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Originally Posted by Ricey  in my case i decided against inserts because they are post-gain on my desk. |
?? Can't think of a desk where the gain isn't first, i.e. everything including the insert is post gain...
......which is your main difference here as well....makes for a different scenario having the channel gain before your inserted box. Whether better/worse or irrelevant would depend on what you're trying to do. If you go straight in, no inserts, you e.g. can't burn up the input stage on purpose and then compress the result. Basically only you know what you want to do here. Most likely straight in will do most of what you need. Wouldn't worry about a quality problem, you just end up with a slightly different gain structure puzzle/set of options.