I just don't understand buses.

liquid wrote on 12/12/2005, 7:20 PM
This whole bussing thing is really confusing me. I understand the concept of bussing tracks. But i can't figure out how to get the proper volume/send levels to the busses. So lets say I have one track with a voice, and bus A. I want to send my signal to the bus. On the bus I want to maximize my verb and only send a small amout of the track signal to the bus for processing. How do I do this?
And why does my pan fader turn into a buss fader???
ahhhh
so. bus A is set to -db.
My track is off, and the bus A fader is off
I have asssinged my track to bus A
I have zero effects on my track
I turn up my track volume and hear the bus reverb effect...
so i turn it off, I turn up by buss send fader on the track, and I hear my bus reverb.
But what I want is to put my dry track signal to the level I want, and then send it to the bus for the appropriate reverb.
I just don't udersand what is happening here.
please help.

Comments

pwppch wrote on 12/12/2005, 9:42 PM
Use the bus as a send.

Better yet , create an FX bus. Set up your Reverb on this.

Route your track to either the master or sub bus.
Then select the send fader on the track for the FX send you configured.
Set the amount of the signal you want routed to the FX send. This is done from the multi-purpose fader on the Track.

You can also right click on the Send fader on the track and set it to pre or post fader.
- Pre volume (fader) sends the signal to the FX bus before any gain stages on the track.
- Post volume (fader) will include any gain stages first, including mute.

Then, set the Reverb to send out only the wet signal. (Or setthe "dry out" setting to -inf) This way the reverb will only output the processed signal with no mix of the original. You want to do this typically so that you can control the reverb mix only.

From the FX send bus, you can control the amount of signal sent into the reverb and the amount of ouput produced from the reverb. This permits you to control the over all signal of many sources being sent to the FX send bus.

Mix as desired then.

Note that you can also automate the amount of signal from the track being sent to the FX send bus by inserting an FX automation envelope.

Peter
Ben  wrote on 12/13/2005, 2:48 AM
Of course what we still need Peter... is the ability to send to the FX busses from the busses. If, for example, you've grouped a bunch of vocal tracks to a bus, and now want to send that to an existing reverb FX bus you have set up. This send would obviously be automatable, like any other track.

We're all hoping this, at least, will make Vegas 7...

Thanks

Ben