DAW TIP: Create Aux and Send Effects Templates

If your DAW lets you save channel strips with your favorite effects pre-loaded, be sure to save all your preferred effects as separate auxiliary channel strips, so that you can load them as many times as you want into as many projects as you want. For example, if you have a favorite EQ and a couple of dynamics processors you like to use on guitars, save them as a Guitar Aux. If you like to use a send to bus your Guitar Aux to a particular series of processors, also save that as a Guitar Processor Aux. Do this for all the Aux tracks and send Auxes you use, so you can easily access them in any project. This will not just save you time, but allow you to get right down to being creative.