I don’t know that I’ve come across anything official for this case, but from my experience in audio engineering, you typically want to put the most “artistic” effects early in the stack and the most “utility” effects toward the end. So in this case, if I were you, I’d put the 7.1 effect at the end since it’s not likely to change often or be adjusted.
At the end of the day, test both and if one sounds better than the other to you, go with that one.






I was able to get 16GB of DDR3 SODIMM for $50 recently, so old laptops are still affordable to upgrade at least… 🥴