Bussing and such...

[Johnny Blaze]

Ok, I'm new to recording technically...I have an MBox with PTLE 6.4 and I need some answers on a couple of things.

How do I bus out two guitar tracks so that I can run the same eq on both of them at the same time? Would I just bus them to an Aux track that has the plug-in(s) on it or....?

Also, here is a track I recently did for a couple of friends. The guitarist uses a Laney GH100T head into a Marshall 1960a 4x12 cab (slant). I mic'ed his cab with a Shure SM57 on the bottom right speaker and mic'ed the top left one with a Sennheiser e609, both in the MBox. The just ran the Waves Rennaissance EQ-6 on both and messed with them to blend them. The drums were done in Drumkit From Hell 2, the drummer sat with me and we programmed them to what he plays, since I don't have the mics etc. to mic up his kit. Anyway, check out the mp3, and PLEASE tell me how to bus out tracks to do fx plugs on them, lol.

Song 1

Latah.

~JB

 

[Bulls Hit]

That sounds pretty good.
The kick drum though. It's totally devoid. I know a lot of people like that sound, but I would give it a bit more around 90 or 100.

And to bus, yeah you just click the aux1 buttons on the guitar channels, dial in how much to send, set up the effect on the aux1 channel and adjust the fader as required.

But you usually don't want to eq on an aux bus as you'll end up with a blend of eq'd and uneq'd signal. The only way to do that would to go prefader on the guitar channles, pull the channel faders to -INF and use the aux1 fader.

Usually eq is inserted into each channel as required, and the aux buses are used for effects