Can Any Real Experts in Routing Solve This?

[Cacov]

This is the most concrete answer to the original question, step by step, easy done. It takes some time of course.

Originally Posted by reflexson

Create a master fader for each mix you want to do including the full mix. Have your full mix go to your monitor out. Select all tracks for your first alt mix, hold down shift option control and select an empty stereo bus output to those tracks. Rename that bus whatever you want to call the alt mix. Assign one of your spare master faders to that bus. Copy master processing from the main master fader to the alt mix one. Repeat for each mix. Bounce monitor out and all alt mix busses at the same time in the bounce dialog. If you have several monitor outputs that you can switch to on your monitor controller, you could use these instead of empty busses. The master fader part isn’t necessary if you don’t have any master processing to copy.only problem with this is that exclusive members of each group can’t share fx. So if you are using 1 verb for the bgvs and lead vocal, for example, you would need to duplicate the aux and have a bgv verb and lead verb.

[midnightrambler]

Originally Posted by Cacov

This is the most concrete answer to the original question, step by step, easy done. It takes some time of course.

"Select all tracks for your first alt mix, hold down shift option control and select an empty stereo bus output to those track"

This works in theory but in practice is just not worth the hassle if you have, say, 100 tracks, with even a mild amount of sub-bussing going on. The chances of you making a mistake when you come to do those assignments for the alt mixes are almost inevitable, you're bound to miss something or assign something to the wrong place.

Just my 2p

[JingleDjango]

Maybe so, but if you work it out through trial and error, strip the session down and save it as a template for future mixes then you've saved yourself work down the line.