Regulate sound by master track or bus track?

brigitte-rasche wrote on 9/25/2017, 6:52 AM

I'm just a bit better than a bloody beginner with Vegas Pro 14 but love it and happy to learn. Have now a project with 5.1 sound and found out by the manual and tutorials how to route the five sound tracks to a bus and how to route this bus to the master track. When the the video runs the sound level jumps in both (bus A and master) into the red zone but not equal. So my questions are shall I regulate the level via master track or bus A track? And with the track envelope or rather with the mixing console?

The attached pic shows how I have arranged the mixing console.

I hope that I could explain my questions understandable, have unfortunately got no answers on the German forum.

Thanks in advance

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rraud wrote on 9/25/2017, 10:50 AM

I usually use the channel gain, (drag blue line down at the top of the channel's waveform display to attenuate), the channel volume faders and automation envelopes. You can also change the sub master's volume to the assigned tracks as well. Most of the time, I leave the master bus at unity gain. You can also add automation envelopes to the sub and master buses if so desired.

ChristoC wrote on 9/25/2017, 3:51 PM

If, as you say, "the sound level jumps in both (bus A and master) into the red zone" they are overloading, therefore you must adjust the original channels; In a digital mixer, once the signal is overloaded, turning it down afterwards (at Bus or Master) does not prevent the distortion.

brigitte-rasche wrote on 9/26/2017, 8:04 AM

rraud: I think I can't use the automation envelopes as there are so many film clips with different sound level, some taken outside with an external microphone others inside. Have made a test of the existing project with removing the bus A and just used the master channel gain, this seems to work.

Thanks for your help!

brigitte-rasche wrote on 9/26/2017, 9:00 AM

ChristoC: I think for my next project I have to adjust the sound on my camcorder to prevent the overloaded signal. Have turned this the first time from stereo to 5.1 sound so actually no experience. Have to do some sound tests as well as I think the external microphone isn't working as well as I hoped, especially in rough windy weather.

Thanks for your help!