OK, I am, with much trepidation going to try answering this one with the usual able backstopping from others here.
No, your guess makes sense, and I thought the same thing myself, but the send is not a diversion from the original signal path, but an additional signal path that is added to the original where the paths recombine at the master bus, or however you have your bus outputs set up. This has several results. If the output volume of your track = the send level, the resultant is twice as loud (+6DB? higher) than the track alone. In theory then, a track at -12DB with a send level of -12 DB and no gain modification in the buses would yield a resultant of -6DB total. This is idealized.
Now the confusing part comes in when you consider whether the send is pre or post-fader, and I may actually have some of the preceding wrong. If the send is pre-fader, then the output of the send is independent of the track volume which is the situation I described. If the send is post-fader, then I think the send output is relative to the track volume, so in order to have the double effect I spoke of previously, the send level would be 0DB or equal to the track output.
Someone rescue me, I think I'm muddling toward correctness, but I may have confused the issue worse.
Christopher Bartlett
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