3 Little Questions

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What is a bus? i know the definition, but in lamens terms...i'm just not getting it. lol...

What is an Omni-out? (on a mixer)

What is a aux send (lamen's terms)?

Thanks so much!
 
Hey--
1) A Bus is an output that takes numerous channels and ouputs them as one to another source. The Higher up the line you go on mixers, they will have more and more busses.

2) Not sure, never heard of it

3) an "Aux Send" allows you to send a certain channel (or even all the channels) to another (auxillirary) source such as monitors, FX boxes, etc.

Hope this helps. anymore questions: operation_neddy@yahoo.com
 
thanks!

yeah, the Yamaha )1v has "omni-outs" and i was jsut scratching my head on it...as you can see, my terminology isn't too great, so thats why...
 
aha!

Omni-outs are pretty much what they say...

An Omni-out can be used as a stereo output, aux send, bus out outputs, etc etc...so its pretty much the all around output.

On a bus, what would one use it for in mixing? I see that an aux send is used to send a channel (s) to something such as a fx unit, compressor, etc...but what would i use the bus for? (channel sent to what?)
 
What is a bus?

A large vehicle that carries people around.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
 
This is one use of a bus.

Imagine you have a drumset perfectly mixed and panned out across 8 channels.

When you want to fade out the drums, instead of having to pull down all 8 faders and losing your magic mix, you can pull down 1 or 2 faders and you'll fade out all of the drums together, and maintain their 'mix'.

That's just one of their applications, i'm sure there's more, i just can't think of any.

R
 
Busses used in audio programs like Cool Edit Pro 2;
You have 3 vocal tracks, want the same reverb on it.
You can now assign the reverb to every track, but that takes 3 times more power than if you put the reverb on a bus you created (which goes to the same outputs as the tracks) and you send every track to that bus.
Actually, busses are there to simplify and order things.
(Is 'to order' really the opposite of 'to disorder'? (my english....))
 
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