scottn5388
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Hello everyone,
Say I have a bus with a stereo reverb effect on it and a hypothetical snare track. If I want reverb on the snare, I set the wet/dry setting on the effect to 100%, and send some of the snare signal to the bus. If both the track (with the dry snare track) and the bus are routed to the same output, one will hear a lovely combination of the two sounds. Yay.
Situation 1:
The send on the snare track is set to -10db and the return on the bus and the volume fader are at 0db.
Situation 2:
The send on the snare track is set to 0db, the return on the bus is set at -10db and the volume is at 0db.
Situation 3:
Send - 0db
Return - 0db
Volume - -10db
I am assuming that when I set a send level at -10db it would be the same as duplicating the track, turning it down 10db, placing the effect on it and blending it with the dry track. Is this correct?
If so, all of those situations should result in exactly the same sound?
So when people talk about putting compressors on busses, it seems silly to me to use sends and returns like this. Wouldn't it just add extra, compressed volume to the uncompressed track? Or when people mention this, are they actually rounting the entire track to a bus with a compressor on it. Right now, I usually have different compressors on all the tracks I want compression on. Disregarding CPU usage, are there any advantages to having multiple tracks running through a compressor as opposed to only the single track?
I have heard people talking about running a bass and kick drum through a compressor at the same time in hopes to have them groove a little better. Is this what they are refering to? Routing the entire kick and bass track through a bus with a compressor on it?
Another question....
Say I have a stereo reverb on a bus, and send some of that hypothetical snare track through it. Now say I pan the send 100%L (I can't think of a time when I would actually do this, but again, just hypothetical...I'm just trying to understand how it works). Why can I still hear reverberation in the right speaker very slighlty? Should I? Does that have more to do with how stereo tracks are panned?
I have read the section about busses in the SONAR manual (the software I am using), and it shows a schematic of how they are layed out. From what I gather, the pre/post setting just declares whether the audio is sent to the bus before or after the audio's volume is affected. I have played around with both settings for a while and still don't really understand what is happening. Would someone care to explain this briefly? When would you use pre over post or vice versa?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Scott
Say I have a bus with a stereo reverb effect on it and a hypothetical snare track. If I want reverb on the snare, I set the wet/dry setting on the effect to 100%, and send some of the snare signal to the bus. If both the track (with the dry snare track) and the bus are routed to the same output, one will hear a lovely combination of the two sounds. Yay.
Situation 1:
The send on the snare track is set to -10db and the return on the bus and the volume fader are at 0db.
Situation 2:
The send on the snare track is set to 0db, the return on the bus is set at -10db and the volume is at 0db.
Situation 3:
Send - 0db
Return - 0db
Volume - -10db
I am assuming that when I set a send level at -10db it would be the same as duplicating the track, turning it down 10db, placing the effect on it and blending it with the dry track. Is this correct?
If so, all of those situations should result in exactly the same sound?
So when people talk about putting compressors on busses, it seems silly to me to use sends and returns like this. Wouldn't it just add extra, compressed volume to the uncompressed track? Or when people mention this, are they actually rounting the entire track to a bus with a compressor on it. Right now, I usually have different compressors on all the tracks I want compression on. Disregarding CPU usage, are there any advantages to having multiple tracks running through a compressor as opposed to only the single track?
I have heard people talking about running a bass and kick drum through a compressor at the same time in hopes to have them groove a little better. Is this what they are refering to? Routing the entire kick and bass track through a bus with a compressor on it?
Another question....
Say I have a stereo reverb on a bus, and send some of that hypothetical snare track through it. Now say I pan the send 100%L (I can't think of a time when I would actually do this, but again, just hypothetical...I'm just trying to understand how it works). Why can I still hear reverberation in the right speaker very slighlty? Should I? Does that have more to do with how stereo tracks are panned?
I have read the section about busses in the SONAR manual (the software I am using), and it shows a schematic of how they are layed out. From what I gather, the pre/post setting just declares whether the audio is sent to the bus before or after the audio's volume is affected. I have played around with both settings for a while and still don't really understand what is happening. Would someone care to explain this briefly? When would you use pre over post or vice versa?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Scott