Here's a little rule of thumb to keep in mind as it pertains to 'where to put the reverb or delay' in a signal chain.

You can go against this if you like but it sort of defeats the purpose of these two types of of signal processing.

Both reverb and delay are designed to 'fade away' a signal, as they both simulate acoustic environments that sound is played into.

They should be the last thing before the sound hits your speakers, to keep things sounding natural. My preference for these two is delay before reverb, with reverb being last for a particular track. Good idea to use reverb on a send just like rharv mentions.

EQ can be placed pretty much anywhere, but in general, you want to EQ individual tracks before they hit effects processing. Just think of EQ as frequency specific gain and it makes sense to put it there.

Compression/dynamics processing can be thought of as time-specific gain. It's kind of a natural placement right around where you are doing EQ - I prefer usually to put it after EQ on individual tracks.

Both EQ and Compression are intended to be full-on for the track(s) you are using them on. Generally not advised to use a send in this case.

Again, these are rules of thumb, which doesn't mean you follow them religiously.

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