No, on a console you group several recording tracks to ONE single group track and apply FX to that "grouped" track....not each individual sound (pads)

You would NOT run a wire from say each of 12 vocal tracks to 12 of the same reverb units, just stupid lol (and costly). Audio Recording 101. channel=track. If you need something individual you use the direct outs and returns on that particular track to do so. So rather than putting an effect on say pad 3 (a hi hat) I would rather be able to leave my actual hi hat pad dry (no effect, just regular hat sound when I hit that pad) but be able to add the effect to a TRACK that I may want to have the hi hat on. Get it?

That way I can have OTHER instances of the same hi hat going to different tracks with none or different levels of the effect. This is why you work many boards left to right like a book, record individual sounds on left, bounce to say 16 group tracks on right, bounce those 16 group tracks down to right even further to the stereo channel left and right. Now you have your 2 track mix. Graduated from Webster University in audio production 2004
