Bussing Technique

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I am mixing a song of a live recording from school and wanted to put a high pass filter on everything except for my bass and kick to really let the lows stand out in the mix and was wondering if I should use a send on each track and bus it all to one aux and just put a high pass filter on there instead of each individual track or if this would not be the correct way of doing it. Also is putting a high pass filter on everything except for the kick and bass normal? I know there's no "right or wrong way of doing things" but there has to be some sort of standard and I guess I'll never know if I never ask.

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Martin
 
Just put a high pass filter on the tracks you want to treat . . . it's the simplest way.

Personally I don't worry about high pass filters unless there is something that really needs treatment.
 
I put them on individual tracks. And I highpass most things except bass & kick.
 
I do half and half, put all the guitars to a bus and high pass them, put all the vocals to a buss and high pass them, then high pass the drum overheads :)
 
gecko zzed said:
Just put a high pass filter on the tracks you want to treat . . . it's the simplest way.

Personally I don't worry about high pass filters unless there is something that really needs treatment.
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Word to the HPF. HP'ing nearly everything is one of the quickest routes to a mix that's just bereft of "natural" sounding low end...
 
Any processing to treat a group of track exactly the same can be done on the group bus. But if you need to adjust the tracks within the group differently, you need to apply to the individual tracks (i.e. A different frequency cutoff or slope). Also note that most (if not all) single band eq/filters take very little processing power so putting them on individual tracks is not a problem.
 
Great thanks for the all the responses! My only other question is should I be bussing the output of the track or should or should I be using a send? When I use a send and set the send level to nominal level the overall level of the music seems to get much louder.
 
I normally high pass the bass to keep it from drowning the kick.

And I usually only high pass the other tracks that seem boomy.
 
MartinQ said:
Great thanks for the all the responses! My only other question is should I be bussing the output of the track or should or should I be using a send? When I use a send and set the send level to nominal level the overall level of the music seems to get much louder.
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An AUX bus and a "group" bus are two completely different things... You AUX to something where you need an aux(iliary) copy (such as a reverb or delay) ADDED to the signal.

Of course the overall level is going to get louder if you're aux'ing to nothing - You're copying everything you're sending to the aux.
 
Massive Master said:
An AUX bus and a "group" bus are two completely different things... You AUX to something where you need an aux(iliary) copy (such as a reverb or delay) ADDED to the signal.

Of course the overall level is going to get louder if you're aux'ing to nothing - You're copying everything you're sending to the aux.
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He's basically saying buss the output
 
No, he was asking whether to use a group buss or an aux buss.
 
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