busses on vegas 2.0

calvin wrote on 10/30/2001, 3:39 PM

I have a bunch of good sounding tracks on 5 different busses which are equalized perfectly. When I press play it sound just the way I want. But when I save the song and open it up in my cd burning program it sounds awful. It sounds like the tracks are being saved but before they get to the busses. Aren't the busses the last stop?

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pwppch wrote on 10/31/2001, 9:08 AM

The problem you are having is that each bus is independent of the other. When Vegas mixes multiple bus projects, it simply adds the multiple buses into the final mix. It has no choice since it is unware of any external gain stages being applied to the signal.

The best thing you can do is to render out your project to multiple files (stereo or mono) and the create a new project that has each file as a track all routed to a single bus. When you render this new master project, vegas will render a what you hear is what you get.

I know, it kind a sux.

Good news is that the next version of Vegas will have a master bus that can have multiple busses routed to it for just this reason. (ACID 3 already has this.)

Peter

calvin wrote on 10/31/2001, 9:48 AM

peter, thanks very much for your time. i'll give it a try-calvin

calvin wrote on 10/31/2001, 9:49 AM

peter, thanks very much for your time. i'll give it a try-calvin

BugHead wrote on 11/2/2001, 3:15 PM

Hey, this is helpful info. Is there an issue aside from the suming gain causing distortion? I have been mixing through multiple busses and haven't heard any problems when the headroom is managed properly... I'll try the workaround and compare.

thanks,

Jesse

stakeoutstudios wrote on 11/5/2001, 6:48 AM

that's really interesting - I've not had any problems mixing to multiple busses myself, but I have a Timeworks Mastering compressor on every buss, so maybe this stops any problems with gain because the plugin will just limit anything that goes beyond it's threshold?

Jason