how do you use busses??

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Hi everyone,

I am running a project studio on my pc. I use MAGIX 2005 software for my recordings. It has "busses" on the desk. I presume you can assign tracks to these to listen in monitoring??? Is that right? So that means you can get a decent mix whilst recording??? How do you do this???

I have a delta 1010LT sound card.

Any help would be very welcomed!
 
busses are used for a variety of things. many programs call them different things and many hardware mixers call them different things. Some call them busses some call them sub groups.
The actual term bus means a pathway from one place to another (kinda like a city bus that takes you from the bus stop to work). A common use for sending tracks to a bus is so that you have one fader that controls all the track. You might want to take all your drum tracks and route them to that bus so you can change the level of the overall drums without having to control 10 faders at once. Or you can add compression to the overall drum mix.
Yes you can also assign busses to send signal out an output. You could have the signal fed to two different speakers, or maybe a headphone mix, or a multitrack recorder...wherever you want sound to go. Normally, though, the signal that is fed to your main monitors comes out the Main Outs of a mixer. You should be already getting sound out of your soundcard's main outs, right...so there's really no need for you to set up another output for speakers. But if you're wanting a headphone mix to run somewhere...you can bus all your tracks that you want in the headphones to your bus track. Then assign that an output. This gives you a master control over the entire volume that's going to the headphone mix.
 
Every mixer has one buss, the main buss, or the stereo buss if it's a stereo board. A buss, whether real or in software, is where signals from individual channels are summed together. A good visual is to think of a set of vertical pipes....those are the individual channels. Now draw a pipe horizontally under the bottom of those vertical pipes...that's the main buss. Now if you connect each of the vertical pipes through a faucet into the horizontal pipe, those faucets are the faders, and the varying amounts of water from each of the vertical pipes gets summed into the one horizontal pipe.

Now there's a couple of other buss types, aux busses and sub busses. They're really the same thing, just horizontal pipes across the vertical pipes with valves to control the amount from each channel.

OK, ENOUGH with the damn pipes. In recording, Aux busses are generally used for effects sends. Sub busses are generally used for subgrouping similar channels to create a submix, like drums. These busses must be routed to somewhere. In the case of an aux send used for an effect, it would be sent to an aux out. In the case of a subgroup, it probably would get routed to the stereo buss, and the individual channels in the group would not.
Another thing you could do with busses is set up a seperate headphone mix, routing that buss to one set of outputs on your 1010, with the stereo buss going to another set of 1010 outputs for your monitors. There's really no rules to how you can use them, except to avoid setting up feedback loops.

-RD
 
WoW! Thanks guys. The help in here is superb!! I am still learning but like everything else...the more I learn the more I know! Again, thanks!
 
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chessrock said:
Generally, I'll just purchase a pass at the machine by the subway station. Usually, I'll put in about 10 bucks at a time, so that if I lose it (or it gets damaged in the washing machine), I'm not out a whole lot.

Then, I'll stand outside by one of the stops and wait for it to pull up at the curb. Then, I'll get on board, and run my card through the machine next to the driver until it deducts the proper amount.

I'll then scope out the passangers to make sure I don't choose a seat next anyone who looks like they could be nasty-smelling. If I find any hot chicks, it's a bonus. If it's all smell-looking people and no hot chicks, I'll just hold on to one of the rails and stand.

When I get close enough to my destination, I'll yank on the little cord just above the window, and tell the driver "take care," or "thanks" or something like that as I get off.
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Invaluable info, clearly presented, without the sleep-inducing pedantic tone that you usually have in your posts.
 
chessrock said:
Generally, I'll just purchase a pass at the machine by the subway station. Usually, I'll put in about 10 bucks at a time, so that if I lose it (or it gets damaged in the washing machine), I'm not out a whole lot.

Then, I'll stand outside by one of the stops and wait for it to pull up at the curb. Then, I'll get on board, and run my card through the machine next to the driver until it deducts the proper amount.

I'll then scope out the passangers to make sure I don't choose a seat next anyone who looks like they could be nasty-smelling. If I find any hot chicks, it's a bonus. If it's all smell-looking people and no hot chicks, I'll just hold on to one of the rails and stand.

When I get close enough to my destination, I'll yank on the little cord just above the window, and tell the driver "take care," or "thanks" or something like that as I get off.
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Chess - If I had known you were gonna give this concise pro answer I wouldn't have spouted all that dribble about pipes. No wonder you get all those rep points. So the passengers are a metaphore for bits, right? Man, that's deep.

-RD
 
Chess, that's the type of information people really need. I mean come on, imagine if one of us had gotten nasty-person-stink-funk on our clothes :eek:

But we need not worry about that anymore :D

Thanks
 
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