ShanPeyton
Member
The thing i love about mixing my own songs is learning all kinds of new stuff everytime i sit and try to look up new stuff to try. I admit that i used to hear the term 'bus' and 'efx send' all the time and i thought why would i do that when i can just have efx on each track. Similar to how the OP mentioned how he was doing it.
That was until someone came over to look at my daw set up once and was like, "dude, why did you put reverb on every track of drums, are you mental? no wonder you cant listen to more than 20 seconds of audio at a time"
So learning is cool and this thread right here just demonstrates one of those lightbulb moment that can make the recording experience so much more fun and worth the adventure/frustration.
I offer nothing to conversation just throwing that out there.
That was until someone came over to look at my daw set up once and was like, "dude, why did you put reverb on every track of drums, are you mental? no wonder you cant listen to more than 20 seconds of audio at a time"
So learning is cool and this thread right here just demonstrates one of those lightbulb moment that can make the recording experience so much more fun and worth the adventure/frustration.
I offer nothing to conversation just throwing that out there.
Tom Hicks
Well-known member
A buss is an output path.
The main left-right output is commonly called the two buss.
An auxiliary or aux buss is an alternative output useful for group effects, headphone-monitor mixes etc.
The insert jack on an old school mixer is a buss and a return combination.
The direct out jack is a buss.
Any buss is an output and a return is an input.
Note the spelling - buss.
The main left-right output is commonly called the two buss.
An auxiliary or aux buss is an alternative output useful for group effects, headphone-monitor mixes etc.
The insert jack on an old school mixer is a buss and a return combination.
The direct out jack is a buss.
Any buss is an output and a return is an input.
Note the spelling - buss.
bouldersoundguy
Well-known member
I spell it bus because it's short for omnibus. It has to do with combining multiple signals into one, or distributing one signal to multiple places. A submix group bus is a bus even if it goes only to the main bus. It doesn't need its own output to be a bus. Insert sends aren't really buses. Direct outs, maybe they are barely buses since they split a signal two ways, internally and externally. But 99% of the time people are referring to submix buses or effects send buses.
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