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thanks! Yes you can balance them out, just kinda depends on your track and if they you need more control to your FX through return tracks :)

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@@LNADoesAudioStuff ooh I see thank u so much! More videos to come! Your ableton lessons are really helping me!

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Very good:) Greetings from México

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Thanks!!

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i FINALLY UNDERSTAND

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