Send them all to a group track.
As in a bus, right? That's what I've always done, but I noticed something the other day. Usually, I'll send each drum track to a reverb dedicated to the drums. That drum verb was also set to go out the drums bus. On a few recent mixes, I wanted all the same type of reverb for most of the tracks, so I sent the drums to that main verb in these cases. That main verb was set to to go out the main output (not the drums bus out).
What I noticed was (which completely makes sense!), when I mute the drums bus, the drum reverb is still audible (even without the dry drums). It's almost the same as if I had all the drum tracks sent pre-fader to the verb unit. So when I go to turn down the drum buss fader, it's not turning down the reverb sends from each drum track. This is not a good thing.
Same goes for anything else sent to a master fader and also sent to an effects unit not affiliated with that bus.
Maybe I was just oblivious for not noticing it before?! So put it this way, I've never really used groups before (so I can turn the faders up/down for every track in a that group), but i DO now! Now I keep all my track busses (like guitars, drums, backing vox, ewtc), at the same volume all the time and just use group faders for volume adjustment, and the track busses now just to quickly mute them out for a second or to add something to the entire bus, like a drums bus compressor, etc.
Just some food for thought.
