buses and sends???

[Roc]

Hey i was just wondering if ne one could try to explain to me what buses and sends are and how to use them. And also if you use eq and compression on cool edit for vocals which ones do you try to use or start out with based on presets... thanks

 

[mixsit]

A 'bus takes or collects a lot of individual things (or people) to a common place, generally with the idea of taking them somewhere else.
Easy right?

In our wold they can also be called 'sub groups or 'sub bus depending on how they're used.

You want to get used to the ideas also of the two signal path choices;

'Iin series' -all of the signal goes through it,

And 'parallel which means your doing a 'split off from the original.
Both are used in combination and in different configurations at the same time-

'Sends imply a volume control for a split off' to one of these 'sub places.

Examples- All of you signals exit your final output at the master bus -series.

Some channels assigned (series) to a sub-bus for a sub grouped common control before going to the master bus.

Some of these channels have 'Auxiliary Sends' to split off (parallel path) some of the signal to a reverb unit that is inserted (insert' is series) on an effects bus' that does master control for the verb and sends it on it's way.

Sometimes there is a master aux send' knob which qualifies it as also being a 'sub-group control.

Then a verb's own internal mix control can be set less than 100% wet in which case the verb patch is doing it's own parallel thing.. which is what you would do for wet dry control if the verb is inserted on it's own channel instead of on an 'aux/bus path with with the others.

Eq is an example where inserted' on the channel path does its 100% wet' series thing.

Find the flow diagram for your prog', re-read, after a bit it'll come.

 

[Grape]

buses let you use the same effects on multiple channels without having to add them in individually.
you just make one list, then link all the channels you want that effect to affect to it. that 'list' is a bus. you want to send your channels to that 'bus'.

i never use sends, so.. i dont know about those.
<3 Grape

 

[adamangler]

yeah what he said^ .im not up on sends but i will show you how i was shown to set them up by a engineer...btw i do rap vocals on pre made beats so im not sure how you route indsttuments, but its prolly the same

eg


Beat track 1>master output track only
vocal track 2>send to delay/reverb bus and route output to to vocal bus
overdubs track 3>send to delay/reverb bus and route output to to vocal bus
ad libs track 4>send to delay/reverb bus and route output to vocal bus
all buses route to master
then i usually eq/compress on the vocal bus and hardlimit on the master

the delay and reverb are on their own bus tracks and both route to master.

sorry i cant explain it any better. lol

i may add an echo bus as well
or more tracks

i use AA3 and its pretty simple, once you have it set up i save it as a session so all i need to do is record without settin up all the buses/sends again