AUX Effects Outputs

[teraniamusic]

Just started using a mix buss with all tracks routed to it.
Question: what output for AUX effects return tracks - mix buss or output 1-2?
Thanks, Dan

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by teraniamusic

Just started using a mix buss with all tracks routed to it.
Question: what output for AUX effects return tracks - mix buss or output 1-2?
Thanks, Dan

The answer is...YES Sorry to sound silly, but both ways are valid so try both and see which works best for you Personally, since this is new to you, I suggest going a bit deeper and creating more than 1 mix bus. Maybe one for drums(with effects), a second bus for instruments and a third mix bus for vocals(with or without FX). One advantage of routing vocals separate is; you can easily feed a side-chain from the vocal bus to a compressor on your instrument bus to have the vocals ever-so-slightly make the music drop in volume to help vocals stay up front(or course, there are many other tricks, but dive into this method a little at a time so you don't chase your tail)

[teraniamusic]

Thanks Dave,
I already have a drum bus but will take your advice and use vocal & instrument buses. Still haven't got my head around Aux output; I'm thinking it should go to mix bus??
Dan

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by teraniamusic

Thanks Dave,
I already have a drum bus but will take your advice and use vocal & instrument buses. Still haven't got my head around Aux output; I'm thinking it should go to mix bus??
Dan

Here's what I do:
With tracks I can group together like drums I create a bus (actually I route directly to an aux track) that collects all the drum tracks. Then for the drums I want to use reverb on I do a send from each track to an aux track that has the reverb on it. I then create a second aux that collects the output of the first drum aux and the reverb aux. That second aux then goes to my 2-bus. That way I can change the total level of both the dry drum sound and reverb and keep their relative balance. If I didn't create that second aux to do the collection the output of the dry drum aux and reverb aux would go to the 2-bus. If you do that and change the level of the dry drum aux the balance between the reverb aux and dry drum aux changes.